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I totally express my serious reservations for giving 5th rank for J15 over Harier 2 and Su33 .This is laughable.
According to the Sina Military Network, that has (weirdly) criticized the Flying Shark calling it a “flopping fish”, the recent tests with heavy weapons have limited the attack range of the J-15 to a distance of 120 kilometers from the carrier: whilst it is said to be capable to carry 12 tons of weapons, when the aircraft is fully loaded with fuel, it can’t carry more than 2 tons of missiles and munitions, meaning that only two YJ-83K anti-ship missiles and two PL-8 air-to-air missiles could be carried (in an anti-ship configuration).
People’s Liberation Army Navy’s next generation carriers will have electromagnetic catapults that will safely launch heavy J-15s. The problem is the ski-jump ramp of the current, only PLA Navy aircraft carrier, that makes take off of aircraft exceeding 26 tons of total weight extremely difficult unless you have a more powerful aircraft, as the Mig-29K.
And And F35 even thou still at trainer stage you gave it 10th place ? And you give 5th place to J15 ?
The J-15's limited payload isn't a quality of the aircraft, but rather one of the carrier on which it serves. The MiG-29K and su-33 will suffer the same limitations just so long as they operate from a vessel with a ski ramp.
J15 won't be in s service in large numbers . Rather it could be an training platform . J20 and J35 will have under development for carrier operation since the range and play load carrying capabilities are very restricted as for as J15 is concerned .
There is nothing to suggest that the J-15 will be procured in limited numbers. All major navies of the world will continue to operate 4++ generation fighters as the mainstay aircraft well into the 21st century, and there's no reason why the J-15 would be exempt from this practice.
The aircraft will also be undergoing continual upgrades, including the installation of an AESA radar and strengthened landing gear.
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The J-15 might be a good carrier based aircraft but the Russian Su-33 is still slightly ahead in terms of avionics and radar as stated in the Russian Military forums
If the Su-33 had one iota of the aforementioned upgrades, then the Chinese wouldn't have bothered to develop the J-15, would they?
The Su-33 is on the verge of being replaced by the Russian navy itself, while the J-15 has been upgraded with all the new subsystems seen on the J-11B and J-16, including soon an AESA radar.