JF-17 Block-3 -- Updates, News & Discussion

[m52k85]

What % of each block is built from composite materials?

Since its conception, did CAC/PAC targeted a set % of the plane to be built from composite materials?

Sorry, not the right place, the project was never conceived as a high and fast and far flyer.

 

[FuturePAF]

Both are needed as per threat perception.

Chinese just developed its own version of the MALD. We should see if we can get an export version.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1446158566633598983

Chinese Flying Wing Drones Launch Swarming Decoys At Enemy Warships In Industry Video

A video presentation from the Aviation Industry Corporation of China points to new swarming drone and electronic warfare ambitions.

www.thedrive.com

 

[Big_bud]

Nothing really came out of the Zhuhai air show either, I was expecting more. No new leaks, no new information, no new pics. Still complete speculation. When is this mystery plane gonna come out? And when some information is going to be available? Complete silence for some time now! This thread has been becoming quite slow! In fact the whole air force section is slow these days.

 

[m52k85]

Some more news on the Rd-93MA, can someone disssect it please?

Russia Embarks On New R&D Path to a Supersonic Transport | AIN

With Russian government funding, the country's aerospace sector wants to take supersonic technologies to new levels to make a new generation SST viable.

www.ainonline.com

Seems to contradict previous news.

 

[Keysersoze]

Some more news on the Rd-93MA, can someone disssect it please?

Russia Embarks On New R&D Path to a Supersonic Transport | AIN

With Russian government funding, the country's aerospace sector wants to take supersonic technologies to new levels to make a new generation SST viable.

www.ainonline.com

Seems to contradict previous news.

The only part I can see is the the "non after burning rd93ma" is that what you are referring to?
Otherwise the actual Rostec website refers to elements that are designed for single engined fighters. I would suggest that is more reliable.

 

[nana41]

Could China be insisting on ws-13 engine?

 

[m52k85]

The only part I can see is the the "non after burning rd93ma" is that what you are referring to?
Otherwise the actual Rostec website refers to elements that are designed for single engined fighters. I would suggest that is more reliable.

Yes that, and that it is supposed to be for transport aircraft.

 

[Keysersoze]

Yes that, and that it is supposed to be for transport aircraft.

Well I read the ROSTEC press release and they mention safety features for single engined aircraft. There might be a variant for the transport aircraft but the manufacturer it would seem they are designed for fighters as well. They might be looking at the new CHECKMATE fighter as a potential sale as well as the JF17/J31

 

[CriticalThought]

Actually you did not. I understand the principles. Now we should prove that ramjet has higher NEZ than rocket in every case. I'm sure Meteor has better NEZ than PL-12 but with PL-15 it is not so easy to determine. The PL-15 will receive a second boost and increase its speed to mach 4 again and can perform this boost as it closes the distance to target to some determined and desired range. It is mathematically impossible for us to determine the exact curves and relationship between NEZ and distance between missile and target.

Only person who agrees with you is an Indian who probably cannot even do basic calculus and to expect him to understand how NEZ is calculated? Come on. We need to know specific impulse, thrust to weight, engine thrust, burn time, potential energy, missile aerodynamics, and with assuming ramjet and rocket cases are both with totally identical settings of launch, optimum travel, and target movement.

I'll say again, it is impossible to determine which has higher NEZ with available information (1) and it is impossible to say ramjet is always got better NEZ than rocket (2). If Ramjet powered air to air missiles is definitely always better NEZ than rocket only, then China would only be using ramjet air to air BVR missile and the USA and Russia also would only use ramjet air to air BVR missile. Our ramjet technologies and available development resources are far greater than France. Yet none of these three countries prefer ramjet for many reasons only partly to do with performance not being much better than single pulse and against dual pulse who knows.




Dual pulse patterns we don't know. Maybe second pulse kicks in after 30 seconds of non accelerated flight. Maybe after 3 mins, maybe the burn time is 2 seconds or maybe 10 seconds. It could all be dynamic and depend on how missile's software calculates best intercept probability and does trajectory update and second burn in non-intuitive ways.

The standard escape maneuver is the same for all against all missiles. It is to turn away from and basically keep making missile turn and lose energy with updated intercept points. Maybe aircraft would reduce altitude and then climb due to climbing being hardest so you want missile to try and climb up to you so you must first reduce altitude so that it has to later climb towards you and this is much more energy costly than lateral movement.

NEZ for ramjet would not change. The only difference between ramjet and dual pulse is that ramjet sustains missile speed at around mach 3. Dual pulse missile will reduce to maybe below mach 2 while the aircraft is performing this. Then the dual pulse second burn will accelerate missile again to around mach 4. That's better speed than the ramjet powered one. Think about it like this. The missile is launched at around initial velocity of mach 1 from the fighter (let's assume) and first burn usually accelerate missiles to around mach 4 at mach 1 launch speed. For second burn, maybe the burn is just as long or longer who knows this is what I'm saying. And this second burn should accelerate to mach 4 again or around that. This is more final energy than the ramjet missile.

The dual pulse method uses 100% of available missile potential energy while the ramjet always uses <100% potential energy unless we are talking about ramjet missile out of fuel. If the ramjet missile is out of fuel, it is heavier and slightly less aerodynamic in comparison.

No matter how you calculate ramjet vs dual pulse, ramjet is less efficient in use of available energy. The question is how much each has in available energy. The answer is unknown since we don't know specific details.

I have done these sorts of calculations but not for NEZ type of scenario. We need data to have simulation.

