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Why has it taken so long, almost 3 years from BII to BIII if the incrementals are so small? Does a new radar and FBW system take 3 years to validate?
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Can you gove me your background in aerospace to come up with that conclusion please?I've said this before, but adding a hardpoint for pod is the most this airframe can handle. As for aero, the current shaping is almost the most optimised for this aircraft. It has reached maturity with the B variant.
Some want stealth shaping and then have provision for generous hardpoints. It's not practical.
The Chinese love to play with stealth designs, but that's limited to trainers. PAF as an actual air force won't be party to such nonsense.
I think block 3 is serving in some small part as technology demonstrator for Azm. We know of AESA and have rumors of HMD and fly by optics (and some advanced flow control). I dont think many of these things were needed for B3 if we wanted to quickly get it out. I believe the purpose is to have B3 be the test bed for a lot of subsystem technologies that will feed into Azm (given how there is no physical Azm yet). I know this is an awfully optimistic opinion but I have my optimistic days too.Why has it taken so long, almost 3 years from BII to BIII if the incrementals are so small? Does a new radar and FBW system take 3 years to validate?
@Dazzler
The aircraft in the background is not even a JF-17 B.
I understand it's the FTC-2000 or something.
What will Ghizhao FTC 2000 be doing at CAC facility? They are different projects from different design institutes. Ghizhao competes with Hongdu and they both make trainers, not frontline fighters.
@Deino
Is J 35 program still going on?Why not J35.
What is the big deal, there are at least four different articles reporting the same.#Did you go through the article?
It's a fan made CGI but one hell of elegant CGI of JF-17 BLK-III .... posting it just because that find it beautiful
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Is J 35 program still going on?
Yes.
What is the big deal, there are at least four different articles reporting the same.#
At the end of the day it's not Block-3.
Why not J35.
Yes.