i think 120D and pl12a have kinda made it clear we need more seeker and datalink updates for these
I did some research and made some calculations about the WS-10 series, and i wanted to know about the WS-10B, the thing is that if the engine T/W Wet is 8.8 the WS-10B should be weighting something like 1534 kg if we consider the actual Thrust of the engine, if we consider the 135 kn (13.765 kgf of thrust) the engine should weight 1568 kg… the thing is that gaijin take the 1795 kg of weight from the first model of the WS-10, the basic one, not even the WS-10A, the original WS-10 was more like a copy paste from the AL-31 but heavier probably because they were just starting to manufacture their own engines at that time… i wanted to talk about the internal fuel of the J-10C because it should carry 300 kg more of internal fuel than the J-10A… because when they replaced the old air inlet with the new one in the J-10B (DSI Intake), they reduced 300 kg and those 300 kg became internal fuel depending on what comes to research…
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I can state quite clearly that the maximum afterburner thrust of the WS-10B (1) is approximately 144 kN, with military thrust rated at 92 kN. As for weight, it is generally believed that the WS-10B has a thrust-to-weight ratio of 8 to 8.2 under the GJB standard. When converted to the Russian standard currently used by Gaijin, this does not result in any significant weight increase over the AL-31F. (Under the GJB standard, the AL-31F has a thrust-to-weight ratio of approximately 6.95.)
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after all, they are almost same sized engine, wont be so much weight difference