JF-17/FC-1 Fighter Aircraft thread

[SteelBird]

What happened to Popeye?

Well, you must have been absent for a long time. Check this thread: Announcements - I'm fininshed with this forum

 

[Miragedriver]

What happened to Popeye?

He has decided to leave SD forum
http://www.sinodefenceforum.com/members-club-room/popeye-says-good-bye-7092.html

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I will now get back to bottling my Malbec

 

[asif iqbal]

A new weapon has been unveiled at airshow

It's called GB-6 bomb

 

[lcloo]

According to an interview with a high ranking PAF official at the Zhuhai airshow, the next batch of JF-17 will start to appear next month. He said there are many changes made and new weapons added. He did not specifically said it is block 2.

He also said PAF pilots have flow J-10 and inspected J-20.

 

[Aeronaut]

GB-6 = JSOW. This is a huge capability boost to JF-17s especially on top of Hafr-4 and Raad SOW integration.

 

[FORBIN]

JF-17 Block-II have a more big useful load ?

 

[asif iqbal]

JF-17 Block-II have a more big useful load ?

Yes more and heavier all the better

 

[asif iqbal]

Might have posted this animation before

Would like to see ZDK-03, JF-17 Block II and a Midas tanker up there doing a excercise with PLAAF J10B, KJ-500 and a Y-20 tanker now THAT would be outstanding

 

[Franklin]

China just singed a contract with the Russians to buy 100 more upgraded RD-93 engines.

Airshow China 2014: Russia to supply China with more RD-93 turbofans

Russia is to supply China with an additional batch of 100 Klimov RD-93 turbofan engines for the FC-1/JF-17 Thunder combat aircraft before the end of 2016, officials said at Airshow China 2014 in Zhuhai.

The contract, signed between Rosoboronexport and Chinese officials, follows an original USD238 million contract for 100 engines concluded in 2005 and completed in 2010.

A joint venture between China and Pakistan, the JF-17 is currently only in Pakistan Air Force service.

The first contract for 100 RD-93s had an option for 400 more, which will be produced by Moscow-based machine-building plant Chernyshev, a division of the United Engines Corporation (UEC).

At Airshow China a high-ranking official in the Russian deputation confirmed that the fifth-generation Shenyang J-31/FC-31 is also equipped with the RD-93.

A UEC official also told IHS Jane's that the Russian company and the China National Aero-Technology Import and Export Corporation (CATIC) had signed an agreement to upgrade the RD-93. The agreement "comprises consecutive modernisation of the propulsion system in the area of increasing thrust and the arranging of the turbofans shipments to China", said the UEC official.

He did not specify when China would start to receive the upgraded RD-93. Under UEC's existing contract with CATIC the Russian company is to perform deliveries, designer supervision, maintenance, refurbishment, and assistance in organising the RD-93 overhaul for basic and export FC-1/JF-17 fighters.

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[asif iqbal]

Very nice! I wonder what the "upgrade" is