When it comes to the J-15 on Liaoning, there heaviest load I have seen is 2x YJ-83K and 2x PL-8 or 4x unguided bombs (500 kg?) and 2x PL-8.. Don’t know the weight of the YJ-83K and PL-8C but the export CM-802AKG weighs 670 kg and PL-9C weighs 115 kg.

Image-1: YJ-83K + PL-8

Image-2: YJ-83K + PL-8

Image-3: unguided bombs + PL-8

Image-4: unguided bombs + PL-8

Looks like the weapons load during testing does not exceed 2,500 kg.

ASQ-239 which includes active jamming and towed decoys.

http://www.baesystems.com/en-us/download-en-us/20160718215911/1434583878736.pdf

Thanks for that. Any specs on it? AN/ALR-94 is said to have a range greater than 250 nmi. I’ve heard when the F-22 is flying a certain altitude the AN/ALR-94 range is much higher. AN/ALR-94 supposed have the capability to help cue the AN/APG-77 to very specific narrow beams. Narrow beams allow for greater range and less detectability. There were rumors sometime back that the AN/ALR-94 can provide an AIM-120 with most of the information it requires with fairly good accuracy.

There has to be a reason why the F-22 was never exported despite at least Japan showing interest in it. F-35 does not have that restriction. So, at least in BVR battle I’ll happily take the F-22. WVR is another story.

Yak-141 only makes sense for Marine Corp like forces, I think. To be deployed on small carriers, anywhere the VTOL comes in handy. Don’t forget the Yak-141 could only carry 2,500 kg – 3000 kg of external stores. MiG-29K up to 5,500 kg and the old Su-33 up to 6,500 kg.

For Kuznetsov and cancelled Ulyanovsk class carriers Su-33 would do and in the future the Naval T-50 for Project 23000E. The problem with the current Su-33 in RuN is that they are old. If those Su-33 got some of the capability of the Su-35S then I don’t see why the RuN needs the MiG-29K. Its a bigger plane with greater range and firepower.

I still can’t get over how long the Weapon bay door’s are on the J-20, they will probably need all the space inside for the new long range missile if current estimates are correct. And another thing, what happened to the PL-21 missile? Disappeared or was this new missile the PL-21? Help! :confused:

The ramjet PL-21 has been MIA for sometime. According to rumors the PL-21 was test fired from a J-16 march 2016 – http://chinese-military-aviation.blogspot.com/p/missiles-i.html#PL-21. In-contrast the PL-12G (or at least an early iteration) has had images leaked since 2011. It looks like the PL-12G will be the AIM-120D of the PLAAF and PLAN.

Footnote: I will stick to Hui Tong’s designation of PL-12G since it appears to be a design evolution of the basic PL-12 while the designation PL-15 is more suited for the new large VLRAAM spotted on a J-16 recently.

J-10C armed with PL-10 and a new missile. This is believed to be the actual PL-15. The images of the J-16 carrying an VLRAAM is something else.

PS: It seems the person who leaked the blurry J-10C photo you see here has had his accounts (weibo?) disabled :eek::eek::eek:

i suspect India was threatened into buying those rafale, Parrikar certainly didnt want them but was ordered to defend the purchase

What do you mean threatened?

Given the significant progress in CATOBAR capability (the J-15 and EMALS type launcher), shouldn’t the next carrier have been CATOBAR instead of STOBAR?

Carrier Type-002 would be CATOBAR. But don’t forget the, the catapults started testing only recently. So it will take time for them to actually go into production. In the mean time, STOBAR Type-001A will have to do.