J-10 Thread IV

[Atomicfrog]

Yeah nvm, I went and found some frontal pictures and determined that I was being stupid.

To be doubtful is always good. It's still a big upgrade package for these birds. What is the middle ages of these birds ? 14 years or so ?

Would be so interesting to know the number of flighthours of these airframes. If they are doing that kind of upgrades, they are clearly hoping to make them fly for the next 10 years.

 

[Schwerter_]

To be doubtful is always good. It's still a big upgrade package for these birds. What is the middle ages of these birds ? 14 years or so ?

Would be so interesting to know the number of flighthours of these airframes. If they are doing that kind of upgrades, they are clearly hoping to make them fly for the next 10 years.

Yeah, also if they’re looking at flying them for the next 10 or so years engines should also be an issue. We’ve seen J-10AS (I think) retrofitted with WS-10, wonder if we’ll see the entire J-10A fleet convert in the near future.

 

[Atomicfrog]

Yeah, also if they’re looking at flying them for the next 10 or so years engines should also be an issue. We’ve seen J-10AS (I think) retrofitted with WS-10, wonder if we’ll see the entire J-10A fleet convert in the near future.

I don't think the final WS-10 was finalized before a lot of J-10A were build. Clearly don't know if the airframe can accept it easily, maybe some batch have the possibility of doing it and other need more work to be able to.

If they had thought of the change and let enough room to have slight different engine it's clearly a nice move from the design team.

 

[Derpy]

To be doubtful is always good. It's still a big upgrade package for these birds. What is the middle ages of these birds ? 14 years or so ?

Would be so interesting to know the number of flighthours of these airframes. If they are doing that kind of upgrades, they are clearly hoping to make them fly for the next 10 years.

With the deteriorating security situation it might be pressing needs to quickly improve capability that also factor in besides how many flight hours the airframes got left.

 

[Atomicfrog]

With the deteriorating security situation it might be pressing needs to quickly improve capability that also factor in besides how many flight hours the airframes got left.

Yeah it could be. Even if the airframe have a lot of hours, they can also do deep structural repairs or upgrades to extend their life. Fresh airframe would no require that if they have a lot of hours left.

 

[siegecrossbow]

We are also forgetting about Yankeesama’s North Korean J-10A rumor. When fitted with AESA radar they will be the most potent fighter in the Air Force.

 

[Atomicfrog]

We are also forgetting about Yankeesama’s North Korean J-10A rumor. When fitted with AESA radar they will be the most potent fighter in the Air Force.

Refurbishing and upgrading them to sell/give them to North Korea?

 

[siegecrossbow]

Refurbishing and upgrading them to sell/give them to North Korea?

Why not? Taiwan is getting F-16V which are more capable.

 

[HumanHDMI]

Does anyone have a source on Jiang Zemin intervening to save the J10 program

 

[Deino]

Could it be that the new JKL-24 is actually related to the air-cooled LKF601E (Falcon-S7B) AESA radar by LETRI/607 institute displayed at Zhuhai 2018 and once proposed as an AESA for the JF-17 Block 3 competing with the liquid-cooled KLJ-7A offered by NRIET?