回复@左手王ZSW:自然不会是真//@左手王ZSW:曾闻言歼20使用的WS-10改进型是ws15的芯套了个ws10的壳...不知道是真是假
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what domestic engine variant is that? the j20a ws-10b has yet to take to the sky....
By the time pictures start surfacing with a domestic engine, they would have been testing the engines on J20 long before that. That's why official media was claiming it had domestic engine all along. To be fair to Deino, the media did not claim all J-20s were using domestic engines, they only said J-20s are using domestic engines.
Do you know if the PLAAF is satisfied with their performance as to enter batch production ...
What report Deino, it was only a picture to begin with and some commentaries from unknown sources.
So Pupu just refuted @Asoka's theory? Wonder what the latter has to say ...Another interesting theory here sometimes proposed by certain members also crashed like a house of cards.
Some said the current engine is a hybrid - or like I said FRANKENSTEIN - engine using the WS-15's core and parts from the WS-10 + AL-31.
With some help at the SDF, here's a verbatim translation:
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左手王ZSW asks pupu-2012, "I heard a rumor that WS-10 fitted on the J-20 has WS-15's core wrapped in WS-10's casing... Don't know if this is true or not."
pupu-2012 replies to 左手王ZSW, "Naturally NOT true."
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So contrary to what some fan-boys always potsed, Pupu unambiguously and categorically refuted it.
Oh, these are bad days for chest-bumping fan-boys.
Anyway, like others already said: A Chinese engine financial on the PLAAF's premier fighter is a great achievement and worth to celebrate.
Deino
I'm pretty sure it was leaked and confirmed by some "Big Shrimps", who possibly visited it on site. I'd trust them with these predictions ... that's what they do
That's obviously a WS-10X variant ... most likely a WS-10B.
No don't get me wrong Deino, I am not that naive, I believe the PLA tested many engines, AL-31, WS-X, etc. The point I am trying to say is if the news is out now, it would have been already done a year or two back. This is how Chinese military operates. They will only reveal something they had already done. That's why CCTV report does not contradict this at all nor doe sit contradict you. The CCTV report says that J20 is using a domestic engine, it didn't say no AL-31X were ever tested or evaluated or flown on J-20s before.
Testing different engines involves substantial internal redesign of an aircraft, especially since the Taihang series is quite different than the AL-31F series. It's not as simple as inserting them and switching engines at will ... which is why the J-20 probably has used the AL-31F series up until now ...
I would rather them be testing a WS-15 "Frankenstein" engine than the current WS-10X ... but it's a steep improvement nonethelessAnother interesting theory here sometimes proposed by certain members also crashed like a house of cards.
Some said the current engine is a hybrid - or like I said FRANKENSTEIN - engine using the WS-15's core and parts from the WS-10 + AL-31.
With some help at the SDF, here's a verbatim translation:
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左手王ZSW asks pupu-2012, "I heard a rumor that WS-10 fitted on the J-20 has WS-15's core wrapped in WS-10's casing... Don't know if this is true or not."
pupu-2012 replies to 左手王ZSW, "Naturally NOT true."
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End translation
So contrary to what some fan-boys always potsed, Pupu unambiguously and categorically refuted it.
Oh, these are bad days for chest-bumping fan-boys.
Anyway, like others already said: A Chinese engine financial on the PLAAF's premier fighter is a great achievement and worth to celebrate.
Deino
I am no engine expert, but judging by Chinese experimentation activities, I would not rule out Al-xx and WS-xx were tested, after all, physically WS-XX is similar to AL-xx? As for WS-15, that's too far fetched, maybe in the near future but definitely not now.
That not totally impossible sir their few example of that B-2 F-118 uses core and other tech from F-110, WS-10 uses the core of CFM-56 and its other techSome said the current engine is a hybrid - or like I said FRANKENSTEIN - engine using the WS-15's core and parts from the WS-10 + AL-31.
