J-15 carrier-borne fighter thread

Blitzo

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so what does it mean? is China going to that route (catapult)?

Yes, we all know that the Navy will be having CATOBAR carriers sooner or later. And rumours of a catapult compatible J-15 have been flying around for a few years now, so this J-15 variant is not unexpected.

What will be important to see, is whether this J-15 in the picture is a prototype for a newly overhauled J-15, such as a J-15 variant improved avionics (AESA radar, etc) and so on, or if it is merely a one off standard J-15 meant for catapult testing.
 

asif iqbal

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I think the CATOBAR carrier programme is further ahead than we think

So 2 X STOBAR
Plus now real talk of a CAROBAR

Could take steam or if delayed could be EMALS

Conventional or nuclear

Options are looking good
 

latenlazy

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I think the CATOBAR carrier programme is further ahead than we think

So 2 X STOBAR
Plus now real talk of a CAROBAR

Could take steam or if delayed could be EMALS

Conventional or nuclear

Options are looking good
EMALS over steam if they've already locked down the design of Type 002 and it includes cats. EMALS is more modular and less structurally embedded, which means they don't need to finalize the EMALS design before freezing the design of the CV, unlike with steam cats.
 

longmarch

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To me IEPS is bigger change than switching CATs. If these two have to go together, even less chance of seeing EMALS on 002.
 

Blitzo

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Have we seen any J-15's with a WS-10 engine ? An article posted here said that the WS-10 is used on the J-15.

An early J-15 prototype used WS-10, but later switched to Al-31.

Huitong is saying that the catapult capable J-15 may be powered by WS-10s, but we have no pictures.
 
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