Shenyang FC-31 / J-31 Fighter Demonstrator

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Atomicfrog

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tphuang said:
J-16 and loyal wingman can do that. J-10C is not well suited for the future PLAAF planning. It has really short range compared to J-20 and flankers. If you listen to people like Shilao and Yankee, PLA really likes larger aircraft. Been that way since Su-30 came along. That's probably why J-10C was never produced at the volume you'd expect for something of its capability.

In fact with loyal wingman, one might ask if PLAAF even need something like FC-31. Just procure 1200 J-20s and augment it with 3000 loyal wingman UCAVs and a bunch of J-16s for strike purposes.
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So low end fighters will probably be replaced by UCAV, it's the end of medium and small fighters more or less. Export still exist for a while.

FC-31 is probably near the cost of a J-20 with his twin engines... don't know if the decision do go for it or not would be to maintain level of different aerospace corporations. Cooperation look way higher in China between corporations so i'm not sure it could be the case. UCAV with AI will probably do the most of the work in a couple of decades.
 
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