China’s J-15T Is Changing Aircraft Carrier Race - Inside Its Production
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China’s J-15T Is Changing Aircraft Carrier Race - Inside Its Production
China’s J-15T is becoming a key part of the country’s rapidly evolving aircraft carrier capability — but how did China develop and produce a carrier-based fighter capable of operating from the new Fujian aircraft carrier so quickly?
The J-15T is more than an upgraded version of China’s original J-15. It was redesigned for catapult operations, with reinforced landing gear, a launch bar, an arresting hook, folding wings, new avionics, an AESA radar, and the domestic WS-10 engine.
But the most interesting part may be how China built it.
Instead of starting from a clean sheet, Shenyang Aircraft Corporation was able to reuse an existing airframe, production infrastructure, suppliers, manufacturing experience, and engineering knowledge developed through the J-15, J-11, and J-16 programs.
At the same time, China developed the J-15T alongside the Fujian carrier and tested key carrier systems on land before bringing them together at sea.
China’s J-15T Is Changing Aircraft Carrier Race - Inside Its Production
That combination of existing industrial capacity, parallel development, and domestic technology helped China move the J-15T from development into carrier operations remarkably quickly.
And the implications go beyond one fighter.
The J-15T is part of a much larger transition — from China’s ski-jump carriers to electromagnetic catapult operations, and from a single carrier fighter to an increasingly integrated carrier aviation system.
If you enjoy deep dives into how China, Russia, the United States, and other major aviation powers develop and build new aircraft, subscribe to CIVIL AVIA.
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Los Chinos no sólo la copiaron. La mejoraron
La pregunta es por que eeuu se demora tanto tiempo en terminar lo que empieza???
USA's 6th Gen fighter took its maiden flight in 2022,and there are No videos of it on the internet.
Trump's military parade was deliberately kept as a joke compared to chinese military parade.
The only time chinese weapons saw combat was on May 7th in indo-pak clash. American weapons are fully tested against iran, and that war is far from over.
the canards were added for stability reasons due to extra weight of the strengthened plane for carrier work
and also because of the extra weight of the big radar in the nose.,
some thing the earlier versions did not have so no canards needed
China’s J-15T Is Changing Aircraft Carrier Race - Inside Its Production
CIVIL AVIA
29,840 views
China’s J-15T Is Changing Aircraft Carrier Race - Inside Its Production
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#civilavia #j15 #aviation #aircraft
===
China’s J-15T Is Changing Aircraft Carrier Race - Inside Its Production
China’s J-15T is becoming a key part of the country’s rapidly evolving aircraft carrier capability — but how did China develop and produce a carrier-based fighter capable of operating from the new Fujian aircraft carrier so quickly?
The J-15T is more than an upgraded version of China’s original J-15. It was redesigned for catapult operations, with reinforced landing gear, a launch bar, an arresting hook, folding wings, new avionics, an AESA radar, and the domestic WS-10 engine.
But the most interesting part may be how China built it.
Instead of starting from a clean sheet, Shenyang Aircraft Corporation was able to reuse an existing airframe, production infrastructure, suppliers, manufacturing experience, and engineering knowledge developed through the J-15, J-11, and J-16 programs.
At the same time, China developed the J-15T alongside the Fujian carrier and tested key carrier systems on land before bringing them together at sea.
China’s J-15T Is Changing Aircraft Carrier Race - Inside Its Production
That combination of existing industrial capacity, parallel development, and domestic technology helped China move the J-15T from development into carrier operations remarkably quickly.
And the implications go beyond one fighter.
The J-15T is part of a much larger transition — from China’s ski-jump carriers to electromagnetic catapult operations, and from a single carrier fighter to an increasingly integrated carrier aviation system.
If you enjoy deep dives into how China, Russia, the United States, and other major aviation powers develop and build new aircraft, subscribe to CIVIL AVIA.