SAC FC-31 Stealth Fighter: News & Discussions

[nang2]

hi could someone provide me a chinese source which says that j31 will enter production by 2019 or 2020 plz

why would you believe that?

 

[grey boy 2]

J-20 and now FC-31

 

[samsara]

CCTV 4 中文国际 "Today Focus" 今日关注 2016-12-24:

• Liaoning carrier formation conducts cross-area training guided by naval commander.
• Improved J-31, China's second type of stealth fighter, successfully completes maiden flight
• Foreign media: Small number of J-16s start military service, may carry YJ-12 missile

Note: this youtube version, unlike the whole segment aired in the broadcast (about 30 min or roughly so), missed the part concerning the US military plan to deploy the F-22 to the northern Australia in 2017 to counter China in the South China Sea.

 

[j20blackdragon]

huitong confirms domestic WS-13E engines.
http://chinese-military-aviation.blogspot.com/2012/07/fighters_18.html#FC-31

The latest images suggested that the high-speed taxi test of the 02 prototype started on December 18, 2016. Its first flight took place on December 23, 2016, powered by two smokeless WS-13E engines.

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/chinas-second-fc-31-takes-flight-432720/

A brief, grainy video purported to be of the flight also indicates that the engines are not smoking. The J-31 that performed during Airshow China in Zhuhai in 2014 was notable for the exhaust produced by its pair of Klimov R-93 engines. This is the same powerplant used in the single-engined Chengdu/Pakistan Aeronautical Complex JF-17, which is also notable for engine exhaust.

 

[Beast]

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/chinas-second-fc-31-takes-flight-432720/

A brief, grainy video purported to be of the flight also indicates that the engines are not smoking. The J-31 that performed during Airshow China in Zhuhai in 2014 was notable for the exhaust produced by its pair of Klimov R-93 engines. This is the same powerplant used in the single-engined Chengdu/Pakistan Aeronautical Complex JF-17, which is also notable for engine exhaust.

JF-17 didn't smoke that bad with same Ruskie engine.

 

[UniverseWatcher]

JF-17 didn't smoke that bad with same Ruskie engine.

So if the RD-93 doesn't smoke that much then there could be a possibility that FC-31 1.0 wasn't carrying RD-93 and maybe an early version of WS-XX

 

[j20blackdragon]

JF-17 smoke

Old-school MiG-29 smoke

 

[Deino]

Can we probably better concentrate to the V2 again !??? I think the last images alone seem to prove that it does not use a Russian engine ... or at least not any of the original ones.

Deino

 

[Deino]

An old image from the taxi test on 18. December ... but these two images are new (at least to me) !

 

[WarFariX]

An old image from the taxi test on 18. December ... but these two images are new (at least to me) !

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yes the rear view is new

 

[WarFariX]

An old image from the taxi test on 18. December ... but these two images are new (at least to me) !

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Looks like this is also a carrier borne prototype , Front Pair of wheels

 

[UKBengali]

Russian RD-33K is smokeless.

 

[帅的一匹]

Russian RD-33K is smokeless.

The gap between the rear end and the engine disappear, means the engine on V2 has large diameter.

Looks like this is also a carrier borne prototype , Front Pair of wheels

It still has a chance to be inducted for PLAN.

 

[帅的一匹]

Russian RD-33K is smokeless.

If these engine are still some Russian stuff, SAC can just explode themself.

 

[cirr]

An old image from the taxi test on 18. December ... but these two images are new (at least to me) !

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