J-18 the Chinese harrier, yea right.

chinese f35 not harrier. china is beyond making harrier generation airplane. harrier generation probably korea.

China has very advanced airborne AESA radars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAJ9IK4Hxv4

http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/7083/zzzradar2.jpg

http://htka.hu/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/J-10B_AESA_02.jpg

I don’t think Chinese have avionics problems with J-31. Engines would be two WS-13 which are equivalent to F414 and generating 22,000 lb each.

there is many foreigners who think china cannot make aesa.

This class was plagued by mechanical problems and a tendency to spontaneously combust, resulting in short careers. Novorossiysk lasted only a decade as an operational vessel, for example.

and indian navy still buy it lol. russians good sales men

Sorry Frankvw, that was written the same time as your above post.

One would welcome facts or sources when people post their opinions, other than mainstream media, who are often reporting for the general populace, and thus get things wrong.

Back on topic…

What exactly is the status of the J10B?
I’m not talking about posters who say they are being ordered, I’m talking evidence of production and/or deployment.

For example, is the J10A still in production, or are squadrons still being formed with that plane?

first production batch of j10b already underway go look at Huitong for detail

J-11 flying over Mt Everest!

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Where is the tactical number? Doesn’t the presence of that signify squadron service?

that picture is one that was used for testing still but reflects prodction model version. first batch production version is now. s

News leaked out about this AESA radar mid 2011 by a Chinese source if I’m not mistaken, so it can’t be that old or much into the development stage, the same source claimed that this AESA has 1,100+ TR Modules, around the number of that similar to the Rafale’s RBE2-AA and whole lot less to what the Typhoon’s Captor-E will have. The AESA for Typhoon can be traced back to 2002, or to the late 90s if one wants to be pedantic. The CAESAR (not a Captor-E) first flew on a test BAC One-Eleven aircraft in early 2006 in sub-scale form and flew on Typhoon DA5 in mid 2007 in full scale form, with a number of TR Modules officially given as between 1,000 – 2,000, “unofficially” at around 1,400 – 1,500. The UK has it’s own AESA programme on the go named Bright Adder, the Captor-E ‘Radar 3’ will be built on this with the possibility of a new antenna array, for the RAF.

when you have picture of typhoon with aesa come back and post it.

first batch of j-10b finished production!