The funny thing is only thst you so far preferred to ignore this new prototype. First with an alleged "it is a ps" claim and later with nothing ... But please: Why does CAC fits a non-TVC WS-10-variant on the J-20 if your alleged super-duper engine exists???
I'm eager to learn yet another excuse.
And please beware of rwisting words and faked quotes ...
Deino
"But please: Why does CAC fits a non-TVC WS-10-variant on the J-20, if your alleged super-duper engine exists???"
The first two pictures ARE fakes. The faker must have heard of something, and then go home and faked these two pictures.
As I have said in my earlier post.
Although, I believe the testing of Ws-15 with J-20 is completed, and went into LRIP production, but the problems of mass producing the WS-15, may not have solved. It may take several more years to acquire enough experiences and skills or workers to ramp up the productions of WS-15 with reliable quality components.
24 J-20 per years, will require 48 WS-15 engines a year. I don't think the Liming Engine Factory has this production capability yet.
From the CCTV documentary, it is strenuously emphasized that the final assembly of the jet engine, is still done entirely by hands, by highly skilled technicians.
I did not entirely discounted the possibility that J-20 will equip with WS-10,
temporarily, to keep up with the J-20 production, as the serial production of WS-15 is still need some times to work it out. Those J-20 equipped with WS-10 could be used for basic familiarity flights for new J-20 pilots, which do not requires the full set of capabilities, like supercruise or supersonic maneuverability.
If that is true, then this is a
genius solution, for buying some times, to solve the WS-15 mass production issues, without holding back the training of new pilots, and production of the J-20.
"The funny thing is only thst you, so far preferred, to ignore this new prototype."
The truth is it is too early to make conclusions based on a few pictures. That's why I choose to make tentative comments only.
I have communicated with @
Figaro about this possibility through private messages,
before you have pointed out the second pic was a fake.
A new possibility of why J-20 is fitted with an variant of WS-10, has emerged.
China might be producing an
export variant of J-20 for Pakistan, with a downgraded engine of WS-10, so the secrets of J-20 and WS-15 will be not be leaked out. This is what USA should have done. But choose not to do it, in favor of exporting F-35. Now their key allies will be stuck with this inferior plane, instead of the mighty F-22 Raptor.
We will heard more about that in the future, if that is true. Pakistan has expressed strong interest in obtaining J-20 from China.
We don't know anything about this WS-10 variant on the newer J-20. Is it the 125kN Ws-10a, the 145kN WS-10B, or some new WS-10 variants with 160kN or even 180kN. We don't know.
To make any conclusion is premature. To say this appearance of WS-10 on J-20
proves that J-20 was using a Russian Engine, all along, is simply ludicrous.
Why? I have asked. And you said if Ws-10 was not even installed on J-20 before, how could WS-15 be already installed on J-20, so J-20 must be using AL-31? ( I don't remember Deino's exact words, but that's the general direction of his argument.)
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WS-10 was not ready or the Chinese don't know how to install Ws-10 on J-20? How could anybody ignore the fact, that hundreds of J-10 and J-11s have been flying with WS-10 for years, already? That don't prove WS-10 was ready and the chinese engineers knows how to install their own engine?)
And by leap of imagination and logic-free way, you got the
"proof" that J-20 was using AL-31 all along, and continue to totally ignore, the long list of evidences, me and others members, have provided over the years.
(May 2006)
