Potential PLANAF Carrier Aviation Alternatives

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BLUEJACKET

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If the Chinese encounter problems with those airframes already mentioned here, and should the EU lift its arms ban sales against the PRC, I wouldn't discount the French Rafale- it has been developed for the French Air Force and Navy
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The French stopped military sales to Taiwan and if they price it right, the Rafale could beat Su-33 as a stop gap measure until the Chinese build their own carrier based jet.
Comparable aircraft
HAL Tejas
Eurofighter Typhoon
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
Sukhoi Su-30 MKI (!)
Saab Gripen
J-10 (!) -
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Also, how about the Yak-141?
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maglomanic said:
I have one question for you guys. JH-7A seems like a realistic feature of PLAN air wing. More so because of it's better FBW,avionics and antiship weapons capability. What is the chance that we will see a carrier based version of JH-7A??
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JH-7A look old, alternative will be SU-30MKK,which possess good range,EW,avionic,bomb load...
 
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What about the FC-1, that thing has side intakes and seems to be a reasonably small size which can pack some reasonable firepower? Besides its pretty cheap too.
 
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eecsmaster

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BLUEJACKET said:
Comparable aircraft
HAL Tejas
Eurofighter Typhoon
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
Sukhoi Su-30 MKI (!)
Saab Gripen
J-10 (!) -
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LCA on the same footing as the Rafale? What are you smoking? By the way, you might want to distinguish between single and twin engined planes. There is a pretty good reason why most people don't use single engined planes for carrier ops.
 
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challenge said:
JH-7A look old, alternative will be SU-30MKK,which possess good range,EW,avionic,bomb load...
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I actually think maybe China will want to field some Su-33's and mix a strike component of 'navalized' multi-role J-10. The Su-33's would be designed as a longer ranged air superiority component to control airspace and escort a strike component (J-10) to the target. That is of course if China has even considered a navalized J-10 variant. :confused:
 
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I think the PLAN are in grips trying to find ways to pay their own salaries before they can think of all these things. They are facing heavy competition from the commercial sector for the kind of educated and skilled people needed to run and maintain the next generation of more technologically advanced ships, not to mention to stop the bleeding of their own people to China's own humongous (over 10X the size of Great Britain's) merchant navy.
 
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BLUEJACKET

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eecsmaster said:
LCA on the same footing as the Rafale? What are you smoking? By the way, you might want to distinguish between single and twin engined planes. There is a pretty good reason why most people don't use single engined planes for carrier ops.
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Can only Light Combat Aircraft be used on a carrier?
The Rafale program is composed of three versions of multi-purpose twin-engine combat aircraft. The first is a single-seat Rafale C, the second is a two-seat Rafale B and the third is a single-seat naval version Rafale M.-

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With new and more reliable engines, using one-engine fighters is not as risky as before. The JSF for the USN is a case in point: Powerplant: 1× Pratt & Whitney F135 afterburning turbofan-
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BLUEJACKET said:
Can only Light Combat Aircraft be used on a carrier?
The Rafale program is composed of three versions of multi-purpose twin-engine combat aircraft. The first is a single-seat Rafale C, the second is a two-seat Rafale B and the third is a single-seat naval version Rafale M.-

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With new and more reliable engines, using one-engine fighters is not as risky as before. The JSF for the USN is a case in point: Powerplant: 1× Pratt & Whitney F135 afterburning turbofan-
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Bluejacket, as you know the EU has an arms embargo against the PRC. Nothng will happen until that is lifted.

Not only is the F-35 JSF a single engine aircraft so were many USN jet aircraft. A-4, A-7 & F-8. All served the USN and other nations well.
 
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BLUEJACKET

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bd popeye said:
Bluejacket, as you know the EU has an arms embargo against the PRC. Nothng will happen until that is lifted.

Not only is the F-35 JSF a single engine aircraft so were many USN jet aircraft. A-4, A-7 & F-8. All served the USN and other nations well.
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I know that, I just wanted to give better substantiation against the argument that "most people don't use single engine a/c on carriers". And in my earlier posting, I clarified: "should the EU lift its arms sales against the PRC..."
 
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