
100 F- 10A into active service
China's first publicly acknowledged in the new F -10 fighter jet of the first two years , it has been in service . Currently about 100 of the F- 10A in the People's Liberation Army Air Force service , customers in China to export arms purchase offer for each aircraft type at about 42 million U.S. dollars . China is a monthly 2-3 at the rate of J- 10 aircraft .
J -10 's development work began 20 years ago , when the Chinese try to develop a kind of energy and the Russian MiG- 29, Su- 27 fighters and rival the U.S. F16 fighter jets . But until 1998 , first flight of its prototype was successful . By 2002, China produced nine prototype , through continuous flight test , and resolve the hundreds of various small problems .
F- 10B has five improvement
Improved F- 10A F- 10B 's nose with the U.S. F-16Block60 very similar, and both front upward using phased array radar, windshield before the installation of photoelectric detectors, and even the location of strip lights for night formation are also similar . According to U.S. media reports, F- 10B made these improvements, capable of a variety of more complex tasks .
Compared to the initial guess from the picture than the F- 10A J- 10B has five areas of improvement , and these changes can result in improved aircraft performance , such as : improve the radar stealth capabilities; aircraft to accelerate system performance, aircraft weight , mobility, Range will be improved; increased photoelectric detector .
But the current appearance is 10B, which is half of our three generations . Major General Zhang said the former while 10 is the third generation and a half , if is 10B , then okay ( because only full compliance of 10B to be three generations and a half ) , if it is said that now the forces of J -10 , then I can only think that Comrade General recently kimchi to eat more, with stick astray