JF-17/FC-1 Fighter Aircraft thread

[asif iqbal]

Congratulations to all Chinese and Pakistani

this comes on top of the twin seater

big week indeed

let’s hope to see 3P-301 onwards

a milestone indeed

 

[siegecrossbow]

They carried missiles for the maiden flight?

 

[sequ]

Seems like there wil be other block III protoypes soon with full avionics suite. This protoype (3000) doesn't carry a radar I think because of the all metal nosecone.

 

[Pampa]

Possibily embedded ECM Antenna in leading edge slat, as J-10C...

 

[by78]

The HUD is different from J-20's.

 

[Mohsin77]

The engine nozzle, isn't that the same as RD-93? Is it possible the WS-13E is still in the pipeline?

The HUD looks amazing by the way.

p.s. It's awesome they met the deadline for the test flight in 2019 just in time.

 

[SinoSoldier]

I don't want to offend anyone ... No it was not in the same way the swept tail was not and so on! It was expected by some fan-boys, which forgot that the new tail was added due to the new front section. As such with still being a single seater, there was no need - and even more quite to the contrary - no reason for the swept tail.

But as I and several other reliable and reasonable ones expected - and it is not to mock anyone: I said since months, all fans will be disappointed, who expected a semi-stealthy larger, wider, bigger, and so on aircraft. It is more or less the same and the changes are mostly under the skin.

On the contrary I think an IRST sensor is perfectly reasonable to expect on the next iteration of a classic aircraft block. Kinda like how the J-10 evolved.

Nevertheless, it's also possible that it'll either be added on later or superseded by some additional sensor.

 

[SinoSoldier]

The HUD is different from J-20's.

Allegedly used a newer variant of the AURORA HUD seen on the J-20.

 

[SinoSoldier]

The engine nozzle, isn't that the same as RD-93? Is it possible the WS-13E is still in the pipeline?

The HUD looks amazing by the way.

p.s. It's awesome they met the deadline for the test flight in 2019 just in time.

WS-13 is a dead project. A possible future powerplant would be the WS-19.

Wait and see.

 

[Mohsin77]

As long as the IRST can be carried on a centerline pod or something

WS-13 is a dead project. A possible future powerplant would be the WS-19.

Wait and see.

WS19 would be better.... maybe in 2 years during the first major overhaul they can switch it out (if they've planned for it.)