PLA Air Force General News Thread:

If the US weren't such a bunch of immature censored they could just admire some nice weapons technology like the rest of us.

Well actually they admire them more than anyone. Everyday they see chinese hardware going into those "US protected" islands and build more infrastructures there .

Chinese light combat aircraft L-15B

On November 2, 2019, at the flight conference of the Chinese aircraft industry Hongdu Aircraft Industry Group (HAIG), which is being held in Nanchang, a presentation and demonstration flights of the light combat (training) aircraft L-15B, which is a modified combat version of the HAIG training and combat training aircraft, were held aircraft L-15 (JL-10).

As previously reported by bmpd colleagues, the L-15B two-seat aircraft is intended for use as a light attack fighter and a transitional combat training aircraft. Unlike the “base” L-15, the new L-15B aircraft is equipped with AI-222-25F engines developed by Zaporizhzhya Ivchenko-Progress Design Bureau and mastered by Motor Sich JSC with afterburner - afterburner version of AI-222-25 engine . Also, the L-15B aircraft should be equipped with an onboard radar (supposedly with a passive phased array), a self-defense complex, an arms control complex, including a controlled one, and have 11 external suspension nodes.










https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3825515.html

Also, the L-15B aircraft should be equipped with an onboard radar

Looking how small the nose is, the only radar that could fit is a variant from air to air missile inboard radars unless they remove the front seat and makes it a single seat variant with a decent radar in front.

The most surprising is that russians don't use the engines on their own yak-130.

My bad I thought it was a russian company.

Afterburner and radar would make the yak 130 a fighter jet and not a trainer aircraft. It's about making a version not changing the basic trainer.

Su-35 fighters in the 6th PLA Air Force Brigade (former 6th Aviation Regiment of the 2nd Aviation Division) at the Suizi airfield near Zhanjiang (Guangdong Province).



https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3833647.html

Intersting image.

Guam would be very likely destroyed in the first minutes of a conventional war.

Too bad they didn't include anti ship missile's range fired by their numeros corvettes/speed boat/frigates if they operated near the shores (100-200km). F-35 range is (overestimated ?)not enough to hit deap inside China without puting the carrier in total danger.

We can also see that S-400 cover Taiwan totally and they could use their f-16/mirage only at low altitude thus burning their fuel quickly and making very hard any interceptioniif chinese bombers. There frigates also carry fort M with 150km range and wouldcover Taiwan even better than the s-40 on the coast.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1173418.shtml

China is developing a new 5th generation fighter. It is their third project after j-20 and j-31. It is called JJ. Developed by Shenyang which made the j-31, it may be a replacement for the j-31 which seems to be a failure and proposed only for export (failed too because no one bought it). Shenyang developed also the j15 which is also a failure. Some think it will be a carrier based fighter. It was started in 2018 and may see a prototype very soon if they really make it for their carrier.

Can anyone ID what is the thing on the first pylons near the rocket pods ?

Looks like the fixed acquisition round version of the TV-guided KAB-500. For training purposes.

I thought it was some sort of targeting pod then whybwoukd it carry two.

I agree that's weired that the training round is different from the real round. Not the same effect on the plane and the ground crew is not trained with the real weapon whuch may lead to mistakes when using the real.

So the chinese invested lot in su-35 which contradicts the main idea saying they bought it for thrir engines. They have plenty of weapons with ot and even jammer as we can see on the picture. Probably their best fighter right now.

That's very unlikely Russia gave them source codes to implement their own stuff on the Su-35. More like a training bomb like suggested.

Edit: I found. It is a kab 500KRu training bomb.

http://roe.ru/eng/catalog/aerospace-systems/air-bombs/kab-500kr-u/

GarryB wrote:

Edit: I found. It is a kab 500KRu training bomb.

Did you find that by looking at my post above?

(post number 194?)

As you can see in the image however the training system does not look the same as what is attached to the aircraft in the image... the training component is the seeker of the bomb with a fairing on it instead of the rest of the bomb.

The item in question is a thickened weapon pylon with an optical system at its front... I mean the most obvious difference is that the training seeker is round and the item on the aircraft is squared...

I just googled kab 500 on google. But I already knew about your link.

It's should be a newer version.