Well, with the inputs from Maya & Tphuang, I could re-phase some of my little chart as well as enrich it a bit.
Chinese Turbofan engines developed ( Including terminated and frozen) or under development:
-1. WS-6 by AVICI Liming, 1st attempt in 1980s by Chinese to tackle the turbofan engine, but failed due to the unrealistic goal and weak aviation and related industries then
0. WS-9 By AVICI XAC, licensed copy of RR spey, entered service with JH-7 & JH-7A
1. WS-10 by AVIC1 Liming: for J10/J11 3rd generation fighters and future airlifters. Certificated in Nov,2005, entered small scale initial production in 2006, expected to mass production in later 06 or 2007.
2. WS-11 by AVICII: for trainers like AVICII’s JL-8 ( K-8)
3. WS-12 by AVICI: in 1990s, Chinese started “Middle Thrust” turbofan engine project, the developed engine model under this scheme is called WS-12, however, due to the limited resources, in 1999, the WS-12 project is frozen to give priority to the Ws-10A project which runs parallelly. However, in view of the soon will be service WS-13 the WS-12 developed under “ middle thrust T/W 8 project” is unlikely to be activated again.
4. WS-13 by AVICI Liyang: based substantially on the core engine developed under the “ middle thrust T/W 8 project”, however, low pressure parts of the engine could combined a lot of RD-33 mature technologies and even components in order to fasten the development, expected to be certificated in the end of 2007 and enter service in 2008.
5. WS-14 by AVICI or II?: ?
6. WS-15 by AVICI: T/W 10 grade big thrust Turbofan engine could be
based on the GD35 core ?developed under the CJ2000 Chinese 4ht Gen high T/W Turbofan engine scheme. Officially designated as WS-15, is targeted to equip Chinese 4th Generation J-XX fighter which is under developments.
7. WS500 by AVICI: for UAV and missiles
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