Hmmmm … :confused:
http://alert5.com/2012/11/02/photo-tandem-seat-j-15/
IMO I think that’s a SM and not a J-15S since it features the standard Russian wing-tip pylons (even if the J-16 has them too ??? ) and IMO it looks like having a long sting.
Waiting for more … on the other side the primer colour is different !
Deino
Hmmm :rolleyes: … just an idea but wasn’t it widely reported that the Y-20’s unveiling (or even first flight) might be “coordinated” with the 18th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party”, which is scheduled to start in Beijing on November 8, 2012. 😀
😎 So we might expect another surprise in nearly one week ????
Deino
Reportedly high speed taxi tests including an ‘aborted’ take-off (with only lifting the front wheels) was performed today … so maidenflight might be quite soon.
But I want images ….
Deino
😮
This is the 2001!
Why do You think so ???? …. I thought 2001 is currently at Xian-Yanglian.
Another mystery from today …. IFR-probe or psed again ???
It seems as if the conclusion about a third prototype was made a bit too early ! 😮 Following these images it is in fact still the second aircraft no. 2002, which was – at least it seems so :confused: – “simply” re-equipped with the radar !
Deino
Actually I don’t think that they are powered by the WP-14 Kunlun since – at least by all I know – that type of engine was finally (after a long and again protracted development phase) burried and is long dead now. Even the latest PLAAF versions J-7G (as well as the J-8F and JZ-8F) are “only” powered by the WP-13F(B) turbojet.
Deino
Thanks!!!
One question: Could employ PL-12/SD-10?
1Saludo
NO … only IR-guided AAMs like PL-9.
This video shows simply NOTHING …. even if not really much conclusive it ius the original one and IMO much better.
http://www.56.com/u31/v_NzYwNDkxODA.html#st=86&fromoutpvid=NzYwNDkxODA&
Deino
Dear Deino,
I think the typo is not a big problem. The Pinyin form of Chinese only records pronunciations and doesn’t carry any norms or meaning. Only native Chinese speakers is sensitive enogh to notice it should be q instead of g, but… we get what it really means.
i went through all the pages in the flash. In all it’s an amazing piece of work you have done. You’ve pulled together so much information of PLAAF & PLANAF. It’s more detailed and insightful than any books even published in China and Hongkong. I guess even the Taiwanese dont have a publication to its parallel out on the market.
I really hope it will have a Chinese version in the future, but i dont see it happening in mainland China, because 2/3 of the content is classified information(if put them together, pieces around the internet is ok, but not aggregated). Maybe in HongKong it’s Ok. Will the original book show up in Hongkong market anyway?
again, great great job, thank you.
thinkplum
Thanks a lot for Your very kind words ! Again I hope it is worth these expectations …
Besides that I can’t think of a chinese version of that book since first of all it would require a native speaker and second for me – most of all however my family – to finalise this work was a much too heavy burden I wn’t take for a second time.
Anyway we are currently searching a book-shop or distributor in China – if possible !! – …. or do You think this book will be forbidden ??! :diablo:
Best regards, Deino
is it the same with the published book,
found a typo on page 181
The title’s explanatory information, within the brackets “Guangzhou jungu”,
which should be “Guangzhou junqu”.
Oh NO 😮 … I need to apologize already for that ! … hope not much more mistakes are included. 🙁
Awesome 🙂
Is it any remote possibility that you could start on a “ModernRussianWarplanes” book in the future?
There are so much open material out there, you could even team up with other Reporters like Stefan Büttner whom have good insight in such material.
Oh well.. I’m looking forward to your book. 🙂
Surely not by me … since You can see even the Chinese book isn’t free of mistakes and since “Russia” is surely not MY topic – albeit I would completely agree with You – I surely won’t be the right man to do such a book.
MY distant dream is a book in similar fashion made by Mr. Piotr Butowski …. HARPIA can You hear our prays !?? And even more such a book on the Indian Air Force.
Anyway I hope my and Tom Cooper’s work will at least be a start …
Deino 😉
For those who might be interested in that topic … It’s finally done and hopefully worth all efforts …. “Modern Chinese Air Power” is ‘going to the press’ since yesterday:
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Modern Chinese Warplanes, Combat Aircraft and Units of the Chinese Air Force and Naval Aviation
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Since yesterday an animated preview of the book is available …
http://www.harpia-publishing.com/index-ModernChineseWarplanes.html
I hope You like it ….
Cheers, Deino
Here’s the video … Take a look from 1:11 on …
http://www.56.com/u31/v_NzYwNDkxODA.html#st=86&fromoutpvid=NzYwNDkxODA&
Deino
I would agree … and doesn’t look the radome more faceted ?