Shenyang J-15 "Flying Shark"

[Deino]

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

 

[helmutkohl]

is this a SEAD or EW variant?

would be very confusing if they ended up meeting Indian Su-30MKIs one day.

 

[Blitzo]

is this a SEAD or EW variant?

would be very confusing if they ended up meeting Indian Su-30MKIs one day.

It is the J-15 version of J-16D, which is best thought of as an equivalent to EA-18G (EW/SEAD variant)

 

[Archibald]

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".

 

[snne]

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.

 

[Gwalker18]

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.

Will they have a version that controls drone? How many more surprises will China bring before the Air Show officially opens?

 

[Deino]

... How many more surprises will China bring before the Air Show officially opens?

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).

 

[Scorpion82]

is this a SEAD or EW variant?

would be very confusing if they ended up meeting Indian Su-30MKIs one day.

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.

 

[Ainen]

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.

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.