CCTV reveals: Why is the J-10CE able to achieve such remarkable results?
Political Insights
2025-05-17 14:26:01 from Beijing
Editor: Dong Xin
On May 17, CCTV's "Military Situation Time" program took stock of recent hot equipment.
The film mentioned that recently, my country's export-oriented fighter J-10CE achieved actual combat results for the first time, shooting down multiple fighter planes in an air battle without any losses. This news instantly attracted great attention from military enthusiasts around the world.
The J-10CE is an all-weather, single-engine, single-seat, multi-purpose fighter independently developed by China's aviation industry. It has the capabilities of system coordinated operations, beyond-visual-range multi-target attacks in strong electromagnetic confrontation environments, and multi-mode precision ground strikes. It has excellent medium and low altitude maneuverable combat, supersonic flight, short takeoff and landing, large combat radius, long range and aerial refueling capabilities. It is equipped with advanced integrated avionics systems and weapon systems, and has strong external weapon capabilities.
As a fighter jet produced in my country for export, what are the advantages of the J-10CE compared with similar fighter jets internationally?
Military expert Zhang Xuefeng introduced that the basic design of the J-10 series fighter jets is very good, with a canard aerodynamic layout and very good maneuverability. The J-10CE has been further improved and has three major advantages.
First of all, the J-10CE has taken many measures to reduce its radar reflection area. The cockpit cover has been coated, a pump-type air inlet is used, and the installed radar antenna is tilted. Through comprehensive improvements, the radar reflection area can be reduced by an order of magnitude.
The second is that the J-10CE's avionics system is very advanced and uses an active phased array radar. The detection range of my country's active phased array radar is constantly improving, and its anti-interference capability is very strong. It can attack targets stably and achieve preemptive detection.
In addition, the missiles carried by the J-10CE are also very advanced, and can detect, track and shoot the enemy first.
The J-10CE is a single-engine fighter with only one engine. Why can it achieve overwhelming results against the twin-engine Rafale?
Zhang Xuefeng pointed out that the Rafale's combat design is very clever, its aerodynamic layout is very advanced, and its maneuverability is very high, but the space in the nose is relatively small, so the radar it is equipped with is relatively small, and it has relatively few transceiver components, so the detection distance is relatively short. In addition, the missiles carried by the Rafale do not have a range advantage, so in this kind of confrontation,
even in a single-machine confrontation, the Rafale will suffer a disadvantage.