14+? 😮 Honestly I havent seen that. There are several baby hornet with 12.

12 : 10 AIM-120, 2 AIM-9 – Link-1, Link-2
12 : 6 AIM-20, 6 AIM-132 – Link-1, Link-2 (From slipperysam)

Hui Tong has updated his J-20 entry : http://cnair.top81.cn/J-10_J-11_FC-1.htm#J-20

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Besides a large belly weapon bay for short/long-range AAMs (up to 6 PL-10, PL-12C/D & PL-21), two samller lateral weapon bays have been identified behind the air inlets for short-range AAMs (up to 4 PL-10)
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incorporates an advanced FBW (or FBL?)
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FBL? I assume thats Fly-By-Light?

PS:

2nd attachment show 2 J-10 with a Su30MKK

The gross pay of somebody in a position of Wing co. today should be around 75k INR per month including DA ,band pay ,grade pay , transport allowance etc. which comes to around 1700$ pm .That may be quite less compared to international standards [I have no idea about other air forces to be honest] but its quite a lot in Indian terms.Compare this to software engineers who can start anywhere from say 25k – 30 k pm(depends).

Really , 20000 INR is quite a ridiculous amount.

anyway OT.

What the heck! 75,000 INR per month is 180,000+ LKR! 😮 Thats a very good salary in this part of the world. Last year I couldn’t get that for the whole year 🙁

If it was 20,000 USD I could understand but 20,000 INR? Eh? :confused:

J-20 loadout anybody?

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I’m actually wondering if a weapons bay configuration like this is possible (like a forward and a rear ventral bay), simply because the J-20 looks a bit longer than the F-22 and PAK FA… but some pics show it roughly the same size as F-22, and others, like what Phaid posted show it a good third longer.

That weapons bay has very poor A-G capacity. It’ll face the same problem the F-22 faced. I hope the actual J-20 weapons bay would be much deeper allowing some decent A-G capability. One big problem with F-22 is the internal A-G capacity. 1000 lbs JDAMs, SDB and thats about it.

SLAF Kfirs in mid air collision 🙁

One pilot died in Kfir crash

Kfir Aircraft collide in Gampaha

For a long time Hui Tong mentioned a Salut 99M variant @ ~140kN would be used if a higher thrust WS-10 was not ready. He removed that once the J-20 flew and changed it to WS-1X.

But once the hi-res images started to flow in, I must say those petals look nothing like the WS-10 petals we’ve seen so far. Lot more like the AL-31 petals.

Even before we got the hi-res shots Maya said its flying with an AL-31 variant.

Maybe a variant of these? :confused: Link

I honestly don’t see a problem. CAC & Salut worked together before (J-10/AL-31FN). 100+ J-10s are flying. So why not use modified/uprated Salut AL-31F until the WS-15 is ready? WS-15 is said to be progressing smoothly but will be several years until it is ready for production

need what for? damn, X-32/F-32 need not

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http://www.jsf.mil/images/gallery/cdp/boeing/misc/cdp_boe_misc_014.jpg

Mod Edit: The third image was far too large for this forum. The link will have to do instead.

flateric,

Thats not the only compressor blocker available for the X-32. Here is another one : Link (Post)

There are several differences between the service version and the initial prototypes, especially the exhaust…..

any idea why the exhaust was changed? :confused: