China Flanker Thread II

[Tetrach]

What are the major changes from the russian to the chinese flanker ?

 

[siegecrossbow]

What are the major changes from the russian to the chinese flanker ?

1) Which variant? J-11A/B, J-15, or J-16?
2) In the case of J-11A: almost nothing.
3) In the case of J-11B. Radar change from Cassegrain to slotted planar array. Higher use of composites and other advanced material. Second batch onward J-11Bs used domestically made WS-10 engines instead of AL-31Fs. J-11B also employs more advanced avionics and extensively used LCD displays to replace mechanical dials within the cockpit.
4) In the case of J-15, pretty much the same changes as J-11B with the exception of domestic engine usage.
5) In the case of J-16, radar change from Cassegrain to AESA radar and many of the same changes as J-11B.

 

[Deino]

Interesting, one of these Flankers - I assumes they are all J-16s - has a lighter coloured grey camo. Maybe it's the J-16H naval variant prototype?

 

[Biscuits]

Why are some of them yellow? Isn’t that testing color?

 

[gelgoog]

Yellow is the primer color I think. It basically means they haven't painted them yet.

 

[davidau]

High resolution of a recent flight training excercise of a combat fighter attached to an aviation brigade of the PLAAF Southern Theatre Command performs aerial maneuver on April 10, 2019.

 

[Hyperwarp]

J-11D close-up -

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Any hint from the big-shrips regarding this project?

 

[gelgoog]

I hope they beefed up the specs to make the J-11D more competitive with the Su-35.
Now that the WS-10 engine with TVC is available it seems like a waste not to use it in a fighter like this.

 

[ougoah]

Maybe there's still a team somewhere within SAC tasked with developing the J-11D attempt 2 using the WS-10 TVC and new FBW to see if they can match Su-35's performance. If they are successful, this final J-11D can use Chinese missiles and AESA, making it better integrated into PLAAF compared to the Su-35s which are more or less the lone wolves of PLAAF, with its own advantages in peacetime.

 

[Totoro]

I somehow have a feeling J-11D lost out to J-16. And if we see it, it may be in the form of modernized existing J-11B airframes. But given that we don't really know much about J11D to begin with, anything if possible I guess. Though with FC31 based plane possibly/probably around the corner, we may not see another big variant of flanker made by SAC...