There is no way that Korean "stealth" fighter jet will be ready before FC-31. With the J-20 experience, they can scale up FC-31 much faster.
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There is no way that Korean "stealth" fighter jet will be ready before FC-31. With the J-20 experience, they can scale up FC-31 much faster.
No, the FC-31 is a testbed, a demonstrator and not an aircraft ready for export. I would even go so far to assume that it is unlikely a full avionics-suite was ever installed. As such any potential export customer - and additionally I don't think SAC would ever sell nor any customer buy a not yet completed type - needs to pay for finalisation of flight testing and so on.
I know, surely at the PDF some will immediately start hyperventilating and this these MUST be for Pakistan!
In the end I agree with you, "within few years FC-31 can be ready for exports", but surely not yet.
I'll try it again ... so far there IS NO FC-31. Those FC-31s flown first in 2013 & 2016 are demonstrators or testbeds, but no prototypes, which could be just put in production.
you don't have to be in production to sell a product. If customers are comfortable with the progress, they can make investment now. After all, many don't have a choice. It's either this or Rafale or F-15s
Tomatoes Tomatos. What’s there to stop them from releasing a version of J-35 for export and calling it J-31?
Surely the „new“ FC-31 or J-31 will benefit from the J-35‘s development and most likely be more exactly what you described - aka a de-navalised J-35 - than a evolved FC-31 (V2), but I think it is highly unlikely that this fighter will ready for production before the J-35.
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The first batch of AG100 has rolled off the production line and been handed over to customers.
Spec sheet on the AG100 trainer.
Some salient specs and features are:
– All composite fuselage construction (both structural and skin)
– Max takeoff weight: 975kg
– Normal takeoff weight: 590kg
– Max payload: 385kg
– Ceiling: 4267m
– Stall speed: 105km/h
– Cruise speed: 257.4km/h
– Takeoff distance: 398m
– Rate of climb: 4.27m/s
– Range: 1000km
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General
Spec sheet on the AG100 trainer.
Some salient specs and features are:
– All composite fuselage construction (both structural and skin)
– Max takeoff weight: 975kg
– Normal takeoff weight: 590kg
– Max payload: 385kg
– Ceiling: 4267m
– Stall speed: 105km/h
– Cruise speed: 257.4km/h
– Takeoff distance: 398m
– Rate of climb: 4.27m/s
– Range: 1000km
Cockpit view of AG100.
