Chinese Flanker Family: J-11, J-16 ... Su-27SK/UBK, Su-30MKK

[Deino]

New photo of J-11D. If you increase the brightness of the image, you can make out a canted radome.

Courtesy of Oneninety.

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Indeed ...

 

[aliyusuf]

 

[GiantPanda]

PLAAF decided to keep a single-seater to go along with the J-16? Also looking like the Navy will get J-15D with twin seats.

So SAC will end up with four flanker variants being built into the immediate future -- J-11D/J-16 and J-15T/J-15D?

 

[Deino]

PLAAF decided to keep a single-seater to go along with the J-16? Also looking like the Navy will get J-15D with twin seats.

So SAC will end up with four flanker variants being built into the immediate future -- J-11D/J-16 and J-15T/J-15D?

Actually we don't know when this image was taken, so that assuming, SAC still builds single seater AF-variants is a bit premature.

 

[Deino]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1478853206478409728

 

[S10]

New photo of J-11D. If you increase the brightness of the image, you can make out a canted radome.

Courtesy of Oneninety.

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I heard a rumor that J-11D is an upgrade kit for existing J-11B rather than new planes.

 

[lcloo]

I heard a rumor that J-11D is an upgrade kit for existing J-11B rather than new planes.

Make sense, production of J11 should be at the end. Upgrading existing J11A/B to J11D standard would take a few years, therafter the production lines should be retooled for making J31/j35.

Catapult variant J15 and J16 /J16D are probably the last of Chinese Flankers to be built with new air frames.

 

[Shotgunner51]

Wow, current active duty J-11B retrofitted with WS-10B, that's an interesting development! @Deino

https://twitter.com/x/status/1483342127354556424

 

[Shotgunner51]

When media attention is attracted to F-35C crash in SCS, J-11D was spotted in combat action for the first time after its public appearance. Two J-16D, along with eight J-16, one Y-8 ASW, two H-6 entered TW southwest ADIZ on the same day (January 24, 2022).

 

[Shotgunner51]

J-11B under Western Theater Command during an emergency support exercise in late January, 2022. Also see the details of WS-10A, PL-8 & PL-12.

 

[Deino]

J-11B under Western Theater Command during an emergency support exercise in late January, 2022

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WTC? ... so eventually 111th Air Brigade at Korla?

 

[Shotgunner51]

WTC? ... so eventually 111th Air Brigade at Korla?

Yes likely, 11B & BS could've been with 111th Brigade around 2012~2013 (when 37th Division 111th Reg merged with Korla AB) I think. Also see the details of WS-10A, PL-8 & PL-12.

 

[Shotgunner51]

J-16 under WTC in refueling exercise on February 20, 2022 (HiRes)

 

[Deino]

J-16 under WTC in refueling exercise on February 20, 2022 (HiRes)

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And even more important, it is a Batch 09 J-16!

 

[Shotgunner51]

And even more important, it is a Batch 09 J-16!

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Yes apparently 08 batch was just seen in January, and now 09, seems like PLAAF is inducting this at breakneck speed!