J-15 carrier-borne fighter thread

free_6ix9ine

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Can someone explain why the WS-10 is more successful than the WS-13?

Looks like the J-10C, J-11's, J-16s, and J-20s are now mostly transitioned to WS-10 engines for new production aircraft, but the JF-17 is still using the RD-33 and not the WS-13?

I thought the WS-13 is a less powerful engine, shouldn't it be easier to design and produce than the more powerful WS-10?
 

ougoah

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Can someone explain why the WS-10 is more successful than the WS-13?

Looks like the J-10C, J-11's, J-16s, and J-20s are now mostly transitioned to WS-10 engines for new production aircraft, but the JF-17 is still using the RD-33 and not the WS-13?

I thought the WS-13 is a less powerful engine, shouldn't it be easier to design and produce than the more powerful WS-10?

Because all PLAAF and PLANAF fighters use AL-31 variant engines and WS-10 variant engines. Both of which are also of similar sizes and weights and onboard the flanker series of fighters. It's China's F110 in functionality. Having one common engine really eases strain on logistics and WS-13 so far is not really applied on anything except for maybe the GJ-11 UCAV. It was developed as a totally copied RD-33 just so Pakistan could have an alternative to RD-33/93 if Russia decided not to sell. J-31 may use a better medium thrust engine in the alleged WS-19 which should be similar in size and weight to the WS-13 but offer improvements due to a decade or so of difference between development timeframes.
 

free_6ix9ine

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Because all PLAAF and PLANAF fighters use AL-31 variant engines and WS-10 variant engines. Both of which are also of similar sizes and weights and onboard the flanker series of fighters. It's China's F110 in functionality. Having one common engine really eases strain on logistics and WS-13 so far is not really applied on anything except for maybe the GJ-11 UCAV. It was developed as a totally copied RD-33 just so Pakistan could have an alternative to RD-33/93 if Russia decided not to sell. J-31 may use a better medium thrust engine in the alleged WS-19 which should be similar in size and weight to the WS-13 but offer improvements due to a decade or so of difference between development timeframes.

Sure, but there is still no excuse to not finish development on a simpler engine, when the WS-10 is nearing maturity. If China wants the JF-17 to become export success, they can't rely on Russia on such a critical component.
 

Hendrik_2000

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Sure, but there is still no excuse to not finish development on a simpler engine, when the WS-10 is nearing maturity. If China wants the JF-17 to become export success, they can't rely on Russia on such a critical component.

And why should China expand limited budget to developed WS 13 when JF 17 is not in service with PLAAF? Pakistan does not want WS 13 engine she choose RD93 engine. China better spend the money bringing WS 19 in service because it is better engine with better performance and take advantage of the latest development in Engine engineering
 

ougoah

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Sure, but there is still no excuse to not finish development on a simpler engine, when the WS-10 is nearing maturity. If China wants the JF-17 to become export success, they can't rely on Russia on such a critical component.

Huh?? Finish development? And you know the WS-13 isn't finished in development? What makes you think that? I haven't seen any info on WS-13 except for the fact that it is essentially a copy of RD-33 done back in the day as a small side project only so there is a bargaining chip in case Russia bans the export of RD-93 to equip the JF-17. The entire effort was mainly a hedge against Russia essentially scraping the entire JF-17 program all the way from Moscow in a single decision. It's possible that Russia only agreed to supply Pakistan with the RD-93 solely because the WS-13 existed. China would lose out in this a bit because it wouldn't be able to supply Pakistan with an "Pakistani" fighter whereas Pakistan would lose a lot more. Russia can miss out on those sales if India happily makes up for it. With the WS-13, the Russians could choose to make the RD-93 sales or choose to buckle under Indian lobbying or they could just make a few hundred million (gross profit) by supplying the hundreds of RD-93s. China had no real use for the WS-13 and never really wanted or needed to complete it if it was incomplete. So this understanding of the situation is quite flawed.

For the "export success" part, it's not a simple black and white! It is not simply a matter of; oh I have my own engines to equip and you can now buy it without worrying about supply restrictions. Customers don't line up to buy JF-17 immediately after China declares WS-13 or WS-19 operational and reliable. It's a step by step, year on year development, and after all is said and reviewed, then if a customer truly requires a WS-13 or whatever non-Russian alternative, only then should it be finalised. You don't start a ridiculous financial venture with the philosophy of "build it and they will come". That's going to result in failure far too often for such an investment to be justified.
 

Deino

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Guys ... neither the WS-13 nor the JF-17 have anything to do with the J-15. Continue in the engine thread.
 

MrCrazyBoyRavi

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And why should China expand limited budget to developed WS 13 when JF 17 is not in service with PLAAF? Pakistan does not want WS 13 engine she choose RD93 engine. China better spend the money bringing WS 19 in service because it is better engine with better performance and take advantage of the latest development in Engine engineering
Wc back heindrik. You were missed
 

free_6ix9ine

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An excellent interview with WHO fact finding team as to how China deal with this Corono virus and No they don't lie or hide the data . But the most important thing is to identify, track an isolate Corono virus carrier
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Julia Belluz
Okay, so most of the measures used in China to stop the virus were traditional public health moves that are broadly accepted — and the draconian measures were rarer. Is there any sense of what in China’s toolkit was most effective?

Bruce Aylward
I think the key learning from China is speed — it’s all about the speed. The faster you can find the cases, isolate the cases, and track their close contacts, the more successful you’re going to be. Another big takeaway is that even when you have substantial transmission with a lot of clusters — because people are looking at the situation in some countries now and going, “Oh, gosh, what can be done?” — what China demonstrates is if you settle down, roll up your sleeves, and begin that systematic work of case finding and contact tracing, you definitely can change the shape of the outbreak, take the heat out of it, and prevent a lot of people from getting sick and a lot of the most vulnerable from dying.

Julia Belluz

But, again, China implemented so many different measures at once. How do we know contact tracing was more important than, say, the mass cordon sanitaire and shutting down cities?

Bruce Aylward
Think about the virus. Where is the virus, and how do you contain the virus? You know the virus is in the cases and in the close contacts. That’s where the majority of the virus is; that’s where the majority of the focus should be. China did a whole bunch of things, and other countries may have to do them, too, as they go forward. But the key is public information and having an informed population, finding those cases, rapidly isolating them. The faster you isolate them is what breaks the chains. Making sure close contacts are quarantined and monitored until you know if they’re infected. Somewhere between 5 and 15 percent of those contacts are infected. And again, it’s the close contacts, not everyone.

ulia Belluz
Can we trust China’s data?

Bruce Aylward
The big question is, are they hiding things? No, they are not. We looked at many different things to try to corroborate that cases are dropping. When I went to fever clinics and talked to people working there, they’d say, “We used to have a line out the door, and now we see a case once per hour.”


According to the national data, fever clinics went from seeing 46,000 people per day at one point and it’s now down to 1,000. So there’s been a huge drop in numbers into the feeder system
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Second thing: When talking to physicians in hospitals, I heard again and again that we have open beds, we can get people isolated even more rapidly. I heard that in Wuhan and other provinces. The third thing: I talked to people running clinical trials of drugs, and they are having a problem recruiting patients. All these things helped corroborate [China’s data].

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Good to hear, but I think this is the wrong thread.
 
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