PAF J-35AE - News, Updates and Discussions

[StormBreaker]

Give me the break where is weapon integration and weapon systems testing?

What proofs have you got to back up your stance?

 

[Michael]

I don't know how he has got confirmation from Mr. Gao

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Fake news.
Mr. Gao is just a political influencer. He has a certain academic background, but no political or military background.

And here is the reason why China is producing J-35s quickly like lolly-pops. It is almost 100% that China is using "Advance Pulse Assembly Lines" to produce J-20 and J-35s. So a single assembly line produces a fighter in 8-days rather than 30 days !! China can produce hundreds of these fighter jets in one Year !

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Fake news.
I have explained it before, please refer to it.
Note: I mean this video is fake news. So far, the official agencies have never announced the production line or production situation of J-20. As for the real production situation of J-20, it is top secret.

Post in thread 'Chengdu J-20 5th Generation Aircraft News & Discussions'

Jun 29, 2025

Here it is, from the official CCTV western estimate of J20 inventory, which is way too low
AVIC just introduced a "pulse assembly line" for J 20 reducing the manufacturing cycle of a single fighter from 30 days to 8 days.

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Maybe @Michael and @iblini knows better, but this does not look like a CCTV-report! More like something fan-made.

Fake news fabricated by self-media.

In the video, there are a lot of shots of the F-35 production line, as well as the J-10 production line and other shots released by CCTV. It looks a bit like "real".

So...

• Michael

 

[Yasser76]

Fake news.
Mr. Gao is just a political influencer. He has a certain academic background, but no political or military background.

Fake news.
I have explained it before, please refer to it.

Post in thread 'Chengdu J-20 5th Generation Aircraft News & Discussions'

Jun 29, 2025

Here it is, from the official CCTV western estimate of J20 inventory, which is way too low
AVIC just introduced a "pulse assembly line" for J 20 reducing the manufacturing cycle of a single fighter from 30 days to 8 days.

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Maybe @Michael and @iblini knows better, but this does not look like a CCTV-report! More like something fan-made.

Fake news fabricated by self-media.

In the video, there are a lot of shots of the F-35 production line, as well as the J-10 production line and other shots released by CCTV. It looks a bit like "real".

So...

• Michael

Sorry, I know you are Chinese, or claim to be, but Gao has a very extensive political background Michael

 

[Tariq Habib Afridi]

J-20 production rate is being increased to a surprising 8 day/aircraft.

SAC hasn’t got much production orders much in their plate so J-35 is gonna see a good mass production rate.

i think there is still a couple of years until J-35 gets mature than they will start mass production. there will be alot of testing debuggings for atleast a couple of years

 

[Michael]

Sorry, I know you are Chinese, or claim to be, but Gao has a very extensive political background Michael

Sorry, I didn't explain this clearly. There are some completely different understandings here.

Victor Gao. He has become very well-known recently.

According to his public resume, he graduated from Yale University with a doctorate in law, and has been engaged in think tank research, corporate leader, TV program commentator, etc. He is a scholar-researcher, but he has never done any actual political work in China. Even his information does not indicate whether he is a member of the CCP. We also never saw him meeting with top Chinese politicians (members of the Chinese Politburo Standing Committee).
At the same time, many of the views he published in English media are not recognized by ordinary Chinese people. China's official media or political institutions have never acknowledged his views. He is also a very controversial figure on Chinese social media.

In Chinese society, his resume is not considered to have a political background.
Or, let me put it another way. He never made any actual political decisions! He had some ability to make recommendations, but he never had any level of political decision-making ability.

In China, even the smallest village committee director has a certain level of political decision-making ability, but Victor Gao has never had such experience.

 

[ARMalik]

Allah kay bandhay, the J-35 has just entered Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP)—how has China established 'Advanced Pulse Assembly Lines' for it so quickly or can made in near future? They developed Pulse Assembly Lines for the J-20 some time ago, which likely began LRIP around 2015. Hosla rakhain—the J-35 still has at least 2-3 years of mass production.

Does China need to provide you with timelines and seek your permission to start J-35 production?? Does China need to give out every possible information to people like you?? Are you Xi's nephew? What if the Chinese started production last year?? Why would Chinese Govt need to tell you this or these Chinese fanboys here??

All these Chinese fanboys here are ONLY speculating. There claim to have inside info but There have zero concrete information.

