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Just asking in passing (no intend of starting a flame war) does this mean that Chinese carrier fast-jet wings will be a mix of J-15 and FC-31 ? big non stealth bird and smaller stealth one ?
Would make it similar to the Superbug / F-35 mix presently found on US decks.
Or did I missed a third Chinese naval combat jet ?
Sorry for the late reply but indeed, it was always expected that the J-15 will remain the PLAN's workhorse for several years to come and I expect the first aircraft to operate off the 003 to be solely the J-15B (aka serial J-15T) until the J-35 and KJ-600 will enter service later in the decade.
But maybe @Blitzo can add more.
Just asking in passing (no intend of starting a flame war) does this mean that Chinese carrier fast-jet wings will be a mix of J-15 and FC-31 ? big non stealth bird and smaller stealth one ?
Would make it similar to the Superbug / F-35 mix presently found on US decks.
Or did I missed a third Chinese naval combat jet ?
perhaps Deino would know more
but i havent heard of anything else besides the J-15 and FC-31
although some time ago there were murmurings of some kind of VTOL aircraft, I don't think anything more came out of that.
Indeed and I don't think there will be a VSTOL type ever, at least in the near future. By my understanding the PLAN will prefer to add UCAVS - IMO first as a variant of the CAC Wind Shadow / Cloud Shadow UAV we've seen on the catapult track at Huangdicun or maybe the new CH-6 and later eventually a Dark Sword or CH-7.