J-10 Thread IV

[siegecrossbow]

Wonder how long it'll take before the J-10B/Cs and the J-16s are stationed on the frontline.

 

[Deino]

Wonder how long it'll take before the J-10B/Cs and the J-16s are stationed on the frontline.

Hmm ... why do You think the Regiments within the 2., 19. and 44. Divisions are not "frontline" ??
Or did I misunderstand Your post ?

 

[siegecrossbow]

Hmm ... why do You think the Regiments within the 2., 19. and 44. Divisions are not "frontline" ??
Or did I misunderstand Your post ?

By frontline I meant photographed by JSADF patrol aircraft.

 

[Deino]

Ahhh ... o.k. !

 

[FORBIN]

Very interesting !

From Henri K

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As the Chinese Air Force never publicly communicate this kind of information, we are forced to dig with proxy data, including through photos taken by Chinese fans

We therefore deduce that the production rate of J-10B CAC is around 3-4 aircraft per month, or 36 to 48 aircraft per year.

As for the total number of J-10B products, the last program that was photographed wearing: 1.53 registration, but other channels of information indicate to me that the last plane of the Batch 1 is registered 1.56.

If this information is correct, it will mean that at least 56 J-10B aircraft were produced.

1,5/2 Rgts by year.

Worck with deino's estimates

J-10B + C 55 J-10B 27 J-10C
J-10B-Batch 01: 55
J-10B/C-Batch 02: in production, so far 27 spotted (with 32 reported !)
Overall I think it is save to assume that with now for the serials A and AS (7 batches of A + 3 batches of S/AS) + the B/C-production at 55 J-10B and 27 J-10C I come to a sum of: 82

I have about 20 - 34 by year ofc for 2005 -2012

So we know that at least four regiments of the army of the Chinese air were gradually their J-10B.

It's about -
• Pilot Transformation Center Cangzhou
• 5th Regiment of the 2nd Division, based in Xiangshan, near the Sino-Vietnamese border
• 56th Regiment of the 19th Division, based in Matougang near Zhengzhou
• 61th Regiment of the 21th Division, based in Yanbian, near the northern border with North Korea
Location of these 4 units on the map -

Those who closely follow the Chinese defense know that this information is even more sensitive. Fans who post photos aircraft entered service are accustomed to hide or blur the operational registration in 5 digits.5 chiffres.

Not only officials seems...you undestand why you don' t see Deino...

I see in 77 combat Rgts ! i check and i am back

 

[tphuang]

i've stated this numerous times before, CAC can easily produce 4 a month and more if they really had to. They don't always do that since they will produce when PLAAF pays for it. As for where do they serve, I think Deino has gotten all of the regiments already in his earlier posts.

 

[danielchin]

200 KM per hour according to the narrator.

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[siegecrossbow]

Mid-air refueling.

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[Franklin]

China's fighter fleet of jets and attack helicopters like the J-10B/C, J-11B and the Z-10 are expanding about 30 to 40 a piece each year. Not very impressive. Just look at the US Soviet military buildup in the 1980's they are each doing the multiple of that each year for their air forces and then some more you have the nuclear arms race, the space race, the race to build nuclear subs, the race to expand their strategic bomber forces (something that China hasn't started yet), the race to build more ballistic missile's nuclear and other kinds and fighting proxy wars, building overseas bases and propping up client regimes all over the world at the same time. Now that was a military buildup !

But then again that's the period that the US turned into a net debter nation and never looked back. And the USSR is no longer with us.

 

[antiterror13]

@Franklin ..... China is not in hurry and better build in reasonable number so keep improving for each new batch. USSR is different, almost 25% of GDP was for military related and almost 75% of state revenue was for military related too .. and everybody knew how bad the state of economy o fthe USSR and collapsed in 1990.

China only spend 2% of GDP for Defence and only 6-7% of Fiscal revenue ($2.7T vs $160B) .... while the US spend $637B for military (excluding CIA and others) and Fiscal revenue $3.3T or almost 20% of fiscal revenue is allocated for military (over 3x of Chinese)

China is doing right in my opinion ..... and also much better as China keep incresing the R&D as percentage of GDP