Which is Which?
No problem, do you see why I get anal over exact designations?
Yeah, in the case of both the YF120 and AL-41F the engines were unbelievably powerful but ate through so much fuel that it wasn’t seen as beneficial over conventional turbofan designs.
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owo???
bigger one is old AL-41F for Mig-1.44
As u said this is way beyond the three aircraft carriers’ capability, all of them in total should operate roughly 150 or so J-15s of all variants. I would suspect this is 206th J-15, accounting the prototypes this may be lower for number of operational J-15. That said could also be possible they have more squadrons than carriers are capable.
i just konw the new aircraft carriers under construction
Maybe. But the primary issue is that standard J-15 variants don’t follow this serial numbering convention, making it difficult to verify the total count. What we can confirm, however, is that the J-15DT is included within these 206 aircraft.
All carrier-based J-15s will eventually be replaced by the J-15T, while also meeting the needs for pilot training and permanent deployment to island airfields — with most of the aircraft previously stationed on island outposts having already been transferred to the Air Force.
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That said Fujian won’t have a full crew of J15s.
Both the Fujian and Liaoning carrier air wings will be composed of J-15 and J-35. Currently, Shandong likely does not yet possess the capability to operate the J-35, whereas Liaoning gained this capability during its last major refit.
I just hope to god that by the time we get the J-16 it will rightfully be by far the best flanker in the game, no BS where somehow the Su-35S magically has a better radar because BVVD said so
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does the J-16 have 240° of total gimbal?
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Source - my left nut
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Theres very little if any details about the J-16 radar, so good chance that at best, it will be as good as the Su-35’s, and most likely it will be worse.
Not cuz thats accurate to irl, but because the Irbis-E has a lot of public details, and gaijins simplistic modelling of AESA vs PESA will result in this.
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Better Radar, Engines, Missiles, ECM, Cockpit (for sim fans), better FM (Lighter)…
The J-16/D will be THE best flanker in game by a signifigant margin
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It’s newer, more efficient and roughly the same size as the Irbis, and as seen in a recent incident between some southern asian nations, the Chinese made AESAs are very much capable, and if the J-10CE radar is that good, I have reason to believe that the J-16 one will be better
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Do we even know how it looks like?
Irl sure not for wt tho
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Doesn’t really matter since not modeled
Su35 has better defensive suite but less cms
More thrust but no tvc
Bvr sure not for df
We have a rough Idea what it’ll look like
Faster scan rate, better acquisition, higher target retention are all more relevant than gimbal limits
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TVC has no benefit beyond the maneuver button in game, moot point
Dogfighting performance is irrelevant when the PL-10 exists
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Thats great and all, but quite literally worthless to implementation in-game, so my point still stands.
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