J-20 5th Gen Fighter Thread VI

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Josh Luo said:
But J-10 and J-20 continue to use AL31-FN series 3 engines. Nearly all Chengdu-made aircraft use AL-31 FN series (and the new series 3 is indeed a good engine, but the original Al-31 FN was arguably responsible for the tragic death of Captain Yu Xu and a number J-10A pilots). Only Shenyang J-11B and J-16 use domestic engines. If I see both J-10Cs and J-20s start using WS-10 series engines like the J-11B and J-16, that would be a huge milestone.
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Yu Xi died due to a head on collision with another jet I thought. That particular incident had nothing to do with the engine.

The wall climber specifically referred to “twin dragons” in his original post. If he wasn’t referring to two J-20s he spotted then he definitely meant that both the J-20 and another J-10 variant are getting domestic engines.
 
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Deino said:
However we need to remember, that there is NO confirmation on this engine, it was a theory I or we summed up some time ago.
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I agree there's no official confirmation that we know of but if one were to google "AL-31FM2 J-20" we see that almost all sources say that that is the current pairing. Wikipedia's AL-31 page also says this, though the cited link is in Cyrillic.

Another thought I just had is that this could explain what seems to be the recent lull in J-20 production. While it makes no sense to hold off 2018/19 production for a 2025 WS-15, it would certainly make sense to hold off for this improved WS-10X version that was right on the cusp of being finalized.
 
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Equation said:
I agree there's no official confirmation that we know of but if one were to google "AL-31FM2 J-20" we see that almost all sources say that that is the current pairing. Wikipedia's AL-31 page also says this, though the cited link is in Cyrillic.

Another thought I just had is that this could explain what seems to be the recent lull in J-20 production. While it makes no sense to hold off 2018/19 production for a 2025 WS-15, it would certainly make sense to hold off for this improved WS-10X version that was right on the cusp of being finalized.
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agreed, as they might have to make a few changes to engine mounts and fuel/engine controls specific to the WS-10, and that could require some lead time.
 
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siegecrossbow said:
Yu Xi died due to a head on collision with another jet I thought. That particular incident had nothing to do with the engine.

The wall climber specifically referred to “twin dragons” in his original post. If he wasn’t referring to two J-20s he spotted then he definitely meant that both the J-20 and another J-10 variant are getting domestic engines.
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The way I remember it, Yu Xi ejected from her problematic jet and got hit by another jet coming from behind. It wasn't any kind of maneuver mistake.
 
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Quickie said:
The way I remember it, Yu Xi ejected from her problematic jet and got hit by another jet coming from behind. It wasn't any kind of maneuver mistake.
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I think they were flying in close formation when a mistake was made and Yu's jet collided with another jet, so she and her co-pilot ejected but she was struck by the wing of another jet as she ejected. It had nothing to do with the engine.
 
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vesicles said:
行了 in Chinese means “good to go” or “all set”. As to any hidden meaning, I can’t say...
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Only the original poster knows if he/she want to have a hidden meaning. However, the likelihood is very high. There has been a trend among Chinese netizens born since the 1980s, especially 1990s to use a noun in place of verb, or the other way around. 行 is both a noun as in "Taihang" and a verb as in "Xing le". The poster could be just playing the game if he is a young fellow. The other example is 雷了, where 雷 is the noun meaning thunder, but used by netizens as a verb as "shocked" (by a thunder).
 
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