Chinese Engine Development
- Thread starter jackbh
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WP are turbojet engines and the one's China did build were based on Soviet design and improved on with higher thrust. There was a programme to design one on their own, the WP14 better known as the Kunlun but it went no where, since the trend now is towards turbofan engines with it's much higher thrust and fuel efficiency. Cheers
AeroEngineer
Junior Member
The CAT lunched J-15 are all using WS-10 engines.
Only the skip jump ones are using AL-31F junk engines.
Only the skip jump ones are using AL-31F junk engines.
Blackstone
Brigadier
Where's the evidence to your claim catapult-launched J-15s are all using WS-10x?
Hyperwarp
Captain
There are only a very few photos of the J-15T/J-15A. The the clear ones all have WS-10 variant (WS-10H?) installed - , ,
plus Hui Tong has this to say:
Come on Blackstone ... why do You always nowadays question everything that has long been proved ??
And if You would be interested in earnest, then do a bit of search on Your own; it is not that difficult especially with only about five images available.
Otherwise I get that strange feeling that Your true intentions is different ??
Blackstone
Brigadier
@Deino- I agree there's solid evidence at least one catapult-capable J-15 used WS-10 turbofans, but the OP's claim is all of them used WS-10s. For that claim to be true, the source would have to know total numbers of catapult-capable J-15s in existence, plus whether they all used WS-10s. That's why I asked for evidence.
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
LOL This is what I'm talking about. If any source anywhere in the media says J-20 might be too large, or that canards are unsteathly, or that Chinese engines may be in trouble, he takes it as fact needing nothing else because he likes it. When it comes to something that he doesn't like, such as whether J-15 uses WS-10, he will need evidence on the order of magnitudes; he will literally need to see a date-stamped picture of every J-15 in existence with serial numbers, engines, and a video of it being used in a catapult to begrudgingly admit anything.
Hyperwarp
Captain
In-terms of photographic evidence, there is only 1x J-15A so far. The very first one and it is powered by the the WS-10. In-contrast all but 1x of the original J-15 had AL-31F. Only prototype #554 had WS-10 installed but that too had reverted to the AL-31F. But the very 1st J-15A prototype is powered by the WS-10. So for them to jump directly to the WS-10 for 1st prototype is a major shift.