Saturday, July 29, 2017

Video of the day: J-16 "Strike Flanker" debuts for the first time at the Zhurihe miliatary parade



Note the new PL-15 BVRAAM on each wing



Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Photos of the day: 6 new J-16 spotted at Shanyang.




Wednesday, May 02, 2012

No typo, J-16 is the Chinese Strike Flanker, Su30 MK2

http://rusnavy.com/news/othernavies/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=13692


China demonstrated fighter J16 to the press at aircraft factory Shenyang Aircraft Co; it is a copy of Russian Su-30MK2, reports Hong Kong military magazine Kanwa referring to a Chinese authoritative military source.

This airplane is a copy of Russian fighter Su-30MK2, the batch of them was sold to China early in 2000's, reports Interfax citing the source.

According to the magazine, Chinese Navy is quite satisfied with performance characteristics of Su-30MK2 fighter. The military asked the Shenyang aircraft factory to copy that fighter with antiship capabilities adapted for Chinese-made missiles. Basically, the fuselage remained the same as J11BS airplane has, said the source.

The magazine reports that the first batch of 24 fighters J16 had been already constructed.

Since early 2010, Chinese Navy began to receive the first batch of domestically-designed multirole all-weather fighters J10A which significantly increased technological level of Chinese Navy, reports Kanwa.

The Chinese military source told to the magazine that "national air force has not received 'cloned' Su-30MK2 yet. Normally, Chinese Navy gets new fighters first. For example, two-seat fighter bomber JH7 joined Air Force only after commissioning into the Navy".




Saturday, February 22, 2014

Photos of the day: J-16 1612



1 comment:

Maximuvinal said...

This can not be a copy, as on the Su-30MK2 nozzle with a controlled thrust vector, and on the J-16 it does not.