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Yeah you could doubt anything, so do I.
There's chance that J-11D, J-16, J20 developers can't make sure about the time of mass production.
A design always look advance in paper, the real performance is more important, and it seem that they can't make sure that on J-11D, J16, J20, J31... atm.
While Su-35 is the lively advanced design, although it's not new.
24x Su-35, equally an air squadron quantity, similar to S-300/S-400 purchase, could deploy to the most important site of China.
If the performance of Su-35 is as expected, we could expect there's next orders.
24x is normal quantity for first order.
And I am wrong to conclude Su-35 delivered on or about 2018-2020.
Maybe China ordered small quantity 24x for fast delivery, we expect in 2017.
Nothing suggests that the engineers aren't confident in the performance of the J-11D, J-16, or J-20? Likewise, nothing hints that their specifications aren't how they appear on paper.