J-15 carrier fighter thread

[sheogorath]

I would take that statement with a pinch of salt until we see proof that the foreplanes are indeed individually movable, but yeah the old J-15 (and indeed every other flanker with foreplanes I think) have them not individually movable. Indeed I believe that during normal flight, which means excluding takeoff and landing, the foreplanes act more or less like a windvane, maintaining 0 degrees AoA with incoming flow to the best of its ability.

Pretty much, yeah. The idea of the canards in the Flankers is to help keep air flowing over the lifting body in most instances. There might be some slight difference in deflection angle between canards but not by much.

 

[taxiya]

I know what T stands for, I just think using names such as J15T and J35 as the official names is something a troll would do.

Maybe I found the problem, both names are given by PLAN (Carrier version J35 exist first).

PLAN's trolling, confirmed (LMAO)

In a more serious tone, it seems that J15T is breaking away from known naming scheme where latin letter at the end usually means variant or upgrade and is consecutive. T here stands for "Tan She" which is function designition, it is usually placed ahead of type number, such as QBZ-191, YY-20. It is as if PLAAF renamed YY-20 to Y-20Y.

[addition], J-15 is catapulted, T stands for catapult, what is the necessity of adding a T? It is as if AVIC is going to develop a J-15 airforce variant?

PLA as a whole also seems to break their rules. We know that an aircraft program will get a J number even if it never got into service, that is why there are gaps. There is no J-31 but J-35(A), but there can not be 25 cancelled or in-development programs from J-20 to J-35.

It seems that whole PLA went nuts and throw their naming regulation into the trash bin. If I can not refute CCTV statement, then I have to reason that PLA must be crazy.

 

[Schwerter_]

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I think the triangular prism in front of the IRST is the laser warning receiver. Any idea what the red circle is?

Not sure if it’s actually a laser warning receiver, iirc it’s there for most flanker variants and from what I’ve read I think it’s something like a wind breaker for the round irst to reduce drag, but I could be very much mistaken

 

[sheogorath]

Not sure if it’s actually a laser warning receiver, iirc it’s there for most flanker variants and from what I’ve read I think it’s something like a wind breaker for the round irst to reduce drag, but I could be very much mistaken

Thats what it is, and also helps deflect debris from sliding up the nose and hitting the IRST. Almost all Flankers have it except for the Su-35, that has different aerodynamics in the area due to the bigger nose.