Chinese Engine Development
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Isn't the turbine inlet temperature speculated to be 1850K for WS-15? Making it "4th gen" as per that slide. The text beside "6th gen" says "fully novel engine design" which could mean just about anything -- if we are to assume 5th gen is ACE/VCE, perhaps 6th gen is RDE which we know they have been working on.
This was the original figure from the late 2000s. Make of that what you will.
Chinese Engine Development
I think it will be a good idea to send a message to Russia that they have two choices; either sell China whatever engine technology it wants, or don't and China will catch up anyway through espionage/poaching/innovation/etc. Second choice might take longer, but end result is the same, which is...
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Thanks, the picture indicates China's CMC engine is at a very early developmental stage, it took GE 10 years from F414 CMC to a working XA100, therefore, it's reasonable to assume a Chinese XA100 equivalent will come out at around 2035.
From @sunnymaxi's sources, it might be possible it's already done
Perusing the research output on variable cycle engines all signs suggest they more or less have some candidate engine cycle designs completed. Whether they’ve proceeded to physical prototyping is an open ended question though the data in some of these papers suggest that they at least have some kind of physical test articles. Beyond that it’s hard to say. Chinese engine development is very secretive. For example the WS-15 is already in production and we know almost nothing about it.
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