To be honest, Gaijin should really equip Chinese tech tree aircraft with new missiles. After the J-10C leak, Gaijin claimed the missiles were “too overpowered.” They said the same thing last time about the CM502KG, a Fire-and-Forget helicopter missile that has terrible damage against light armored targets. I’m not sure what Gaijin is referring to—the PL-15? With a range of 145-200 km, it would indeed be beyond the current game’s scope. However, China has the PL-12AE, which is comparable to the in-game R-77-1 and AIM-120C5/C7. Its range of around 120 km is perfectly suitable for new Chinese aircraft and wouldn’t be overpowered .
This Pakistani brochure took all of its data from the J-10C Wikipedia article. The 9750 kg empty weight figure on the Wikipedia article comes from this 2007 article that predates the J-10C. The J-10C is NOT 9750 kg, this figure was originally thrown around for the J-10A and is extremely inaccurate. We do not know where the Pakistani brochure comes from either but we do know that the airshow hosts or whoever made it took all of their info from the Wikipedia article and even made several typos such as the MTOW being incorrectly listed as 42,499 lb when their source (Wikipedia) states 42,388 lb.
Yeah I’ve realized that now, talked about it on the j10 thread in the aircraft section of this site. J10c will be a beast now (assuming it’s around 8600 kg)
Yeah, I’d expect it to be around 8.6 - 8.8 tons. Regardless of whether it gets the AL-31FN Series 3 or WS-10B both engines produce significantly more thrust than the current one.
Additionally, the erroneous empty weight has fortunately been removed from Wikipedia recently for citing an invalid source. However, the damage is already done and a lot of publications still use this weight and take it for granted.
Pretty sure the PL-15 stuff is real if you think about it. PL-10 and PL-17 placeholder file names have been in the game files for a while, but they just randomly add an inferior missile file out of nowhere?
Yeah my expectations are somewhat low. Chat says its effective range against a maneuvering fighter is pretty low. 40-70km. Can still launch almost immediately after spawning lol.
If you mean PL-15, its maximum tail-aspect launch range under standard conditions (at 10,000 meters altitude and Mach 1.2) exceeds the dimensions of any existing in-game map.
Currently, the maximum thermal imaging resolution for targeting pods in the game is 1200×800.
The following is the basic data screenshot from the Yings-ⅢA (PS: There was originally a QR code linking to a website, but the site seems to be down now, possibly due to an expired domain or unpaid fees).
Here is additional information: The YINGS-ⅢA has both high and low configuration versions. The model displayed at the 2024 Zhuhai Airshow that I photographed was the high-end configuration (left side of the image shows low configuration, right side shows high configuration).
The image indicates that the high-configuration YINGS-ⅢA has both infrared and TV detection ranges ≥70km/55km respectively, maximum laser ranging distance of 70km (using 1.067μm wavelength), and laser illumination/lock-on tracking distance ≥30km.
As a new-generation pod, it is compatible with almost all Chinese combat aircraft, including the J-10C/E, JF-17, FTC-2000G, L-15, Chinese Flanker, and even the Su-30. lol
