J-20 5th Gen Fighter Thread VIII

[ACuriousPLAFan]

Any idea which unit?

Said to be at Korla.

 

[Deino]

Said to be at Korla.

Indeed

 

[TK3600]

I think that depends entirely on the type of weapon in question. For land based systems like tanks, IFVs, artillery, that’s entirely plausible if not understated, but I don’t think the ratio would be that high for top-end assets like heavy fighters and heavy warships etc.

I think one additional factor to consider for what peak production might look like for fighters is to look at the existing pilot to aircraft ratio. Because fighters are useless without pilots, and pilots are by far the bigger bottleneck to rapid and massive fleet expansion.

If the pilot to plane ration is 2-1, then I think it would be safe to assume that peacetime production rate is around 50%.

I know that with ejection seats, you would expect a reasonable percentage of pilots to survive shoot downs to be able to go back into rotation. But you also need to consider the potential delay with new pilots coming online, and I don’t think you want to be in a situation with significantly more planes than pilots in a peer v peer fight, since a large build up of such high value assets being stationary for too long would make for obvious targets for opfor that could result in significant damage if they can hit them.

Obviously there are a ton of other factors to consider, but I think this would be a reasonable ballpark figure on balance without doing a dissertation level analysis.

Not unless there is also a 'unmobilized pilot production capacity'. For all we know training school could train 2x faster to match 2x faster planes. Perhaps school instructors can train 10 per class, but only do 5 in peace. Or the instructor assistant had competency to promote into instructor you get 2x the instructors. You know what I mean.

 

[defenceman]

Not unless there is also a 'unmobilized pilot production capacity'. For all we know training school could train 2x faster to match 2x faster planes. Perhaps school instructors can train 10 per class, but only do 5 in peace. Or the instructor assistant had competency to promote into instructor you get 2x the instructors. You know what I mean.

Hi,
is there a possibility for retiring somewhat late, may be the very first or second batch
of J20 pilots if they are eligible to retire now may be a little late of around 4/5 years of
timeline can help the new ones to reach to the certain level of competency
thank you

 

[by78]

15x J-20s performing elephant walk at a certain airbase in the WTC. Posted by @拓跋尊 and @沉默的山羊 on Weibo.

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A flight of 7x J-20s in formation, somewhere in the WTC. Posted by @沉默的山羊 on Weibo.

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Aren't these screenshots of old footage from last year or two years ago?

 

[by78]

Re-posting a lost image.