J-10 Thread IV

[tphuang]

Alright, I'm going to leave those comments in there. But please, no more discussion of Patch's credential. Anything further will get deleted.

 

[by78]

Elephant walk.

 

[by78]

 

[SteelBird]

According to Fu Qian Xiao (傅前哨), Pakistan announces some parameters of J-10C as below:
- empty weight: 9.75 tons
- max take-off weight: 19.28 tons
- engine military thrust: 9.1 tons
- after burning thrust: 14.52 tons
- combat range: 2592km
- max speed: 1.8m
- ceiling: 17000m

 

[by78]

According to Fu Qian Xiao (傅前哨), Pakistan announces some parameters of J-10C as below:
- empty weight: 9.75 tons
- max take-off weight: 19.28 tons
- engine military thrust: 9.1 tons
- after burning thrust: 14.52 tons
- combat range: 2592km
- max speed: 1.8m
- ceiling: 17000m

Already discussed since last Thursday.

 

[by78]

A Pakistani J-10CE.

 

[taxiya]

Could you simmer down?

I have come across a zhihu post

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. The author listed the following:

WS-10, original, unreliable, not deployed.
WS-10A, 132kn, deployed. The baseline. The figure was shown in a 2001 paper.
WS-10B, 12% increse, 143kn, deployed.
WS-10C, reduce BPR and life, temporary solution for J-20.
The existences of B and C were in a bidding announcement for control software published in 2019.

The author referred to this paper

某性能增强型涡扇发动机稳态性能调试方法研究​

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here is a copy

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, it is not good quality but in the first page it is clear that there is 12% increase from the baseline.

 

[kurutoga]

WS-10C, reduce BPR and life, temporary solution for J-20.
The existences of B and C were in a bidding announcement for control software published in 2019.

So, you imply the existing J-20s will install WS-15 later in life?

 

[taxiya]

So, you imply the existing J-20s will install WS-15 later in life?

not implying that. temporary meant for the program not the individual aircraft. To be more precise, it is stand-in/backup of the program which intended not to do so but was anticipated.

But switching the engine for existing aircraft is possible if the dimension allows.

 

[by78]

A beautiful image of Pakistani J-10CEs.