Chengdu J-10 Multirole Fighter Air Craft News & Discussions

[Donatello]

No twin seaters for the J-10B version?

 

[SBD-3]

J-10B with SDBs, Fuel Tanks and Combat ready Missiles.

 

[mosu]

J-10B with SDBs, Fuel Tanks and Combat ready Missiles.

again beautiful pictures where from u getting these brother

 

[SBD-3]

again beautiful pictures where from u getting these brother

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[SBD-3]

 

[Bratva]

counted 11 loaded hardpoints and 2 unused hardpoints. These 2 unused hardpoints are in a weird location. Dual racks blocking their access. If something singular put in that place, i think it will still cause trouble to that hardpoint

 

[Donatello]

counted 11 loaded hardpoints and 2 unused hardpoints. These 2 unused hardpoints are in a weird location. Dual racks blocking their access. If something singular put in that place, i think it will still cause trouble to that hardpoint

I think the part you are mistaking for an unused hardpoint is actually a 'flap track fairing' which encloses the actuator/mechanism for the deployment of flaps.

 

[razgriz19]

counted 11 loaded hardpoints and 2 unused hardpoints. These 2 unused hardpoints are in a weird location. Dual racks blocking their access. If something singular put in that place, i think it will still cause trouble to that hardpoint

J-10 has only 11 hard points.
those two points behind the dual racks are just actuators for ailerons.

 

[DANGER-ZONE]

Woah.. 10031 undergoing minor modifications and Pilot tube has already been removed.
10031 is the very first J-10B PT as I remembered. Its really a lovely jet.

 

[sancho]

J-10B with SDBs, Fuel Tanks and Combat ready Missiles.

Afaik that are only trial or dumb bombs and this is not a realistic combat config either. The fuselage hardpoints have weight and size restrictions which doesn't allow to carry guided bombs and you can see it in these pics pretty well. The gear bays are the limiting factor here, not to mention that the forward hardpoints are basically podstations.
However, that's why the twin pylons at the wingstations are so important for J10, because it might need to carry 2 fuel tanks on any strike mission. The downside is, that there is no hardpoint left for BVR missiles, which means you need dedicated escort fighters as well.

 

[TaimiKhan]

Afaik that are only trial or dumb bombs and this is not a realistic combat config either. The fuselage hardpoints have weight and size restrictions which doesn't allow to carry guided bombs and you can see it in these pics pretty well. The gear bays are the limiting factor here, not to mention that the forward hardpoints are basically podstations.
However, that's why the twin pylons at the wingstations are so important for J10, because it might need to carry 2 fuel tanks on any strike mission. The downside is, that there is no hardpoint left for BVR missiles, which means you need dedicated escort fighters as well.

J-10 can carry the smaller guided weapons on these pods under the fuselage. Chinese have developed 50KG & 100KG bomb kits, which can easily be installed on these pods without any weight or height issue. They are not just for dumb bombs. The current picture is most probably of a testing plane J-10B with full load configuration possible with it.

PLA Guided Bombs

A J-10 with even WVR missile on the under fuselage hard points.

 

[sancho]

J-10 can carry the smaller guided weapons on these pods under the fuselage. Chinese have developed 50KG & 100KG bomb kits, which can easily be installed on these pods without any weight or height issue. They are not just for dumb bombs. The current picture is most probably of a testing plane J-10B with full load configuration possible with it.

Possible, but besides that are also hardly useful in most strike roles and it still depends on the lenght of the guidance kit (LGBs), if the gear bays are in the way or not. There are more chances for the podstations, since they are located in front of the bays, but then again for LGBs at least one station would be occupied with the LDP.
It's the same problem that the Mirage 2000-5 has as well, it can carry 4 xMICA or even 4 x AASM 250 at the fuselage stations, but longer missiles like Meteor, bigger AASM version or even the GBU 12 might be too long.

 

[DANGER-ZONE]

A J-10 with even WVR missile on the under fuselage hard points.

Its BVR Missile PL-12 Bro.

 

[farhan_9909]

each weighs about 200kg

which means the hardpoints are capable enough of carrying dumb bombs under 200kg,wvr, and bvr

 

[Donatello]

Woah.. 10031 undergoing minor modifications and Pilot tube has already been removed.
10031 is the very first J-10B PT as I remembered. Its really a lovely jet.

I think you mean Pitot.............it is still there, you need them for accurate air speed readouts.

But nonetheless, 1031 seems to be one fine bird.