Yommie
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Typhoon first flew in 1994 but design was done in the 1980s.
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Typhoon first flew in 1994 but design was done in the 1980s.
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Your design was also frozen in mid to late 80s but first flight occurred in early 2000, so what's the problem for Typhoon, you have similar development cycle for your J10 as compare to Typhoon
Yommie
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J-10C is way newer than Typhoon in design. J-10C compared to Typhoon is sort of like P-51D Mustang compared to Fw-190A Wurger.
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Only intake is modified rest of the airframe remain same as J10A
Yommie
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J-10C is way more advanced than Typhoon in design. J-10C has DSI. Typhoon don't.
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DSI is not necessary Typhoon has higher cruise speed than J-10C
Yommie
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But older generation intake is expensive to maintain and heavy and cumbersome and prone to breakdown. DSI don't need maintenance.
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Lol so why your j11 series using these type of intakes (variable ramp intakes)? If they are expensive to maintain, cumbersome and prone to breakdown?
Yommie
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All the new planes switched to DSI. J-10 did. JF-17 did. F-35 did. Su-75 did.
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No only few have DSI most of them conventional fixed or variable ramp intake, even your J10A have conventional fixed intake, and where do you get it that Su-75 has DSI intake?
Yommie
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J-10A hasn't been in production since like 2012. J-10A production was replaced by J-10B.
I quote:
The Su-75 Checkmate has a diverterless supersonic inlet (DSI), a v-tail and internal weapons bays—all features intended to reduce radar signature.
source: https://airrecognition.com/index.ph...-su-75-checkmate-fighter.html#google_vignette
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There are lot fewer J10B and J10C as compare to J10A and air recognition. Com is not reliable defense site
Yommie
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J-10B and J-10C have the same fuselage. And BTW I forgot to mention J-20 which has DSI.
This is a good question!
It is correct though I would say both airframes are contemporary
A mock up similar to the final Eurofighter was shown in 1986. Some changes are noticeable and I believe the design phase ran until around 1988-89.
Though the first flight was in 1994 but the first prototype was unveiled in 1992 and the first flight was delayed by issues with the flight control system. I believe the first metal was cut in 1989.
A mock up of the first J-10 was complete in 1991. From the pictures I have you will note the inlet is F-16 like not the J-10A’s. This is because the original plane was to use a Chinese domestic copy of the R29-300 obtained from Egypt. When the Al-31f became available the aircraft was redesigned which I believe occurred in 1994, besides the intake the rear fusalage was made wider. of course the first flight was 1998. The J-10B was a second redesign that was also fairly extreme, besides the intake a number of systems were changed. Both of these redesign’s changed the aircraft aerodynamics and center of gravity somewhat.
So the J-10 is a hair younger but its probably more accurate to call them contemporary.
This exercise seems to be more a story of avionics and missiles, but undeniably it’s been a good few weeks for the J-10.
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