When many friends talk about the J-35, they are always a little confused about its model, because it is called both FC-31 and J-35, what is going on? In fact, this is the difference between export and self-use. At the beginning, the FC-31 was a project of our AVIC Shenfei itself, and it was not a project of our military, let alone our national project, so its company gave an enterprise model of FC-31.
Later, we found that on a certain plane in the test flight, the word 35 appeared on it, so everyone thought that our own model should be J-35. However, it has not been confirmed whether it is J-35 or not, so let's call it J-35 for the time being.
Another point, the Pakistani side said that it wants to introduce the J-35 produced by Shenfei, if the FC-31 will be officially identified as J-35 in the future, if he is mass-produced, it will really replace the previous generation of fighters in the world in the future.
Pakistani officials have mentioned many times that they will purchase our J-35, which is an objective demand for them in the future, and now they are letting off steam, as soon as they want to build momentum and suppress India. Second, it also expresses a kind of confidence in our future cooperation, and even has a little bit to urge.
The data released by Pakistan is actually the data of the FC-31 that we made public at the air show, and even some elements of Pakistan's own speculation and speculation. As for the various analyses they say on the Internet, this is just one of their claims and speculations.
But let's say again, if the J-35 is finalized, its performance will be greatly improved compared to the FC-31, that is, Pakistan is now taking out these data, maybe it is lagging behind.
In terms of power, our earliest prototype of the FC-31 was exhibited at the Zhuhai Air Show, using the Russian RT-93 engine, and it is speculated that when developing the J-35, it has been replaced with our domestic turbofan-13 E, and it is expected that in the future, if the J-35 is mass-produced, a stronger turbofan-19 series will be used.
Turbofan-19 is an advanced four-generation medium thrust, at present, only the United States, Britain and China have this super thrust of the fourth generation of thrust, it is expected that its maximum thrust can reach 12 tons, that J-35 An aircraft with two engines, the total thrust can reach 24 tons, the fuel consumption rate will also be greatly reduced, the maximum range and combat radius will also be improved, and the two engines can make the J-35 have the ability to cruise at supersonic speed, and this is not good for the current F-35 in the United States.
Moreover, our radar, avionics, electronic equipment informatization and artificial intelligence technology have reached the world's advanced level, and some are still in the leading position in the world. So it is possible to use a variety of air combat and ground attacks**, so it is entirely possible to surpass the F-35 in these aspects.
But then again, to measure the sophistication of an aircraft model, it's not just some data, you also have to look at some comprehensive situation. For example, as far as our turbofan-19 engine is concerned, although we have developed it, we still need further observation on whether it can surpass the F-35 in terms of thrust, life and reliability, and the three models of the Pwt-135 PW100, 400 and 600 of Pratt & Whitney that we are currently using.
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