looks like they are building the entire city for only aircraft production.. insane
and i think, this large scale infrastructure is for J-XDS as well.
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J-35A fighter (PLAAF) + FC-31 thread
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looks like they are building the entire city for only aircraft production.. insane
and i think, this large scale infrastructure is for J-XDS as well.
It says square meters, not square kilometers.
280000 square kilometers is about the size of the country of Ecuador, which is obviously ridiculous.
I think it square meter unit, 280,000 square kilometers is more than UK....
looks like they are building the entire city for only aircraft production.. insane
and i think, this large scale infrastructure is for J-XDS as well.
Found it, but for obvious reasons, I won't disclose the specific coordinates (should be easy tho).
This is purely for estimating the factory's size: 290m × 750m = 217,500 m². It's a big one indeed.
Notably, this is just one facility within the complex. The rendering (bottom right) suggests at least three additional adjacent factory structures.
"Did I stutter?!"
I'll see myself out.
Low quality post incoming.
"So how many 4th and 5th generation fighter aircraft does the new AVIC/Shenyang 280,000 square km factory will produce a year?"
" About 50,000 i guess"
The Chinese authorities and CCTV are very OPSEC savvy, so it's blatant that SAC/AVIC, PLAAF/PLANAF, and/or another state organ is intentionally publicizing the manufacturing capacity SAC has built up for the J-35/A.
Question is: what for?
Some people — inevitably and mostly Westerners and Indians — will scream "Chinese psyop" in response to the quoted footage to frame the PLA as a "paper tiger" desperate to exaggerate its capabilities. Savvier bigots of that variety might add that such a "psyop" would be intended to deceive DoD planners so they'll misprioritize programs intended to counter emergent Chinese capabilities.
However, let's think about this critically for a second . . . If there are people on this board who can do a good job estimating J-20 production rates, there are going to be plenty of professional analysts at NASIC and elsewhere with access to classified reporting on JWICS capable of competently assessing J-35 production capacity with or without watching CCTV.
The intended audience of such CCTV "leaks" is not a state actor. They wouldn't need it.
A more plausible scenario is that SAC/AVIC is publicizing the massive manufacturing capacity it has achieved for spitting out J-35/A fighters because it's good for business () and good for the careers of those leading these efforts. It's no secret that under General Secretary Xi.
The PLA might not have objected to such transparency as a certain degree of disclosure would've been inevitable given the export oriented nature of the J-35/FC-31 program since its inception.
With that said, we'll see more J-35/A "leaks," especially if an export customer — blessed by Allah with hydrocarbons — has already made a deposit for deliveries. That'll be an achievement that SAC/AVIC, especially their senior leadership, will want to milk publicly if permitted to do so.
Is there a clear image comparison between the horizontal stabiliser types? The "hinge" Vs "pivot" types, as I recall seeing in text?