And it looks like the JF-17 is blooded with a MiG-21 Bison and a Su-30MKI. At least, the Pakistani air force is confident of it.

Kill patches. Worn by a Turkish pilot as well at Pakistan Day ceremonies.

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JF-17 Manufacturer’s Stock Soars After Pakistan Air Force’s Success Against India

March 03, 2019

Squadron Leader Hasan Siddiqui of Pakistan Air Force (PAF), flying a Pakistan-made JF-17 Block 2 serial 15-201 fighter jet, shot down Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman of Indian Air Force (IAF) flying a Russia made MiG 21. Abhinandan was captured by Pakistan last week. The news has boosted the stock price of CAC (Chengdu Aircraft Corporation) which jointly developed JF-17 Thunder with Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC).

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Stock Market Reaction:

Within hours of the Pakistan Air Marshall’s tweet, the publicly traded shares of Shenzhen-listed Sichuan Chengfei Integration Technology (CAC-SCIT), a sister company of JF-17 maker Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC), rose 10% five minutes on Wednesday – hitting the maximum daily increase allowed on the Chinese stock market, according to the South China Morning Post. The shares in CAC-SCIT, which makes car parts, rose a further 10% on Thursday. CAC is not publicly listed. CAC-SCIT shares had dropped back 5.57% by midday on Friday.

JF-17 Export Potential:

The JF-17 recently won an export order from Nigeria. Next possible customer is Myanmar where JF-17 was recently seen in an air force parade. The New York Times has reported that a joint China-Pakistan defense manufacturing hubs in Pakistan is being set up to win new export customers among Muslim countries. Pakistan is already in talks with Malaysia for sale of JF-17s to Malaysian Air Force. There is potential to export close to a billion dollars worth of JF-17 Thunders.

PAF’s Tail Choppers:

Squadron Leader Hasan Siddiqui is a member of PAF’s 14 Squadron called ‘Tail Choppers’ which was officially re-equipped with Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) JF-17 fighters on February 16, 2017, according to AirForces Monthly magazine.

It will be an interesting 2018 looking for new test vehicles or variants of the J-10, J-20, FC-31, Y-20 and J-15 with domestic engines.

I think as important as the FC-31 airframe are the engines powering it. The V2 is smokeless (at least from the short video) unlike the original prototype.

The chinese blogosphere claims they are WS – 13Es. This would give them a working medium thrust turbofan.

The L-15 was deemed unwanted by the PLAAF as well but it is now accepted because there are domestic options for the powerplant.

China stronk crowd? What does that even mean? A group that doesn’t spam other groups is stronk?

Yes, the Chinese thread revolves mainly around new pictures (which is something Bacon never provides) and that is good thing.

It is trolls like Bacon that pretty much destroyed this forum for the serious watchers. Hardly any Chinese watchers (yes, that includes many white guys) participate here any more even though there are many, many major Chinese projects.

This is a prime case of the kind of attacks the Chinese gets from trolls like Bacon. Almost all Chinese observers had established the J-20 to be roughly the dimensions of a flanker a long time ago. Here Bacon is making up lies about an entire group of people “wanting” it to be 20m as a form of derision.

Having a highly respected, published member like Deino being attacked by a racist troll like Bacon who had never offered anything except insults and outright fabrications (Deino never said 19m) pretty much sums up the state we’re in.

Possibly! Depends if the fighter was designed around WS15 or not, differences between the dimensions of two engines etc. But I was referring to the rest of the airframe.

Probably not in the case of the J-20 since the aircraft was designed with the WS-15 in mind.

That said, since the J-10, the trend has been a decoupling of airframe and engine so that the airframe progresses even as the engine lagged.

good news about the engines. Once the Y-20 also gets its engines, we can seriously start talking about exports.
There’s a number of mid-eastern/north african countries and central asian countries that are in need of a replacement of their il-76s.

Unlikely that the Y-20 (and the WS-20 high bypass derivative of the WS-10) will be exported any time soon if ever.

The most likely exports of new Chinese engines would be the WS-13 for the FC-31 and JF-17 and possibly the WS-17 for the L-15.

It’ll take years (or maybe the entire manufacturing run) for Xian to supply enough Y-20s to the PLAAF which is deficient in lift.

http://mil.sohu.com/20160706/n458049903.shtml

Over 400 WS-10 engines were installed on J-11Bs, J-11Ds and J-16s by the end of 2015. Their record has been flawless without a single crash of WS-10 powered types.