Indian media: China's J-35 has been "breakthrough", "heart disease" has been resolved, and it is worthy of vigilance

After many days of fermentation, the Indian media finally felt backwards, and followed the US media to analyze the third F-35 prototype of China 350003. India's "Eurasian Times" believes that the huge amount of information displayed by the third J-35 prototype shows that the J-35 stealth fighter project has achieved "breakthrough progress", and it is likely to deploy 004 in the Chinese Navy in the future. The nuclear power carrier is worthy of vigilance.

The Indian media believes that the main reason for the "breakthrough progress" of the J-35 stealth fighter project is the same as the previous US "Theater" website, which are concentrated on Chinese domestic engines. The reason why the US and Indian media believe that through observing the condition of the engine, the progress status of the J-35 stealth fighter project is mainly the predecessor of the J-35 stealth fighter-the FC-31 stealth fighter Essence

FC-31 has been used for a long time to use the Russian RD-33 engine

The opening time of the FC-31 stealth fighter project was not too late. On January 11, 2011, the first F-20 prototype of the number 2001 was successful. Subsequently, on October 31, 2012, the FC-31 stealth fighter also flew smoothly. The difference between the first flight time and the J-20 project was less than half a year. But before 2016, the FC-31 stealth fighter has been using the Russian RD-33 engine. Even at the Zhuhai Air Show in 2016, it was unveiled with RD-33 and WS-13 mixing. It proves that until 2016, the relevant developers still lack confidence in the reliability of domestic WS-13 engines.

WS-13 and RD-33 mix

The Indian media believes that the WS-21 turbofan engine on the J-35 prototype is actually another name for the WS-13X engine. The WS-13X engine is an enhanced version of the WS-13E engine, and the WS-13E is the intensive variant version of the early WS-13 engine.

Now that the J-35 prototypes choose two engines, both of which have selected Chinese-made WS-21, which proves that its reliability has been recognized by the developer and the Chinese military, and the "heart disease" problem of the J-35 fighter has been resolved. What needs to be done next is to complete the remaining test subjects like the J-20 of that year. Therefore, the Indian media believes that the J-35 stealth fighter project has achieved "breakthrough progress". Of course, there are different views that the J-35 equipment is not WS-21, but WS-19.

In fact, it is hard to say that it is the WS-13 series engine to help the J-35 stealth fighter solve the problem of "heart disease", or the J-35 stealth fighter helps the WS-13 series engines out of trouble.

The imitation prototype of the WS-13 engine is Russia's RD-33 engine, but it is unfortunate that the early WS-13 engine cannot find a suitable platform for testing. As a China Push, the "Dragon Dragon" fighter jointly developed by China-Pakistan is the most suitable platform for the WS-13 series. But unfortunately, at the time, the Pakistani Air Force was more willing to use more mature RD-33 engines in order to stabilize it. It was not until the WS-13 series mature and stable, and the "Dragon" began to replace the domestic WS-13 series engine.

However, fortunately, the FC-31 stealth fighter project of the 601 has lost its own development after losing to the J-20 stealth fighter in 611 in the bidding to avoid falling behind in the field of stealth fighters. Subsequently, the two were shot together. Since 2016, the WS-13 series engines have been tested on the FC-31 body.

Although there are now opinions that the navy and air force attach great importance to medium-sized stealth fighters, they saved the FC-31 stealth fighter and WS-13 engine. However, I personally think that if the FC-31 does not become a mature medium stealth fighter potential, it does not have the ability to mass production, not only will the Air Force not consider, but even the naval carrier-based aircraft will not consider it. After all, the Navy's non-hidden carrier-based aircraft is the J-15 mid-size carrier-based aircraft. If the FC-31 itself does not have corresponding advantages, the naval carrier-based aircraft forces do not mind using the J-20 to convert them into carrier-based aircraft.

There are also many discussions about the J-20 ship

Therefore, the FC-31 can eventually be able to change, and began to transfer to confidential development and test flights in the name of J-35. It has both fate, but more than 601 has been testing from 2012 to now. In the past 10 years, FC has been in FC. -31 The results of continuous trials and verification. Judging from the "35" of the 350003 body number and "35" on the prototype of this prototype, the FC-31 has successfully Nirvana as the J-35.

For India, the maturity of the J-35 stealth fighter is definitely not a good news. Although the J-20 stealth fighter, as the first mature stealth fighter in China, some of the technical and design concepts that have been adopted will continue to be used on the J-35 stealth fighter, but this does not mean That is the same. The former is a heavy stealth fighter, using a large push, the latter is a medium -sized stealth fighter, which uses medium push. In actual combat, the characteristics, combat characteristics and response methods are different.

India not only has a dispute between China -India border on the China -India border issue, but also has been planning "to make land" and threatened China with the shipping line of China on the Indian Ocean. After the J-35 stealth fighter matures, India may not only encounter a carrier-based version of the J-35 stealth fighter at sea, but also may encounter the "strong union" of the J-20 and F-35 on the airspace near the China-India border. The main thing is that the developer of the J-35 stealth fighter has confirmed that the Future J-35 will also develop a foreign trade version. Considering the long -term cooperative relationship between China and Pakistan in military fighters, Pakistan will be equipped with the fifth -generation stealth fighter earlier than India.

I want to buy it when the J-35 is still FC-31

The progress of India's stealth fighter project is not smooth, and India currently choose two roads to go at the same time. The first road is outsourcing, and constantly trying to buy F-35 stealth fighters from the United States. The second road is homemade, trying to develop a domestic medium stealth fighter with the US-made F-35 target. Personally, the cost and time that India needs to pay on the second road will be very large. It is even possible that the domestic AMCA stealth fighter is still unable to mature when the US F-35 stealth fighter has been purchased.

Because the development of stealth fighters is different from conventional fighters, not to mention stealth coating and avionics systems, only built -in bullets are normally opened to put ammunition in the supersonic flight state, and a large amount of data test is required for large diameter wind tunnels. Why does the KF-21 Block1 in South Korea not use a built-in magazine with completely invisible hidden in the abdomen at this stage, but use the unique semi-buried machine belly shelf? It is because the United States is unwilling to provide wind tunnel support to South Korea, and Europe also searches in this area. As a last resort, Koreans can only do a "look" for test flight.

The overall situation of the Indian military aviation industry is not much stronger than that of South Korea. The long -term trial of large -diameter wind tunnels is a great challenge for the Indian military aviation industry. Therefore, this can also be understood, why Indian media pays so much attention to the Chinese J-35 stealth fighter project.

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