sancho
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The J-10 suffers from simply having less wing "span". there isnt any space to fit all of that into the jet.
It's not necessarily the wing size, but the weight limit of the external wingstation, that doesn't seems to be able to carry BVR missiles and the fact that no wingtip station was added, like on the F16, Gripen or Rafale. For fuselage stations with bigger loads the fuselage simply offers too less space with the gearbay in between.