After years of knowing crobato’s fine time-line of Chinese FLANKER-service I stumbled across this passage:
2002 June. There was an acceleration of production in SAC, XAC and CAC plants with full 24 hour shifts. This suggests a major effort to increase J-11 production rate to as high as 30 to 40 a year . It was reported that four “case hardened” J-10s have joined an SU-27 unit for evaluation and had mock dogfights with SU-27s.
The J-11 are’n build at Chendu’s CAC plant !!!??? … it only means that production in all factories has been accellerated .. in CAC for the J-10, in XAC for the JH-7A and in SAC for the J-11.
Quite funny as this – like my mis-interpretation – can be found on several other sites stating that the J-11 is now froduced at three factories.:D
Cheers, Deino
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