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Really??
These are the original prototypes ... and several operatiional one: The J-10SY for the Ba Yi), a J-10SH or ASH for the Naval Aviation and a regular J-10AS in PLAAF service. However there is not a twim-seater of the latest J-10B/C available.
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There probably won't be twin seater based J-10C until numbers of existing J-10AS/ASH trainers are no longer fit to fly requiring replacement. Or when more combat trainers required. If J-10A based twin seat trainers cheaper and convenient to build, then Chengdu scrap the plan for J-10C based twin seater. Export market demand would determine the twinseat variant as well.
US F-16D aren't many sort of rare in US inventory despite the USAF flown F-16 mostly in air to ground sorties. It is mainly because they are small and fly in high risk ground threat area in search and destroy, having just 1 pilot is adequate for small fighter with short combat radius below 300nm. Only Israeli and Singapore Air Force favors twinseat F-16D to safeguard their small borders conducting air strikes. Apart from these 2 countries, Turkish, NATO operators didn't emphasize much on twinseat F-16D as well. Newer F-16F didn't find much sales.
PLAAF & PLAN look into these factors and retain the twinseat J-10 as trainers
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