I 100% agree and think the 10B should be skipped for now. It can come later but it’s not a substantial enough upgrade over the 10A to compete with the Rafale EF2K and SU-30sm
Or later down the line add it as an premium like the FA18 or israeli F16 (the basic J-10B that is)
If I had to guess, training bombs, very similar in appearance to the one the UK uses.
Issue is it seem to carry something which is now released, because you can see there is a space and a mechanism under the ‘pod’ thing which likely was not meant to be like that.
CBLS for bomb training in the RAF;
Assuming its the same thing on the J-10, it looks incredibly similar.
What’s the purpose of these then?
Simulates a full sized bomb ballistics, so you can practice bombing. :)
Here’s the J-10CE’s hud and cockpit if you’re still looking for images for the CE
And the CE’s helmet
No J-10B/C on dev’s. Sad.
Do you mean refuelling probe?
no the fixed radar
fixed radar means worse gimbal limits than the j-10a, no insane gimbal limits like some other esa radars like the raven, captor e and the no35
Probably there are weight saving considerations/airframe center of gravity balancing factors, so a fixed antenna is adopted.
After all there are benefits and compromises to each system.
The only benefit I can see is the ability to fit a larger antenna (And perhaps slightly higher reliability by eliminating the mechanical system, but those should be quite reliable anyways).
As far as WT goes, I would rather take the smaller antenna on a swivel …
Yes for more transmit and receive modules, J-10B and J-10C’s radars have between the range of ~1200 to 1300.
Should still have easily 120 if not 140 degree scan which is more than enough for ARB.
Well
Things like Irbis-E get 240 deg (±120)
And CAPTOR-E should be like 200 deg (±100)
Which allows you to stay in the notch and still look for targets and launch missiles at them …
Now this thing looks like it has around 30 deg tilt in elevation
So it they assume 60 deg electronic steering it will get +90 in elevation and if they assume 70 deg steering it will get 100 deg in elevation
Which if they implement correct could allow you to roll 90 deg and use your elevation to find targets off boresight (Though it will be difficult to maintain the roll with RB controls, without some sort of manual roll control mode like helicopters get).
Yeah, only for WT.
IIRCm only Captor, Raven and Irbis (anyway semi-PESA) have mechanical scan. But every other country like US, China, France, Korea (but IIRC US-made radar) use fixed aesa radar.