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

Sorry, I know you are Chinese, or claim to be, but Gao has a very extensive political background Michael

According to a former PAF AM in an interview yesterday ( I have posted it in the Pak-Bharat war thread), the PAF is indeed acquiring J-35, HQ-19 and the Chinese AWACS (he avoided to mention the # in KLJ-###). IMO it's a message to the credulous and nervous folks. And, he has also mentioned the PAF is in a position to flawlessly integrate the Chinese systems as the backbone and base are already operational. It implies the level of interoperability of the PAF and PLAAF is at another level as mentioned by the serious Bharati analysts too.....

Now let me share an imaginary scenario. The PLAAF J-20s stealthily move into the Fog of the War under the PAF cover and start taking out the Bharati systems in a systematic manner - doing an "Israil" on Bharat.....

 

[FarhanSiddiqui]

Fanboys dreaming of J-35A in Pakistan Airforce this year. China must induct atleast 100 F-35 in PLA with iterations/improvements and new Blocks. Only after that Pakistan decides to induct them.

 

[Yasser76]

Sorry, I didn't explain this clearly. There are some completely different understandings here.

Victor Gao. He has become very well-known recently.

According to his public resume, he graduated from Yale University with a doctorate in law, and has been engaged in think tank research, corporate leader, TV program commentator, etc. He is a scholar-researcher, but he has never done any actual political work in China. Even his information does not indicate whether he is a member of the CCP. We also never saw him meeting with top Chinese politicians (members of the Chinese Politburo Standing Committee).
At the same time, many of the views he published in English media are not recognized by ordinary Chinese people. China's official media or political institutions have never acknowledged his views. He is also a very controversial figure on Chinese social media.

In Chinese society, his resume is not considered to have a political background.
Or, let me put it another way. He never made any actual political decisions! He had some ability to make recommendations, but he never had any level of political decision-making ability.

In China, even the smallest village committee director has a certain level of political decision-making ability, but Victor Gao has never had such experience.

From 1983 to 1988, Gao was a translator for Deng Xiaoping.He was also a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1983 to 1989 at the United Nations Secretariat in New York. After leaving the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1988, Gao was recommended by Henry Kissinger to study at Yale University, where he earned a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 1993. Then he was a policy adviser for the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission from 1999 to 2000.

 

[Yasser76]

Fanboys dreaming of J-35A in Pakistan Airforce this year. China must induct atleast 1000 F-35 in PLA with iterations/improvements and new clocks. Only after that Pakistan decides to induct them.

You need to tell this to PAF CAS, he missed your email

 

[FarhanSiddiqui]

You need to tell this to PAF CAS, he missed your email

I am sure PAF decisions are based on the vast factual information that we are not privy to as mere spectators.

 

[Michael]

From 1983 to 1988, Gao was a translator for Deng Xiaoping.He was also a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1983 to 1989 at the United Nations Secretariat in New York. After leaving the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1988, Gao was recommended by Henry Kissinger to study at Yale University, where he earned a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 1993. Then he was a policy adviser for the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission from 1999 to 2000.

Our information is two different versions. If you are interested, you can search on the Chinese Internet. The results may be very different from those on the English Internet.
Currently, Victor Gao is very popular and many negative news will disappear...
But what we can confirm is:
1. He is a person who has suddenly become very popular in recent years.
2. He has very close connections with many Western institutions.

But discussing him? Not relevant to this thread.

 

[Yasser76]

Our information is two different versions. If you are interested, you can search on the Chinese Internet. The results may be very different from those on the English Internet.
Currently, Victor Gao is very popular and many negative news will disappear...
But what we can confirm is:
1. He is a person who has suddenly become very popular in recent years.
2. He has very close connections with many Western institutions.

But discussing him? Not relevant to this thread.

No, you are the one who claimed, and I quote, "No political or military background". I just find it strange you would say that when all the evidence is contrary to that.

 

[StormBreaker]

Fanboys dreaming of J-35A in Pakistan Airforce this year. China must induct atleast 100 F-35 in PLA with iterations/improvements and new Blocks. Only after that Pakistan decides to induct them.

PAF has been interested in this project even before PLAAF got into it. So by order of interest, PAF could be the priority in the early months of production too.

I’m not saying that they could land this year but certainly before 2027. Some units atleast. They could start mass production this year. LRIP windows have been historically quite short in AVIC led subsidiaries.

 

[FarhanSiddiqui]

PAF has been interested in this project even before PLAAF got into it. So by order of interest, PAF could be the priority in the early months of production too.

I’m not saying that they could land this year but certainly before 2027. Some units atleast. They could start mass production this year. LRIP windows have been historically quite short in AVIC led subsidiaries.

This could be similar at J-17 project but with China also inducting the fighter. Pakistan providing inputs in the project but no money.