J-15 carrier fighter thread

sheogorath

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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

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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.
 
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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

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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.
 

Schwerter_

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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.
Never heard that old flankers in the 80s also had laser warning receivers but okay?

edit: having looked at a few additional photos I’m reasonably sure that for many (if not all) variants that have them, the triangular piece is one solid piece of metal, so pretty unlikely for it to be a laser warning receiver imo

edit2: I’m an idiot and can’t read
 

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Wrought

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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.

What are you talking about? You are the crazy one for thinking this is a new pattern.
  • J-16D for 电子
  • J-11BH for 海軍
  • J-10S for 双人
 

sheogorath

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Never heard that old flankers in the 80s also had laser warning receivers but okay?

edit: having looked at a few additional photos I’m reasonably sure that for many (if not all) variants that have them, the triangular piece is one solid piece of metal, so pretty unlikely for it to be a laser warning receiver imo
Thats what I meant, it isn't a LWR but just a deflector to prevent stuff from hitting the IRST
 

by78

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J-15T folding her wings.

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