actually rafale is also selected for carrier operations and is in use with french navy. mig35 hneed more powerful engine because the mig is heavier and larger so it needs more power to lift such a heavy draggy airframe. but it cannot supercruise so obviously not enough power like rafale or eurofighter or even gripen. j10 has aesa and modern avionics, can beat mig35 easily.
Rafale is only one carrier and not too many fielded there.
MIG-29K is chosen for 3 carriers. One Russian and Two Indian carriers. It is the perfect aircraft for carrier operations. MIG-35 is not draggy platform at all. It has higher top speed and altitude than all delta canard planes like J-10/Rafale/EF.
It has large nose for AESA. and is in continous testing for past 6 years with 10 aircraft flying. It does not need Canards. It has option for TVC.
It is small poor man AESA supported by less powerfull engines.
china open up its economy in the 70s but russia had to wait until the 90s when the country crash to open up. so china has 20 year advantage ove rrussia in getting money, new technology, etc, etc. you can really see it in the design of the j20 and j31. they look like modern american 2000 design but pakfa looks like in between flanker and yf23 so somewhere in the 80s.
what has economic opening anything to do with fundamental research.
Canards is always late 1970s design. J20 heavily borrowed from MIG MFI. it is not new design.
see this large canards, wing design, lengthed nose. Every thing you see in J-20 is copied except intake got changed.
and above Plane standing taller from the ground..This is all copied data.
do you ever thought why these planes are not taller from the ground.
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