Awesome picture of a real J-16 powered by WS-10A engine armed to the teeth !!!
The picture showed J-16 carrying as many as thirty 500-pound laser guided bombs plus two PL-8 air to air missiles !!!
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There is a supplementary point about Russian designations where Sukhoi's are SU and Migs are Mig, but it just occurs to me that I only know these from Western sources and so not entirely sure is these are the precise designations used by the Russians themselves?
To put your mind at ease, Su and MiG are the original Russian designations, derived from the names of the chief designers of the design bureaus. NATO coined nicknames like FLANKER or FULCRUM because the exact designations were not always known.
If the same design change to a flanker, when implemented by the Russians, would not have caused external observer to give it a different name, then the design change, just because it was done by the Chinese, should not result in a different name either.
Flanker is a NATO name, and as an external observer, NATO had demand very drastic changes before according Russian designs a new name. Look at the Su-7/17/22 fitter family, or the mig-23/27 flogger family.
Just like the pink chain we seen on Liaoning.
Still a chain.
Any chance the green areas are composites? I've seen an Eurofighter Typhoon documentary, and its all composite wings too are green.
from a weight stand point, it would make sense