But I can say the above and the above is correct and indisputed fact. Ramjet is less aerodynamic and would be heavier so when both missile types run out of fuel then the ramjet missile is disdvantaged if it needs to turn... if it needs to travel straight only then it has momentum advantage but this is not the case since the fighter will turn a lot. If neither missiles run out of fuel then the pulsed missile gets to use up 100% of available energy while the ramjet one still has some fuel remaining. Again in this respect it is a disadvantage.

The problem like I said already but will have to say again is that we don't know the specific details on how much potential energy the fuel and rocket or fuel and ramjet gives PL-15 and Meteor.

Now for the last question of NEZ. Proof that Meteor type ramjet style doesn't have significantly better NEZ is that USA, China, and Russia all prefer rocket powered missiles for BVR and even long range BVR missiles. We have all played with ramjet BVR missiles. I mean we all have any types of ramjet weapons. China even has many types of scramjet and sodramjet weapons and aircraft in testing and flying and landing too. I think if ramjet is distinctly superior, we would all be using such things since 1980s.

Maybe ramjet does in certain circumstance engagements offer clearly better NEZ but maybe those circumstances are rare and does not justify increased cost and time to build. Maybe ramjet only offer very slightly better NEZ and definitely doesn't justify increased cost.

To calcualte NEZ, it is again super complicated and even if we make some assumptions for the dual pulse rocket one, it can potentially still have better NEZ since it gets to accelerate to much faster speed than the ramjet missile and all at the end phase of flight where this speed is most important.

So end of flight the missiles will be at mach 3 for ramjet and mach 3.5 or so for dual pulse if both are just run out of fuel as they intercept target or if there is a tiny bit of fuel left.

OR end of flight the missiles will be at mach 2 or lower for ramjet and mach 3 or so for dual pulse if both already exhausted fuel for 20 seconds. The thing is that dual pulse would not allow itself to fire second burn that early and as long as is within its range, will fire second stage so that it has maximum speed upon interception.

When the PLAAF tested PL-12 based ramjet BVR missile, they would have determine it is just not worth extra cost. How much extra improvement over how much cost and then they never publicly pursued this. Ground up ramjet missile probably exists in PLAAF inventory since it's been leaked for nearly 10 years now. It might be a more long ranged missile and purposed for against large and slow aircraft. Smaller inventory for special mission cases.

For typical case, you need a lot of missiles rather than smaller number of slightly better missiles. Better is just better electronics and sensors and better fighter or stealth fighter.

One thing to remember is that a rocket powered small missile will climb much easier and faster than even a empty F-15 on full afterburner. So if the strategy of climbing at end is employed, the missile climbs much better when the rocket is kicking. That's the whole point of dual pulse. The rocket is back at the very end of interception flight.

I stand by what I said earlier, and I am not going to waste my time pointwise debunking this. But I will drop a pointer for anyone who is interested. Go to scholar.google.com and type in 'solid fuel ramjet missile'. You will get a wealth of information. Amongst them, these little gems:

(Emphasis added by me)

AIAA Aerospace Research Central

The flow and combustion process in solid fuel ramjet (SFRJ) are modeled and simulated. Then the performance of SFRJ such as thrust and specific impulse are obtained, and the results agree with that of theoretical research. The emphasis is laid on the effect of flight conditions and motor structure on the performance. Flight conditions include inlet temperature and flow rate of air. Paramters of motor structure include relative combustor length and relative step height. A simpel flight model of missile propelled by SFRJ is established, too. And the simulation result shows that the range of this missile is as 2~3 times as that of missile propelled by solid rocket motor (SRM).

(Emphasis added by me)

Enhancement in the lift force of the Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet (SFDR) with an increase in the controlling surface

The solid fuel ducted Ramjet systems (SFDR) are extremely capable of propelling high- speed missiles. They have a specific application in the configur…

www.sciencedirect.com

The solid fuel ducted Ramjet systems (SFDR) are extremely capable of propelling high- speed missiles. They have a specific application in the configuration of air-to-air missiles with a high degree of interception. It is a modification from the traditional solid fuel ramjet system by using an external duct for thrust variation. This system provides higher effectiveness against maneuvering jets compared to single and dual pulse rocket system as it can vary thrust by varying fuel and air quantity for combustion. Even though with high effectiveness, an enemy fighter jet that is having higher thrust engines can outmaneuver SFDR by gaining significant lift during the end-stage which reduces its killing probability; this emphasized the development of a new missile system that provides more lift during the end-stage. A new SFDR concept is proposed in the present work that can gain more lift. The provision of a deflector is made in the duct to study the lift characteristics. Optimum lift force was obtained from the detailed analysis. Moreover, the study was extended by changing the deflector dimensions. Fluent fluid flow analysis is performed in simulation software named ANSYS to study the lift characteristics. Before that, 3D modelling is done with the help of NX software.

 

[khanasifm]

In te res ting

80 miles or ~128 km vs pl-15e 90 miles/145km not much diff

How Sweden built what may be the world's best non-stealth fighter jet

The Swedish-made JAS 39 Gripen has come to serve as the modern mainstay of a number of second-tier air forces.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Riz]

 

[GumNaam]

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are these fan boy patches or are they the real deal from the PAF?

 

[Riz]

are these fan boy patches or are they the real deal from the PAF?

Dont know

 

[Daniel808]

Beauty and the Beast

 

[Trango Towers]

Beauty and the Beast

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Real beasts are the two Pakistan men working on the fighter...not even bothered by the beauties