Chinese Air Force (PLAAF) News & Discussions

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Experimental aircraft model ?

Looks like a model of the F-15

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

Experimental aircraft model ?

Since China can't have F-15 for real combat practice, a morckup simulation to obtaim some valuable informations on this aircraft is better than nothing.

 

[Sasquatch]

Since China can't have F-15 for real combat practice, a morckup simulation to obtaim some valuable informations on this aircraft is better than nothing.

Looks like the NASA F-15 without the canards, but you possibly could be right, probably hear of it more later.

 

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I got a video in which we can find this image, it's a kind of aircraft carrier landing simulation study...

 

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Training in 2013 is started...

 

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Training of J-10A...

Training of HQ-9 air defense division...

 

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Warplanes: Chinese Ejection Seats

Chinese Ejection Seats

January 9, 2013: China has developed and put into service a locally manufactured third-generation ejection seat for its jet fighters. This type of ejection seat contains sensors and a microprocessor that adjust the thrust of the rockets that propel the ejection seat (and the pilot) from the aircraft, taking into account the speed and direction of the aircraft. Most ejection seats in service are third-generation. The fourth-generation seats allow the pilot to control the movement of the seat while ejecting.

Ejection seats costs between $200,000-300,000. Most ejection seats weigh about half a ton and are complex bits of technology. There's a lot that can go wrong but rarely do you have accidents, and those are usually because of poor maintenance. Ejection seats became essential as military aircraft became so fast that a pilot could not safely climb out of the cockpit and jump. With the higher speed, there was the danger of hitting the tail. Also, escaping pilots were often injured or stunned and unable to get out quickly enough.

The first ejection seat design was developed in Germany, where the seats were first installed in their He 219 night fighters, in 1943. These used compressed air to propel the seat out of the aircraft. A year later rocket propelled seats were installed in the He-162 jet fighter. By the end of the war, all of Germany's jets were equipped with rocket propelled ejection seats. While the Swedish firm SAAB had also developed a rocket propelled ejection seat, it was British firm Martin-Baker that jumped in after World War II and created a design that quickly filled the needs of most Western air forces, including the RAF (British Royal Air Force).

The U.S. Air Force long insisted on using only American made ejection systems but the U.S. Navy stayed with Martin-Baker because the American ejection seat did not function as well at very low altitudes (where a lot of naval aviators have to eject during carrier operations). Martin-Baker supplies about two-thirds of the ejection seats for Western fighter aircraft. The other major supplier of ejection seats was the Soviet Union. Those Soviet era manufacturers continue to produce good ejection seats for Russian aircraft and some foreign customers. China is becoming a major player in this area, usually exporting Chinese made ejection seats in Chinese made aircraft. The Czech Republic and Romania also manufacture lower end ejection seats. Western manufacturers produce about a thousand seats a year, while Russia and China produce less than half as many, almost all of those seats are for locally made aircraft.

Over 10,000 aircrew have successfully used ejection seats since World War II. Very few have died in ejection seat related accidents.

 

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PAAF develops more and more it's MRO capacity, here a video broadcasted by CCTV today on a simulation exercice with a J-10A. We can see in the video that the MRO technicians uploaded the diagnostic datas to a special website which returns and prints out automatically the repair orders.

 

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The PLAAF of Nankin military region carried out a free combat training...

The general staff of Chinese army demandes all divisions to train in real combat condition...

Henri K.

 

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Skimming flight of Z-9 from PLAAF...

 

[Nishan_101]

does China has developed anything from Y-9 like of CN-295 or C-27J like twin engine plane.???

 

[CaptainProton]

Does China build strategic bomber such as B-2 or Tu-160?I think that China hasn't a strategic long-range bomber. But I heard that China is planning to build something like that. Russians have their project PAK-DA, USA plans to build a next-generation bomber "B-3". What about China?

 

[terranMarine]

Does China build strategic bomber such as B-2 or Tu-160?I think that China hasn't a strategic long-range bomber. But I heard that China is planning to build something like that. Russians have their project PAK-DA, USA plans to build a next-generation bomber "B-3". What about China?

China has the H-6 strategic bomber, its max speed is around Mach 1 unlike Tu-160 where it can reach Mach 2. A stealth bomber such as the B-2 could be in the planning but other projects have more priority.

 

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Xiomao WANG from CETC, chief engineer of KJ-2000 program, won the 2012's special price of State Scientific and Technological Award.

Henri K.