Chengdu J-10 Multirole Fighter Air Craft News & Discussions

LKJ86 · Apr 17, 2019

J-10C

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J-10A

Ali_Baba · May 12, 2019

Can the J10A series be upgraded to J10C ? Are there major structural issues that would prevent it? Looking at the J10A intake, and how much better the J10C will operate, is there scope for a midlife upgrade that brings J10A to J10C standards?

The avionics and weapon system upgrades, alone are worth doing. Question is if structural upgrades are possible.

lcloo · May 12, 2019

Ali_Baba said:
Can the J10A series be upgraded to J10C ? Are there major structural issues that would prevent it? Looking at the J10A intake, and how much better the J10C will operate, is there scope for a midlife upgrade that brings J10A to J10C standards?

The avionics and weapon system upgrades, alone are worth doing. Question is if structural upgrades are possible.

Instead of upgrading fully to J10C spec, early batches of J10A is expected to be upgraded mainly on electronic sensors only. Structural upgrade is too expensive. Money allocated under military budget would be better spend on newly build J10C, J16 and J20.

Old J10A would soon be redeployed to second line defence, replacing J7, J8 and may be SU-27SK and early batches of J11. Production of J10A started in 2002, so some of them will soon reach retirement age anyway and may not worth to upgrade them.

Han Patriot · May 13, 2019

lcloo said:
Instead of upgrading fully to J10C spec, early batches of J10A is expected to be upgraded mainly on electronic sensors only. Structural upgrade is too expensive. Money allocated under military budget would be better spend on newly build J10C, J16 and J20.

Old J10A would soon be redeployed to second line defence, replacing J7, J8 and may be SU-27SK and early batches of J11. Production of J10A started in 2002, so some of them will soon reach retirement age anyway and may not worth to upgrade them.

They are almost 18 years old, yet the LCA is still not fully accepted by IAF. Amazing.

rcrmj · May 13, 2019

J-10A recieves small upgrades every 2 to 3 years`````the first patch of J-10A is quite different today than what it was first rolled out of the line````every 5 to 10 years, they will recieve major upgrades.