Buffalo!

I love this fat, little plane!

With the Finnish Swaztika

Very nice! 😀

Originally posted by crobato

N. DS (Dinsheng China) – forums. A+ for picture leaks. D for photoshop pranksters. Overall – C. Authentic Chinese miltary forum.

O. WMF (World Military Forum) – A+ for picture leaks, D for PS pranksters. Overall – C. Authentic Chinese military forum.

I wouldn’t even give the PS guys Ds, they’re pretty good 😀

The PS pictures are usually marked as fakes and are there for their own amusement. Only when people from outside the Chinese world grab their stuff and the attached notes get lost do they get passed as the real thing.

Actually, those two and other Chinese language forums are where we get all the pictures of the non-officially published material.

Most of those guys in the forums (and there is good amount of gals unlike here) never go to English forums. They could care less if anyone outside the Chinese world ever saw the J-10/052/Type 98/JH-7A pictures.

So I would never give them a poor grade. They never intended any of their picts, PSed or real, to be used in the English-languaged internet and we are the ones who grab stuff from them.

If it weren’t for them, we’d have nothing except for those of us with relatives who have access to Chinese magazines and TV. Everyone of the English world sites, Huitong’s, CDF, CMF, here at AFM ultimately depends on picts from those and other Chinese forums.

So we in the English language world who are interested should be appreciative 😀

Nanjing got the first 10 according to Janes. But Huitong reported that the first 10 went to CFTE which is in Yanliang in Shaanxi province, near Beijing.

Rick, your quess could be one theory if the 44th is first operational squadron instead of the one at Nanjing (29th?). The other is the plane is yet to be unveiled and an operational squadron training with the type over the east coast would be too much in view.

Yunnan is pretty much secluded along the Laos border. Also Huitong also reported that most of the Su-27UBKs are stationed in Chongqing which is in Szechuan and and just as far away from the east coast.

Originally posted by |guanA
kya bidu:
Yesterday, I had a look in one of the Indian military fourms and I was shocked by the amount of garbage that was said. Most, if not all posts were biased, patriotic and sometimes just down right racsist towards China.

Guan, you will learn over time that many of the same people at those Indian forums bring their prejudices here.

The best solution is to ignore them as much as possible.

Originally posted by google
Here’s the full article- it mentions the J-10s as being powered by AL-31FNs.
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In a related development, an authorative source within China’s military industry has also confirmed to JDW that the air force’s first 10 AL-31FN-engined J-10A fighters were deployed with the country’s Nanjing Military Command during August 2002 for training activities. The PLAAF’s first two-seat J-10B fighters will enter manufacture next year, featuring enhanced air-to-ground and maritime attack capabilities.

Thanks Google!

Great article, not only did it point out the initial J-10A deployment more than a year ago in August 2002 but also talked about the J-10B which the Chinese forums have reported taking off a few weeks ago 😀

Also, the work on a TVC WS-10A derivative.

Lots of good info that most of us had already known ahead of time in the Chinese forums but nicely confirmed by Janes for the non-Chinese world 😀

Then this color