[🇵🇰-Airforce] J-10CE News and Discussions

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The Article will share light on Pakistan Airforce’s latest Platform - The J-10 C/P ; Its Marquee Capabilities, the choice of Power Plant , AESA Radar , Kinematics and Flight envelope and Possible Role.

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INTRODUCTION :​

As per its deployment in PLAAF - The J-10 C is well-optimized for A2A Combat [Both WVR as well as BVR] ; Equipped with High Military Thrust engine , 11 Hard points & A higher-output AESA radar as compared to the JF-17 Block-3.

[J-10C carrying a YJ-83K / C-802 Subsonic Anti Ship Cruise Missile AShM]

After the deployments tactics are optimised in next say 2 years - PAF now has an Offensive Asset & Capability that can take on practically any 4.5+ Generation current threat in the air. The PAF can also rapidly scale up the Fleet of J-10 C/P at an affordable Cost, Compared to any competing US/ West or Russian Platform.

THE POWER PLANT DECISION :

PAF was evaluating this bird since its B version and many upgrades were done overtime [Including Valuable insights given by F-16 operating PAF], till it reached to C variant.

However the most critical decision was to use Russian or Chinese engine.

Remember that Thunder has still not switched to Chinese WS-13 engine & future numbers are slated with RD-93MA improved Russian engines reportedly.

-With No official reports available as of now - Closely analyzing the aircraft’s thrust petals, the Pakistani J-10 C/P appears to be powered by the Chinese Shenyang WS-10B power plant -

NOT , the Russian Saturn AL-31F.

-The key visual differences being that the After-burner nozzle petal’s of Taihang WS-10B are much Wider & It has a ‘Ring structure’ around the interior of the nozzle - Both these features not available on Russian AL-31.

AL-31F - Two Shaft After burning Turbofan Power Plant

• Length : 4,945 mm
• Diameter :
  • Inlet - 905 mm
  • External Max : 1,280 mm
• Dry Weight : 1,520 kg
• Power output :
  • Dry Thrust - 76.2 kN (17,100 lbf)
  • With After burner - 122.6 kN (27,600 lbf ).

Chinese Shenyang WS-10 power plant​

WS-10A Taihang Project 1982 - Testinbg Dec 1992

• Primarily based on France CFM56 & GE F101-GE-102
• Design :
  • 3-Fan Stages
  • 9-Compressor Stages
  • Turbine : 1 HP / 2 LP stages
  • By Pass Ratio — 0.78 :1.0
  • Short annular Combustor with air blast atomizer
  • Air film cooling blade
  • Single crystal nickel-based turbine blades
  • Turbine inlet temperature: ~1750 K
• Thrust :
  • 13,500 kg (29,763 lbs - 132.4 kN) of Afterburner thrust
  • 7.5 : 1.0 TWR
  • Full Authority Digital Engine Control) FADEC*

*Some Chinese reports claim that the Engine core used by WS-10 is the same as AL-31F.

And that the FADEC has components Licensed by Russian Lylka Saturn.

 

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WS-10B First variant : 13,766 kg (135 kN) ;

Able to Fly Supersonic in clean configuration without After burners doing Pseudo-Super Cruise.


THE MARQUEE FEATURES

-Equipped with 1200+ T/R Active electronically scanned array (AESA) fire-control radar

New HUD, MFD, RWRs

I.R.S.T-LR

IFR Probe

C-802 Anti Ship Missiles

YJ-91 Anti radiation H.A.R.M Missiles

HMD , Imaging infrared seeker (IIR) PL-10 Fox-2 HOBS

WS-10B High Thrust Indigenous engine and

OEM Dual-pulse rocket motor with Ramjet Sustainer PL-15 Long range air-to-air BVR Missile.

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THE A.E.S.A RADAR

AVIC - Radar and Electronic Equipment Research Academy under guidance of Mr. Zhang Kunhui (张昆辉, 1963 -) designed the AESA radar for J-10B with its modified Nose.

The AESA for J-10B was finally developed in 2008 in 08 years. Hence from Mech Steered planar slotted array - directly to AESA, J-10 took a quantum leap by skipping any PESA version.

The NEXT Gen to J-10B Radar incorporating GaN Technology - The Type 14XX NRIET KLJ-10 AESA radar with side looking TR modules is equipped in J-10C China.

There are 02 options available in KLJ-10 AESA :

-One with Two Side Facets with a Front Lobe.

• Second one with Single Front - Facet installation.

-KLJ-7A AESA Hybrid Cooled Radar in JF-17 Thunder Block III has reported ranges of 170 - 180 Kms for a standard fighter sized target RCS of 3–4 sq meter.

-The KLJ-10 AESA of J-10C , having greater TR Modules, Improved Cooling and Heat dissipation , Extra Power available should exceeds the KLJ-7A AESA in Range, Power & SAR by atleast 20%..

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J - 10 C / P landed in Pakistan

[J-10C/P Thread PAF March - 2022] -Chinese Single engine Canard delta Multi role 4.5 Gen J-10 C/P fighter jets first batch have landed in PAF Base Minhas, Pakistan, their first home away from China. https://twitter.com/Jana_Shah/status/1499636548891197441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetemb...

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The beginning [Lavi & J-9]

Towards being improved and exported….