Would have preferred J-31 or J-25 or anything else than J-35A, I don't know why they choose that number.Ascending with full afterburners.
J-35A fighter (PLAAF) + FC-31 thread
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To troll stupid Americans who think every CN weapon system is a copy of a US system?
They are putting fuel on the fire.... that's trolling masterclass.
It's the first modified variant (J-35A) of the naval variant (J-35) of the initial airframe (J-31). The naming logically makes sense.
They could have called it J-36 in line with the J-16, but they probably thought J-35A makes it easier to market this fighter internationally.
I think naming it with a numeric 35 was on purpose. It would force a side by side comparison between these two similarly named planes and people can see for themselves and come to their own conclusion how much differences there are. And after such exercise I think some would conclude that the "J" is more 35 than the "F".
J-15 was a naval variant derived from J-11, so the carrier version of J-31 would naturally be the J-35: there is no intention here.
J-21 was probably the internal name given for SAC's rival project to the J-20 that lost out.
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J-15 got the number 15 has nothing to do with being from J-11. In reality J-11 is reused number from an earlier cancelled program (old J-11). There were also other cancelled programs up to J-13. All of them have photos of either prototypes or wind tunnel models. I can not find any photo of J-14. But it seems that up to the time right before J-20, PLA was following a sequencial number scheme to designate their aircraft programs, some numbers would be dropped after program cancellation (J-9, 12, 13), some numbers are reused such as J-10, J-11. Assuming J-14 exists, J-15 is just the next available number to use. J-16 just follows naturally.
There is nothing natural or logic. Everything changed into chaos and illogic since J-20 which skipped from 17. We can try to make sense by thinking of 20 as a new era and generation, but then FC-31 is just crazy jumping into another era in the future. And that is not enough AVIC (or is it really PLA?) decided to leap the numbers to 35. Clearly there is no numbering scheme, if there is no intention, AVIC/PLA must be throwing dice to determin their numbers.
J belongs to PLA not SAC and AVIC. AVIC can name their own program whatever they want, but J is a PLA thing. Just like ATF is program name but the aircrafts got the F designation only after they are orderred to be constructed by USAF. BTW, from the begining it was FC-31, there was never 21. FC-31 follows the same pattern as FC-1 aka JF-17, the number 31 isn't in the sequence of PLA.