The information in different articles within that issue kinda overlap with each other, another article conformed it to be AL-31FN-M1.
The J-16 section mentioned the maximum speed at sea level to be 1800 km/h and top speed M2.5 at altitude, maximum payload 12 meric ton, but aside from these I am not seeing much other numbers given.
I had to pay for a few bucks to get the scanned version, and the PDF file size is quite large (214 mb) so I am a bit reluctant to upload the whole thing here OxO
I also found some articles about improvements on J-11B, but again I will have to pay to get the scanned full text cuz those are old magazine issues. I’d compile a list with PDFs it ppl are willing to send a bit of GEs for the trouble since I still haven’t grind the CN tree but surely would like to get the J-10B and hopefully J-8PP someday.
I don’t think 兵工科技 is available in academic archives such as cqvip.com. The official way would be ordering directly from the publisher, but for past issues I had to buy the scanned version from Taobao.
The paper talked about an AESA and I agree it could be the one used on J-10C (which is well know to be AESA), but it doesn’t mention that the J-10B switched from PESA to AESA?
Main differences between 10B and 10C are PESA+AL-31 vs AESA+WS-10 from all the Chinese sources I’ve seen, and the problem with using Chinese academic papers as sources is that 99% of the times they are very vague for OPSEC and won’t specify which vehicle they discuss. The paper does not even have a singular mention about “J-10”.
A few comments down when another user asked the OP to translate the paper he said “My grasp of the Chinese language is as good as yours”, apparently he does not even understand Chinese. Judging from the watermark he got them from Super Basecamp (超级大本营, a long gone CN military watch forum) and we can’t trace where the claim came from.
Because China likes to hide its own military scientific achievements and then release them when they are needed. Just like our sixth-generation aircraft. It even has two scenarios.
J-10A is slightly inferior ingame, unless it is very low speed, then J-10A has better stall control.
J-10B is lighter + more thrust, so it should be more competitive.
J-10A actually has a lower stall speed than the Eurofighter, suggesting more lift at high AOA but the Eurofighter just has so much thrust that it outturns J-10A anyway.
Regarding this, I am seeing if I can see the actual paper for myself, cause it might mention something there. I agree with scientific papers it is vague, but roughly just about everything else is classified. If we can see from somewhere, (anywhere) in the paper that something matches on to known stuff, then we might just be able to use it.
PLAAF is really bad at PR, ngl
As CW Lemoine said none of the displays match up with what actually happens, might be because for OPSEC or for casual audience viewing
