Are the dimensions that different from the Al-31? Sukhoi has had no problem re-fitting “vanilla” Su-27 with more powerful Al-31FM1s for example, although that only applies to a certain point (Su-35 has slightly larger 117S).
Actually I don’t know … but I also don’t know why the early F-15/-16 can’t be reengined with PW and/or GE engines and later can do ! As such there would be some changes necessary which make that possible for the later ones – similar to the J-11B, J-15 and J-10B (maybe) – but not to the early J-10 and J-11.
chinese ws-10 is better than al-31 :rolleyes:.come on man,everyone knows the unreability of chinese engines,their short life,and ofter mainteinens.
Only since that was so for decades doesn’t mean that it is still so. A few years ago no-one expected to develop China a fifth generation fighter … and now the J-20 is flying ! So that’s surely not an argument unless one still hopes that this situation will remain so.
the problem is not their unability to built them in large number but are the reasons that i just explained.judging of your words china can built faster a fighter than its engines:rolleyes:
In essence, YES !! They can actually build their fighters at a higher rate than the required engines (at least at the moment). And again not related that the WS-10A is a bad desig, but since the required manufacturing tollerances are much stiffer than for these old, unreliable and cheap WP-6, WP-7, … turbojets … as s result the number of finished engines up to that quality are not as high as required.
Deino
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