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The J-20’s Radar testbed spotted again ….
Nice pic there.
But your post made no sense whatsoever..
Quote me a post from JSR, that makes sense !!
Reportedly the first serial J-16s were introduced into PLAAF-service …
That;s what reserve vehicles are for :).
I think we have gone enough off the ‘Russian Air Force” topic however.
Yes … and therefore again the question: when will we see the next prototype ?? and is the lack of recent news, images and general information based on the fact that the RuAF and Sukhoi have better things to do than to inform us due to intense testings or is there indeed a lack of progress at all ?
Deino
With now tread 14 already open I think we should close this one !!
Maybe interesting: Russia’s Warplanes, by Piotr Butowski, is going to be the second title to be released by Harpia on 22 October this year.
http://www.harpia-publishing.com/futurebooks
https://www.facebook.com/309173565988/photos/a.413527050988.193148.309173565988/10152683566555989/?type=1&theater
Via Tom Cooper:
Russia’s Warplanes is set to become the standard reference work on the subject. Written by an acknowledged expert in the field, this will serve as an exhaustive directory of the latest products of Russia’s military aviation industry. As well as outlining aircraft that currently equip the various Russian air arms, the first of two volumes also takes into account aircraft developed for and fielded by foreign states in the post-Soviet era.
Piotr Butowski provides authoritative technical descriptions for each military aircraft – and every significant sub-variant – currently available from Russia’s aerospace industry, or otherwise in large-scale service. With the level of accuracy and insight familiar to Harpia’s regular readers, each aircraft profile also includes specifications, and details of operators, upgrades, avionics and weapons.
The first of two volumes on the subject presents in-depth coverage of tactical combat aircraft, trainers, Army Aviation helicopters, reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft, airborne command posts and relay aircraft. As such, the breadth of this work extends from the latest multi-role fighters developed by Mikoyan and Sukhoi, via successive generations of combat rotorcraft, to airborne early warning and electronic intelligence-gatherers.
As well as familiar types such as the Su-30MK family of fighters and Mi-24/35 assault helicopters that have proven so successful on the export market, Russia’s Warplanes extends its reach to the various new and upgraded types that are beginning to populate Russia’s rejuvenated air arms, including those still under development, including the enigmatic ‘fifth-generation’ Sukhoi T-50 fighter.
Additional assets, including long-range bombers, maritime aircraft, strategic transport and tanker aircraft, theater and special purpose transports, and air-launched weapons will be dealt with in Volume 2.
Supplemented by many photographs, some of which from exclusive sources, as well as specially created maps and diagrams, Volume 1 of Russia’s Warplanes launches the most comprehensive study of the fixed- and rotary wing aircraft types – manned and unmanned – that can currently be found in Russian service or which are being built or offered for export.
Deino
J-20 conformal array radar?
http://idrw.org/clues-to-j-20-stealth-fighters-radar-system-seen-on-internet/
Forget that BS … this report is a simple copy & paste stolen from a report published at first at WantChinaTimes – to admit my most favourite page ! :highly_amused: – and they did not even note that the aircraft shown is simply the F-22-testbed.
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20150422000033&cid=1101
Anyway as far as most reliable observers and sources say, the revised prototype 2001 (later 2004) and 2013 + 2015 all have a radar already installed. Additionally the mentioned Tu-204C is fling since some time and just received a few more modifications (like a wing on top of the fuselage) …. but since we do not even know anything official about the J-10’s or J-11B’s radar, why should be expect to know anything about this new system ??
Deino
There is also the J-15S which Deino did not mention – basically a product of mating between Su-33 and a twin-seater which gets you something that looks like an J-11BS, but with IFR probe, IRST moved to side, canards, naval landing gear, naval wings/flaps and tailhook. As if the Flanker series needed even more confusion.. :applause:
Deino, most versions are quite clear to me, except the difference between J-11BS and naval J-11BSH.. Can you enlighten me here? Thanks.
Indeed, the J-15S I have missed … however this image is a PS-fake !
J-16 is Su-33 clone. Different center of gravity. Different wing control surfaces. Sure it’s similar looking to Su-30, but their flight control systems are unique to its dissimilar design.
Sorry, but please check at least the basic facts.
J-11/J-11A = basic Su-27SK
J-11B = modernised J-11B + Chinese Systems (avionics, engine, weapons)
J-11D = MLU-program …
J-11BS = Su-27UBK combined with J-11B-upgrades
J-15 = Su-33 clone if You like to tell it this way !
J-16 = Su-30MKK clone if You like to tell it this way !
Deino
A further improved variant of J-11B in the same class of American F/A-18E has been under development at 601/SAC as J-11D. It features a new AESA radar and FBW systems which are thought to be based those of J-16. New generation of AAMs can be carried including PL-10 and PL-15. More composite material was used in its wing and tail sections. It might also have a RAM coating in order to reduce the RCS but this has not been confirmed. The AESA radar was speculated to have been developed by the 14th Institute and was tested onboard a J-11B radar testbed in 2014. The first J-11D prototype (D1101) took off successfully from the SAC airfield on April 29, 2015, powered by two WS-10A engines. Its forward IRST/LR appears to have been offset to the starboard side of the windshield, suggesting an IFR probe was installed on the port side, an arrangement similar to that of J-15. It is possible the earlier J-11Bs could be upgraded to the D standard in the future.
http://chinese-military-aviation.blogspot.de/p/fighters-ii.html#J-11D
Upps … seems as if an US-2 had a severe mishap yesterday 🙁
http://slide.mil.news.sina.com.cn/h/slide_8_260_35451.html#p=1
On April 28 at about 3 o’clock in the afternoon, local time, and Japan maritime self defense force a US-2 seaplane in Kochi folding foot promontory at sea about 35 kilometers northeast of training, accident crashed into the sea. All 19 people on board were rescued, 4 persons were slightly injured.
Deino, do you know more about this?
Here it is … indeed a €F Typhoon against a F-16, so not related to the J-10. Look at this video at around 20. sec.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xjg2u2_dogfight-f-16-vs-eurofighter_tech
Deino
Deino, do you know more about this?
Ohh … sadly not, but it looks interesting !
Do You have any more information on it besides the added text ?
PAF ZDK-03 no. 4 finally spotted !