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This media is actually the most official media of PLA.China's J-20 fighter jet may get homemade engine
Source : Global Times Editor : Zhang Tao Time : 2017-09-08
Most experts and netizens said they believe photos posted online of China's J-20 fighter jets show homemade Taihang engines have replaced their Russian-made counterparts.
A report released by thepaper.cn on Wednesday said the new engine is the Taihang based on its appearance on the online photos.
They were referring to the new WS-10 variant ... not the reliable WS-10A. The latter is the one used in hundreds of aircraft ... not the WS-10XThe WS-10 engine has already powered several hundred PLAAF aircrafts for many years, and so far it got zero record of incident.
If you mean crash incident, it's really zero record.The WS-10 engine has already powered several hundred PLAAF aircrafts for many years, and so far it got zero record of incident.
They were referring to the new WS-10 variant ... not the reliable WS-10A. The latter is the one used in hundreds of aircraft ... not the WS-10X
If you mean crash incident, it's really zero record.
In protype stage of Taihang, there was serious incidents of Taihang, however no crash occured because of engine failure.
After Taihang enter in service in 2010, there's still some incidents but no serious ones.
The only crash of fighter equipped with Taihang is the prototype of J-11BS No. 532. However, investigation shows that the crash is not related to the Taihang engine.
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Only crash of Taihang fighter, but not due to engine.
Link (in Chinese):https://lt.cjdby.net/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1736057&fromuid=170559
Author: Yankee
This is great news. If it's Russian unreliability that's causing this reengining, then there's no reason to believe there are any setbacks in the WS-15 program.According to the report, the insufficient supply of the Russian engines could have led to the change, since orders for the homemade engine also come from overseas, while the price of the Russian engine has been increased from $3 million to $ 5 million each.
It's from back in December but still looks great!Not sure if this has been posted before "78271"
"EDIT, old picture, posted a few months back, please ignore