New Chinese "F-X" single-engine fighter?
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SinoSoldier
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If the J-15 was already a technology demonstrator and SAC is building a successor, then why are they still doing flight tests with the J-15? Why are they putting J-15s on a land ski jump? Building a 5th-generation fighter will be risky, and I'm pretty sure the J-15 costs more than just a couple of million bucks. They wouldn't flush that down the toilet.
The J-11B is actually a very formidable fighter, since it uses the higher end of Chinese technology and a Russian airframe. It is about 8 times stealthier than a conventional Flanker (3 m, so it's pretty much stealth to long-range radar), can carry more weapons, has more powerful engines (and greater maneuverability & climb rate), and is slotted to incorporate AESA. It's a true 4.5-generation fighter.
Up until the J-10B in December 2008, it was the most advanced fighter jet in China.
If you ask me, it's Chengdu that's wasting money, with the J-10B that may never even enter service.
You just said that 70092's predictions are unreliable in your previous posts, when he mentioned that SAC will be building a 5th-generation fighter-bomber set to fly in 2011.
And are you seriously relying on forum members for your intelligence?
I said that the J-14 may be or may not be used. It was reported many times to be the designation of one of the J-XX planes. Maybe, maybe not.
The fuselage will be widened, but a complete redesign would be unnecessary. Even if they decided to incorporate a large bay, developing a successor would only take a couple of years.
The JF-17 is large enough for a small bay. As I said, even the Q-5 had a bay.
When did I say J-15 was a tech demonstrator -- my post clearly made out J-15 to be a fully fledged plane for production, and the design and production of which will give SAC and Chinese aerospace in general, greater experience in future naval aviation.
Aside from the aspect of experience, the PLANAF will have the need for carrier fighters, and probably won't be willing to wait the extra years for a 5th generation fighter when they're not even familiar with any fixed wing operations from flight decks.
I'm not even going to try and reply to this.
We don't know that. And the technologies on the J-10B will assist future J-10 variants and probably accelerated development of J-20 in terms of some electronics.
I don't remember what I said exactly, but I know I didn't say in black and white that he was unreliable, just that not all of his predictions have come true in regards to the J-20, last year so I'll take his posts with a bit more salt than say if it came from tphuang.
For most under development projects like the J-XX in past years -- yes I am. We can find hundreds of random english and non chinese articles on the net regarding these topics. Myself, I'm not capable enough in Chinese to directly read from the Chinese boardds and I won't be able to immediately tell who's reliable and who's not, so I rely on forum members with good previous track records to discriminate and relay info.
Better than crappy backwater news sites.[/QUOTE]
Widened and made thicker... That alone should constitute a major redesign.
Right and you can easily just throw those numbers on the table?
I'm not even going to try and explain this anymore.
I trained in aircraft design. Redesigning an aircraft fuselage means changing more than half of the parts of the airframe.Not changing the other parts puts unnecessary constraints on the design of the new aircraft, especially important when you want to reduce observables. It is very different from adding a car port to a house.
that is amusing.
nkvd
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interesting.it turns out Russian do know whats going on.love it
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