China Flanker Thread II

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Blackstone

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China's growing air power

J11B, J16 and J31 when compared

Note how small the J31 is

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What a gorgeous parade!
 

Blitzo

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Re: Shenyang J-31 Fighter

So, what sources do you say are better? Link some recent publications from those sources for discussion and debate.

I think the problem is that some outlets can produce good and bad content, and that depends on the writers they hire.

Sometimes janes gets it right but this time they it it wrong.
 

Blitzo

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Re: Shenyang J-31 Fighter

Can you link some credible sources for your claim?

You can go into huitong's page where he lists all the IDed Fighters of PLA and check engines of all the J-11B/BS. Or you can simply go back through the flanker thread over the last two years and see what new build J-11B/BS and J-16 are using Al-31. Answer is none


The argument isn't about jet engine sophistication, but their quality, dependability, and airworthiness.

Well that obviously differs for engine to engine. More mature engines are more reliable, built with more consistent quality, more dependable, while newer engines naturally are not.

Btw I wasn't talking about engine sophistication but engine industry sophistication


So find some Chinese reports that gives different accounts to Jane's Defense. While I generally like your posts and respect your knowledge, you still need to link credible sources to counter Jane's article.

Black stone, you are not new to PLA watching, you know as well as we all do that such "sources" are far and few between. But just because there are no official publications from the Chinese side doesn't mean anything that other sources say are accurate just because they have a website and a subscription service.

Kanwa, warisboring, strategy page, and yes occasionally Janes, are rife with inaccurate assessments of PLA development, often done by poor research or simply clouded by their own writer's bias.
Places like SDF on the other hand, are aggregates for "grey" sources, but have shown time and again to often present new information days or weeks before "reliable" defence outlets, and usually have greater understanding of the PLA holistically as well. Sometimes one of our own may have a voice: tphuang wrote a few posts for USNI website and skywatcher has a dedicated blog on popular science, and some western commentators like bill sweetman and rick fisher and Andrew Erickson are more reliable than their peers too, but there are also masses of "journalists" who know jack all about the PLA yet still have a voice from a "credible" outlet.
 

plawolf

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Re: Shenyang J-31 Fighter

Because we grew up with Janes, and they continue to provide one of the more reliable sources for real information, not perfect, but far better than most historically!

That really depends on what they are reporting on.

Janes is top class when it comes to reporting on western defense developments because it has good relations with the top players and have long established contacts and trusted sources.

That is not so when it comes to their reporting on Chinese affairs because Janes doesn't have any special relationship with top Chinese firms, so their information comes mainly from western sources.

Not only does that make their information second or even third hand at best, it also means whatever information they get are viewed through the prism of western establishment hostility, snobbery and now increasely, unease, righteous indignation and denial.

To look at western specialist media reporting on every major Chinese development in the last decade or so produces an amusingly consistent pattern that is surprisingly similar to the 7 stages of grief.

To follow western reporting on Chinese development (not just military) is to subject yourself to that same roller coaster ride.

Why put yourself through that time and again and it has been show time and again that we have one of the best publically available sources to give a far more accurate assessment of what China's capabilities are and they developments they are making?
 

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xiabonan

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Re: Shenyang J-31 Fighter

A few years ago very few J11B, J11BS, J11BH were there and TH powered fighters are only a minority.

Today, almost all the new pictures of J11&J16 were shown using TH engines.

Believe what you believe. I only believe my eyes.

Anyway sorry for OT let's get back.
 

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Re: Shenyang J-31 Fighter

A few years ago very few J11B, J11BS, J11BH were there and TH powered fighters are only a minority.

Today, almost all the new pictures of J11&J16 were shown using TH engines.

Believe what you believe. I only believe my eyes.

Anyway sorry for OT let's get back.

Sorry to correct You (simply to be a stronger argument against "blackstone's" critics!), but to be precisely: NONE !

It's really that simple, but since years there has been not a single newly build J-11B, J-11BH, J-11BS, J-11BSH and most of all J-16 without the WS-10A Taihang !

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Blitzo

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Re: Shenyang J-31 Fighter

Out of all J-11B/BS/H and J-16, only the initial regiment of J-11Bs were equipped with Al-31s, all others are WS-10A powered.
 
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