yup all al-41f1, al-41f1s and al-51 all use fixed bypass ratios
That is very interesting, it will be very informative to find out what trade secrets they have for improving performance over earlier designs without major improvements such as variable bypass.
More Fuel&air = more power
It’s bigger lol
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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.