Surely if this is going to be a naval aircraft or have a naval variant, it should come with some decent strike capability IMO. The J-35 can't carry much A2G internally due to a small bay and unless PLAN want to operate J-15T as their only strike aircraft well into the 6th gen era, I don't see why J-XDS won't have a robust multirole capability in its design.
Whats the difference. could be just the lighting?
That doesn’t necessarily require length at all. A new generation of strike weapons designed and optimized for future fighter jets are more optimal than trying to shoehorn old weapon systems Like cruise missiles and anti ship missiles into them. The Chinese likely have an equivalent to the Mako hypersonic missile to perform antishipping. The weapons bay only needs to be deep enough for this to work.
So TVC confirmed? Thats not WS-10/15?
A thrust vector nozzle can be mounted on any engine, it doesn’t mean it’s a completely different engine.
That's true, if PL-16 is already in service, that means the J-XDS will likely carry the missile that's a generation after it, considering it may be 6-8 years before J-XDS enters service, while the PL-15 entered service around the same time as the J-20.
