I hope AVIC puts the L-15 forward.

… and have Cirrus build it in IOWA as S-115? with honeywell engines?
awesome! 😀

I would require a big shipyard. According to huitong, they have been building it in jiangnan since 2008. Where in jiangnan are they building it?

The entire Jiangnan complex on the west side of huangpu river in Shanghai was moved to Shanghai’s Changxin Island in the mouth of Yangtze river prior to the World Expo, 2 years ago. along with 2 other ship yard’s and expanded capacity. the CSSC pavilion in the expo was the converted Old JIangnan dry dock cmplex.

Changxin/and Chongmin Island is accessable by a tunnel/bridge complex across the Yangzte. quite a nice drive.

If one would take a drive, Just as you go out of the tunnel coming from shanghai the complex is behind your bank on the right. what you will see is a giant complex with a forest of cranes.
2 other ship yards and ZPMC’s complex is there too.

they have quite bit more capacity now. as the main limiting factor in the old Jiangnan Complex on the Huangpu river was the river itself. which limits the size of the ship can put out. (LPG tankers is the money maker, the bigger the better, not enough profit margin with smaller ships, all taken up by the smaller shipyards in Jiangsu/Zhejiang.)

yes

no big penalty on intake? pressure recovery?
masking the fan blades?
that’s crazy. 😮

One peice canopy is way the **** too expensive. one bird strike and it is gone.

@flateric

what is that thing you attached?

There are no real news about Japan. Eurofighter is pushing hard, but the chances are small. The Japanese are currently negotiating with LM about the potential purchase of the F-35, I don’t know whether a real competition is still going on or not, but it doesn’t look like that. Afaik the F-15FX (single seat version of the F-15SE) is offered as well.

thank you,
didn’t know about F-15FX.

is stealth a “hard requirement” for Japan?

also I understand it is a replacement for F-4EJ.
with F-15J, F-2, F-4EJ,
seems to me that japan can take this chance to consolidate it fighter structure and go for a simpler /cheaper hi-lo mix. and eliminate the need for a dedicated air-defence fighter as F-4EJ is currently is. Just continuously upgrade F-15s and go for a full-fledge Shinshin for a replacement.

seems to me just to tag it to “Waste” and “Imcompetence” really doesn’t cut it.
I mean military hardware and force structure is a multi-year, decade long process. in most countries in the west budgets are decided and aportioned on a year to year basis. there is not really effective way to buffer military procurement (or ANYthing in the budget for that matter) from economic fluctuations. This introduces uncertainty which inturn introduce waste, as people are forced into short sighted decisions based on whatever fiscal/political wind is blowing.

why not having a longer term sustained budget forecast. I hate to say this but someting like a 5-year/10-year/20-year over all economic plan with actual budget numbers to back it all up to introduce some stability is not a bad option. I mean companies routinely make multi-year planning like this. so are some countries in the east.

ah. I am guilty of being a central planning soviet am I.

Yes, the canopy can obviously be opened at will.

that’s a production plane. ready to get painted in PLAN livery.

any one happen to monitoring Jacksonville ATCs? hear anything exciting? 😀

they are doing alot of flight testing out there lately on their new GVI.

Burbank to Savannah in 3 hours 26 minutes

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