As always my friend, a GREAT article.
And they are beautiful aircraft.
I wonder how many they will ultimately produce?
J-10 Thread IV
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And they are beautiful aircraft.
I wonder how many they will ultimately produce?
Yes, and thanks 204 & 205 were missing so far, however but I'm a bit surprised since 203 is known in yellow primer since 30. September 2015.
Does anyone know how long it usually takes for an individual aircraft from first flight to painting to delivery ?
Deino
Does anyone know how long it usually takes for an individual aircraft from first flight to painting to delivery ?
Deino
Should've elaborated. Although the images are new, they were taken a while back (not sure how early). The photographer didn't pixelate the serial numbers since he didn't consider them fresh enough to be "secret".
Of course no one knows, but i'd say at least enough to replace remaining j7e/g. Meaning some 300ish extra over the 400 or so produced so far. That's assuming all regiments equipped with older j7 variants get retired. Or they could rearrange them, merge some, inactive others... That could be worth a hundred or more planes.
At the same time, j16/j11 would have plenty of j8 and q5 to replace.
Issue with all of the above, though, is there wouldn't be many older su27 or any other old planes left for j20 to replace. Let alone j-31.
So by that line of thinking, all those obsolete regiments with old j7 might not be inactivated.
Who knows, really...
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Yes, but if You follow the last two years, serials - or here better to say c/n's - of new aircraft are rarely pixelated ... only the 5-digit serials for the operational units.
I like it. But I notice, very much, that you combine indiscriminately the terms for serial and batch production. It can't be both!
Agree and the J-10 ofc is more expensive ( few for a actual decent fighter ) as J-7/Q-5 in more Chinese Army go for a size reduction, small and the J-10 definitely not replace one by one olders fighter bombers maybe about 3 for 4 or a little more.
Remenber in 1990 PLAAF has 3000/3500 fighter bombers whose the most modern relatively ... ~ 100 H-6 and ~ 500 J-7 now ~ 2100 but with actual quality no comparison for its power
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