Chengdu J-10 Multirole Fighter Air Craft News & Discussions

[houshanghai]

China Defense Blog: October 2011

video
PLAAF J10A exercised and droped laser-guided bombs on the Tibetan highlands

 

[cloneman]

More pictures from FY,the guy below is the FWS-10 chief designer

 

[aziqbal]

it will be interesting to see wether or not the new 8th PLAAF regiment of J10s will be equipped with J10As or J10Bs

 

[aziqbal]

300 or so Sukhoi's are in service, thus 600 engines alone are needed for them, then add to them the ones needed for reserve, atleast one engine in spare for every 2 engined fighter may be, so if the calculations are done, its a huge task.

In simple terms, WS-10 may have matured enough and gone through all the testing benchmarks, but getting them in production in large numbers may be the task for future, till then AL-31s are the alternate option.

PAF may get the WS-10 equipped jets, since our demand is not in huge numbers, as we would be looking for 2-3 Sqds and at themost may be 1 Sqd per year is inducted.

inncorrect numbers

currently 4 regiments of J11B are flying with WS10, thats 96 planes , WS10 is a matured engine with a almost perfect record

57 Regt, 19 Ftr Division
89 Regt, 30 Ftr Divisiion
111 Regt, 37 Ftr Division
22 Regt, 8 PLANAF Ftr Division

that leaves 14 Regiments of Flankers with AL-31, total 336 aircraft

currently 7 regiments of J10 are flying with AL31 not including the 14 with FTTC total 222 aircraft

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

The annual production of the TH engine is 200 right now, still not enough to cover our entire aircrafts of PLAAF.

 

[PakShaheen79]

can some one tell me about a more detailed video of same exercise that houshanghai posted above. please~! I loved the bombing but it is just one long shot.

 

[IceCold]

Come on man 338 pages of a thread in PAF section of something we don't even know when will join PAF or even if it will ever. This thread should be moved from here.

 

[Manticore]

an article of J10 from Spanish aviation magazine .


credits- houshangahi

 

[HANI]

A J 10 fighter during a recent Exercise ..........

 

[Zarvan]

Pakistan Should get the planed 150 J-10 B as soon as possible with JF-17 Block 2 PAF will be force to reckon

 

[ANG]

Pakistan Should get the planed 150 J-10 B as soon as possible with JF-17 Block 2 PAF will be force to reckon

Hi Mr. Zarvan, I have noticed you have stated that Pakistan should buy 24 frigates, 16 subs, and now 150 J-10Bs. I agree the PN and PAF are in dire need of new equipment, as they are majorly outgunned by India.

But, where is a broke nation like Pakistan going to get the money? Pakistan cannot even pay the interest on its loans, and is going to be begging the IMF for money in a few months. Do you honestly think they can pay for these weapons?

That's the irony of Pakistan, tries to act tough, but in the end has to beg the west for money. What a disgrace, how sad it is. This is a nation of 200M people, it could be such an economic power if it had been managed properly. These politicians and corrupt elite have destroyed that nation.

 

[abaseen99]

 

[SBD-3]

I think its third time we are watching the same pics on this thread.............

 

[fatman17]

I think its third time we are watching the same pics on this thread.............

over zealous posters but well meaning!

 

[Kompromat]

Chengdu J-10 Sinocanard


The J-10 is frequently labelled in the West,
especially the United States, as a “cloned Lavi”, yet
careful examination shows that it is a completely
indigenous Chinese design which owes more to
the evolved Chengdu J-7E/G Fishbed than it does
to the cancelled United States funded Israeli delta
canard fighter.

In the pantheon of contemporary fighters the J-10
occupies a similar niche to the agile European
lightweights, the Dassault Rafale, Eurofighter
Typhoon, and SAAB Gripen. It is however a unique
design with a delta planform derived from evolved
J-7 variants, an imported Russian Al-31F engine
from early model Flankers and unique chin inlets
and fuselage design.

The J-10 was China’s first modern fighter, and first
indigenous fighter not be be almost completely
based on imported technology. With an unstable
airframe and quadruplex digital flight-by-wire the
basic flight system is of the same generation of
basic technology as its EU built peers.
The first version to be built in numbers was the
J-10A, soon followed by the dual J-10S.

More recently imagery has emerged of the improved
J-10B prototypes. The most prominent change is
a much larger, higher massflow engine inlet which
appears to be a fusion of the 1960s LTV XF-8U3
Crusader III and the F-16DSI demonstrator, used to
prove the inlet design for the F-35 JSF.
The J-10 has yet to be exported, due to its
dependency on imported Al-31F engines. This will
change as the WS-10, a reverse engineered Al-31F,
matures. The J-10B will provide respectable
performance against its EU peers and the F-16,
while soundly outperforming the F/A-18 series.
All J-10 variants use an indigenous glass cockpit
design, and the J-10B is evidently intended to carry
an AESA of respectable size, as well as a nose
mounted Infrared Search/Track turret modelled on
the Russian OLS-30 series.


The J-10A/S currently equips several PLAAF
regiments. Public statements indicate the intent to
field around 1,000 J-10s as replacements for the
obsolescent day VFR J-6 Farmer and J-7 Fishbed.
The J-10 is small enough to fit into all of the PLAAF
and PLANAF’s 17 ‘J-6 sized’ underground tunnel
hangars, unlike imported Russian Flankers.


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