Chinese Engine Development

quote from sinodefence:The production of the J-11 was reportedly delayed due to serious quality problems at the early stage, but the production had reached an impressive rate by late 2002. Russian sources confirmed that about 48 aircraft had been assembled by 2002, and another 48 between 2002 and 2003.

what do you mean 15 a year?! i think all remaining liscenced j-11's(around 100), probably th b varient, will be fitted with ws-10a. notice they have stopped production to make some upgrades. the pla probably wants to continue j-10 prodution soon, maybe make about 60-70 with the al-31. than the will fit the ws-10s on a twin engine varient possibly.

MIGleader said:

quote from sinodefence:The production of the J-11 was reportedly delayed due to serious quality problems at the early stage, but the production had reached an impressive rate by late 2002. Russian sources confirmed that about 48 aircraft had been assembled by 2002, and another 48 between 2002 and 2003.

what do you mean 15 a year?! i think all remaining liscenced j-11's(around 100), probably th b varient, will be fitted with ws-10a. notice they have stopped production to make some upgrades. the pla probably wants to continue j-10 prodution soon, maybe make about 60-70 with the al-31. than the will fit the ws-10s on a twin engine varient possibly.

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the question is how many WS-10As can we produce per year? If we are producing 40 to 50 J-11s, then that will need 120 WS-10A engines. What do we have left for J-10s, then? Clearly, WS-10A will make J-10 more maneouverable.

this has been posted in quite a few places, so I might as well post it here.
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重大利好：重点型号持久试车胜利完成
航空报4号头版头条：《砥砺锋芒铸神剑 一航动力所胜利完成重点型号设计定型持久试车》
时间是9月27号，总算是有结果了，谢天谢地。
It doesn't specifically say that it is WS10A, but it's quite implied that it's WS10A, because it talks about AVIC1 successfully finishing endurance testing on the major model. Apparently, this happened in September 27th. This is also mentionned on CDF and key publishing aviation forum. Now, I just need to find a picture of the original article.

But yeah, since this is considered to be the most important and the FINAL test, we can probably see WS-10A being certified in the coming months. Hopefully sooner rather than later. I'm still waiting for a kanwa article on this.

Here is the article's scanned picture:
had to take it off, but here is a link to it.

just wondering, i picked up some news that the ws-10 has finish endurance test

it has and it should be ready for J-11B now, since this is the final test before certification.

so when will we see the first j-11b? o7? o8? it still needs a new radar and a slighly rediesigned airframe.

MIGleader said:

so when will we see the first j-11b? o7? o8? it still needs a new radar and a slighly rediesigned airframe.

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I'm thinking the J-11B prototypes have been out already and it uses KLJ-4, so it should join in 06 in my opinion

klj-4? stats for it?

MIGleader said:

klj-4? stats for it?

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It's been mentioned a few times on key publishing aviation forums. Current (speculated) data is detection range of 160 km and ability to track/attack 4 targets at same time. But this is all speculated and there's no actual data.

If you go to the manufactuer web site (NRIET), they don't list the product specs either.

wow, 160 km reange isnt bad, but 4 target tracking? they can do better than that.