Shenyang J-15 "Flying Shark"

OMG !!! The biggest surprise besides the fact that the J-35A today was another prototype, not only the J-15D revealed, but even as an operational aircraft and even more important: THe J-15T shown is the 31st Batch 02 aircraft

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Smart move from the chinese... they have now one same plane (J-15T) for their three carriers. J-15T unifies CATOBAR and STOBAR into a single airframe.
And if J-15 can do that, so can J-35, ever more drawn from a clean sheet of paper (unlike Su-33 - J-15).

What is truly interesting is that the two STOBAR carriers will not be limited to training, but actually combat ships, since J-15T is "carrier agnostic".
 
Deino said:
OMG !!! The biggest surprise besides the fact that the J-35A today was another prototype, not only the J-15D revealed, but even as an operational aircraft and even more important: THe J-15T shown is the 31st Batch 02 aircraft

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Is it just me or do those underwing pods look beefier than J-16D's pods? If you ask me, it is prolly an improved version of the same pod.

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snne said:
Is it just me or do those underwing pods look beefier than J-16D's pods? If you ask me, it is prolly an improved version of the same pod.

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Will they have a version that controls drone? How many more surprises will China bring before the Air Show officially opens?
 
Gwalker18 said:
... How many more surprises will China bring before the Air Show officially opens?
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Good question, ... That's indeed correct and alongside all the excitement - you hardly dare ask what else might be show? KJ-600, naval J-35? (or even "water"? ;) ) there is also a bit of thoughtfulness, as it shows that we have to question so many things and these are not just confusing designations!

Either we are simply completely behind - and even more than the 6-12 months I usually rate as "normal" - with our findings (which I fear) and what we believe to know, or we are being completely "led down the garden path" (which I don't really believe or hope).
 
helmutkohl said:
is this a SEAD or EW variant?

would be very confusing if they ended up meeting Indian Su-30MKIs one day.
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There are enough differences between the Su-30MKI and J-15D to discriminate between them. The painscheme alone, the shorter tailsting and tailhook and at least the wingtip pods. As the EW pods are probably standard outfit for this variant there should be no confusion to the trained eye.
 
Scorpion82 said:
There are enough differences between the Su-30MKI and J-15D to discriminate between them. The painscheme alone, the shorter tailsting and tailhook and at least the wingtip pods. As the EW pods are probably standard outfit for this variant there should be no confusion to the trained eye.
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In the air you have to be close enough to see.
Also, until D versions, ew pods on the wing rails were one of the ways to immediately tell apart Russian flankers from Chinese ones. Now even this one is gone. :)
 
Looks like the landing gear is still down you can see it moments before the J-15 crashed. So it could be mechanical problems snne. Good for the pilot that he managed to eject.
 
Perhaps there was a problem with the engine, the 31F, a single engine turned off the stall tailspin, smashed vertically into the ground. The pilot had no external injuries
 
snne said:
Looks like it crashed shortly after take-off/before landing(?) presumably due to mechanical issues?
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That got me thinking, should the landing gear automatically deploy a while after ejection to slow an aircraft down so it causes slightly less damage?
 
FighterJock said:
Looks like the landing gear is still down you can see it moments before the J-15 crashed. So it could be mechanical problems snne. Good for the pilot that he managed to eject.
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If the landing gear is still down chances are this occurred during late landing or early takeoff, and given the speeds the aircraft was at (or rather, lack of speed), I suspect it was an engine problem, which is partially visible based on the different dilations of the two engine nozzles which is visible.

Sudden loss of thrust could certainly cause an aircraft to drop like that if it was already at very low speed. Differential could be wide; from internal factors to the aircraft or external factors like a bird strike
 
TMA1 said:
Glad he can go home to his family and hope nobody else was hurt in the maelstrom.

It looks like it was tumbling. Also about the engines I don't think even old model j-15 fighters like this one use al-31 engines anymore.
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No, all production J-15s (STOBAR J-15s, twin seat STOBAR J-15Ss, EW J-15Ds, and CATOBAR J-15Ts) use Al-31s.

There are a few one off prototypes that use WS-10s but all regular production/frontline service J-15 variants use Al-31s as of present.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if the J-15 had suffered a double engine failure.
 
Picture shows flaps in landing position with one flap missing. So, it was a touch & go or an aborted landing followed by a flight departure, supposedly from the imbalance of lift.
 
TomcatViP said:
Picture shows flaps in landing position with one flap missing. So, it was a touch & go or an aborted landing followed by a flight departure, supposedly from the imbalance of lift.
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Where do you See one flap missing?
 
It will be interesting to see what the investigation reveals as to the root cause of the crash was, I wonder if the flight data recorders were recovered and what state they were in and to see what data can be recovered from them.
 
Is the flaperon up instead of being down? It doesn’t seem to match what it should be doing at landing/takeoff configuration. Looking at it more carefully, one engine has the nozzle open and the other engine has it closed; It could have been a single-engine failure and being too slow to prevent a flat spin.
 
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TomcatViP said:
Sorry but I don't bite it.
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The point is, it's just a very short low quality video and some are trying to over-interpret from an enlarged, maybe even AI-enhanced still from it to deduct anything! IMO it is a too small and blurry image showing a J-15 with the flaps just in the regular position but facing towards the camera that it is barely visible. It looks almost exactly like the one on the other side.

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