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JUST For Your Information-Speculated PLAAF fighter deliveries over the years:
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Aviation week has a new article putting J-10 production rate at 24 per year for the last six years. Total fighters delivered averaged 85 per year. In 2021, 24 J-10, 18 J-20, 10 J-15, 30 J-16, and 3 J-11. If 2013 = J10B and 2014+ = J-10C, then J-10C total = 238. J-10 production should end before 2035.

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Already discussed in the J-10 thread … and in fact I had a long and most interesting chat yesterday with the stuff from Aviation Week concerning these numbers since I tried to get in contact with the author especially on what's their source and discussing my opinion that I rate these numbers - for the Flankers - too high!

The result was that they even showed me their raw data which looked indeed very reasonable.
Also interesting, they use a very similar system ONLY based on open source data like me and have NO contacts to AVIC/SAC.

As it seems it was an error made by the design-department, which „translated“ the annual numbers into this graphic a bit in a wrong way.
 
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