Chengdu J-10 Multirole Fighter Air Craft News & Discussions

[Munir]

it has a retractable fuel probe, ive seen it in a video.

it has not... Just watch my video...

http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=8869512750983413810

 

[Keysersoze]

it has not... Just watch my video...

http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=8869512750983413810

Then what is it doing 1.51 mins into the video?

 

[Abs]

Then what is it doing 1.51 mins into the video?

at 1.51 it is refueling but its not retractable.
look at 2.00 minutes, its flying with the fuel probe out, its external.

it does have a fuel probe that can be externally fixed onto the aircraft should the mission require in flight refueling.

quote from sinodefence:

'If necessary, the aircraft could be fitted with an in-flight refuelling probe'. if it was retractable it would always carry it in the aircraft.

sinodefence

 

[Lilo]

at 1.51 it is refueling but its not retractable.
look at 2.00 minutes, its flying with the fuel probe out, its external.

it does have a fuel probe that can be externally fixed onto the aircraft should the mission require in flight refueling.

quote from sinodefence:

'If necessary, the aircraft could be fitted with an in-flight refuelling probe'. if it was retractable it would always carry it in the aircraft.

sinodefence

Ohh my bad, i thought that was a retractable one

 

[falcone]

Thank you all for all of your clarifications. Yes, the J-10 has a non-retractable refeuling probe.

 

[JK!]

On the 29th of December 2006 J10 was officially declassified.

Heres the link http://www.sinodefence.com/airforce/fighter/j10news.asp

Also check out the artist conception pics on wikipedia of Super 10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-10

Wikipedia mentions a couple of serious drawbacks of the indeginous chinese engines.
The most serious is it cannot match the Russian engine in the time to reach its performance. Also it lacks FADEC which is the digital control of the engine.

The source given for these on wikipedia is an interview with Test Pilots

 

[PakSniper]

Bring the origiinal source Wikipedia alone doesn't confirm anything it's not very reliable, and I checked the reference list and nothing on their leads to the article about the interview with the test pilot.

 

[Abs]

Wikipedia mentions a couple of serious drawbacks of the indeginous chinese engines.
The most serious is it cannot match the Russian engine in the time to reach its performance. Also it lacks FADEC which is the digital control of the engine.

wikipedia is talking about the WS10, but the engine that will equip the J10's in the future is WS10A 'Taihang'.

the WS10 did fail to meet the requirments and match the russian engine but the WS10A recitifes all these problems. and it's also complete, its been tested and formally certificated and given the name 'Taihang'.

WS10A

don't know how reliable the source is, was origonally in chinese and google translator isn't always that accurate.

 

[falcone]

Here is a link about the J-10's powerplant from sinodefence.com:

http://www.sinodefence.com/airforce/fighter/j10powerplant.asp .

 

[falcone]

Here is a picture of the WS-10A from sinodefence.com:

 

[ishaqnoor17]

j-10 is goooooooooooooood!

 

[kidwaibhai]

when will the j-10 be inducted into the pakistani airforce

 

[Owais]

when will the j-10 be inducted into the pakistani airforce

PAF didnot ordered F-10 yet.
we have to wait till IAF's 126MRCA deal is finalised.

 

[Contrarian]

PAF didnot ordered F-10 yet.
we have to wait till IAF's 126MRCA deal is finalised.

Why??
.....

 

[Munir]

Then Russia would not have to face the whinging about the engine of the J10 like it had with JF17.

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