Shenyang FC-31 / J-31 Fighter Demonstrator
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Sorry if off topic, but this popped up in screen. Is it one of those wiki glitch?
lmao
almost nothing is rightThe English language Wiki is garbage. There is a Chinese language Wiki page out there with the correct information.
I almost agree with youlmao
I think this is/was only valid for the demonstrator phase and as it seems it is now a fully founded project
The FC-31 was an internal demonstrator program for new prototyping technologies to design a new fighter aircraft.
It seems it got them a contract to develop a naval fighter for the PLANAF i.e. the mythical J-35 but there are next to no official news about it.
There were rumors of attempted export sales of the original demonstrator (to either a Gulf Petrostate or Pakistan) but it seemingly went nowhere. Not a lot of external countries interested in funding a new aircraft from scratch.
The only pictures we have of the demonstrator prototypes (V1, V2) show an aircraft with a landing gear which is clearly too weak for a regular catapult. It also doesn't seem to have a tailhook assembly or folding wings or anything like that. The naval aircraft, if it does happen, should be a new and supposedly larger design based on technology developed with this program.
There were news reports of a next-generation Chinese engine in the RD-33 class with latest generation T/W ratio. There were even pictures of it in the forums here if I remember. Supposedly two of those engines would power that J-35 aircraft.
It seems it got them a contract to develop a naval fighter for the PLANAF i.e. the mythical J-35 but there are next to no official news about it.
There were rumors of attempted export sales of the original demonstrator (to either a Gulf Petrostate or Pakistan) but it seemingly went nowhere. Not a lot of external countries interested in funding a new aircraft from scratch.
The only pictures we have of the demonstrator prototypes (V1, V2) show an aircraft with a landing gear which is clearly too weak for a regular catapult. It also doesn't seem to have a tailhook assembly or folding wings or anything like that. The naval aircraft, if it does happen, should be a new and supposedly larger design based on technology developed with this program.
There were news reports of a next-generation Chinese engine in the RD-33 class with latest generation T/W ratio. There were even pictures of it in the forums here if I remember. Supposedly two of those engines would power that J-35 aircraft.
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