there was only one instance where the j-10 and mig-29 went head to head.
that was Myanmar. They chose the MiG-29
There was also a time when Chinese mbts went up against Russian ones. Russian ones won
also Myanmar is having yak-130 vs their chinese counterpart. I think the Yak may win.

Pakistan has also shown, when ever they can, they will choose Russian over Chinese.

Rumor wise PLAAF and PLAN DOES NOT want J-31. It is now said to be purely an export product designated FC-31. Even the JF-17/FC-1 is made by Chengdu (CAC) and not Shenyang (SAC). Confidence in SAC among PLAAF/PLAN is rumored to be pretty low, but SAC is said to have a lot of high-powered people including former military top brass supporting them. The fact that they got themselves in to the J-20 program as a subcontractor after handsomely losing out the J-XX competition is scary. Don’t forget even with the Russians, the relationship with CAC and SAC are complete opposites. CAC has had long-term and apparently good relations with Russian industry including access to AL-31FN series 3 engines (~138kN). Compare that to SAC who has an embargo imposed by the Russians for engines. Some J-20 design & tech might have been absorbed by SAC when producing J-31. You can see multiple similarities.

can’t blame the Russians. SAC pirated their design.

Well, I think we are only arguing about semantics.. In 2007, LM made it clear that they would be willing to sell the F-35 to India.. This came directly from Rob Weiss, LM Vice President for Business Development.. He never mentioned that the 35 would take part in the MMRCA competition, though..

That is, of course, possible, but why would you even apply for congressional approval if no deal is taking place due to lack of interest?

In short, there was an offer from LM. But the India’s reaction was not sufficient to start the whole clearance procedure..

india just reconfirmed, they don’t want it..

maybe because the chinese know all about it 😉

looks like the TEjas and F-16 made a baby

The bottom line is T-X is a training system and will have essentially no capability to perform air policing, CAS or other kinetic roles dreamed-up by forum posters.

that said, if some one really wanted to do that, the Leonardo and T-50 already offers that.
its just some people here are curious if the pure American offerings can also do that. and it seems thus far, maybe not.

As far as future air wars go it’s not clear why anyone would need two types of stealth fighters. Just having one type VLO fighter with sensor superiority would give an air force a force multiplier by using legacy fighters as deep magazine operating from behind. The money for J-31s would be far more than that required to upgrade and link China’s entire fleet of J-10s and J-11s as arsenal fighters.

you have a good point. the days of hi-lo may no longer be about size and range.

j-20 and j-10s seem good. but how will shenyang survive beyond flanker clones.