[Military Sub-Plane] Author: leon
Recently, according to CCTV. It has been learned that last year, a certain batch of J-11B and J-10C fighters on the mainland were equipped with domestic turbofan-10B "Taihang" engines, and these fighters with "Chinese hearts" have now carried out daily combat readiness training in the southern theater.
For the Continental Air Force, the strategic significance of our turbofan-10B engine being able to integrate into our army's combat system and have actual combat capabilities from the side is very important, and may even greatly improve the overall strength of our air force. Is it just a "stuck neck"? To analyze this problem, we must start from the "design source" of this fighter.
▲ The J-11B equipped with a domestic engine can already carry out daily combat readiness training, which may show from the side that the performance of the mainland turbofan-10B is not weaker than the original Russian engine
First of all, for our army, the traditional Russian fighter almost emphasizes a "air combat" type of combat capability, for the current Russian fighter, perhaps because of the Russian army's tight funding problem, their air force seems to pay more attention to the use of unguided weapons to a certain extent, of course, the use of such non-guided weapons often require fighter pilots to fly at low altitude, pouring ammunition to the designated target position.
Therefore, such a combat style that relies on pilot experience can indeed save the cost of fighter detection and other high-end equipment installation and design, but the disadvantages of this must be known to everyone now, so that the risk of fighters being shot down will rise sharply, and the Su-34 and Su-30 fighters lost by the Russian side because of low-altitude bomb dropping in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict can already explain this problem.
▲ Perhaps because of the lack of military expenditure, in this Russian-Ukrainian conflict, fighter-bombers such as the Su-34 can only carry traditional non-guided weapons to carry low-altitude air strikes against the enemy, making it difficult to play its air mobility advantage, and the risk of being shot down will also increase
Therefore, for our army, we have a high probability to avoid this problem, the CCTV exposure of the J-11B and the current Russian fighter has a big difference, first of all, for the J-11B, it is now installed is a domestic pulse Doppler reconnaissance radar, such radar detection distance reached 150 kilometers, at the same time, can also be 6 targets for locked attack, is more focused on over-the-horizon combat.
Moreover, for the J-11B, the digital flight control system it uses makes the operation accuracy of the fighter stronger than its original, making our J-11B more able to play the advantages of precision-guided weapons, of course, it is also equipped with the domestic Thunderbolt-12 air-to-air missile may reflect this, the maximum range of such missiles can reach 70 kilometers, compared with the original Sukhoi fighter equipped with only the maximum range of R-77 missiles with a maximum range of 50 kilometers, its over-the-horizon combat capability is very strong.
▲ Compared with the traditional Russian fighter, the J-11B pays more attention to the performance of over-the-horizon air combat
It is not difficult to see that for our army, with the strong maneuverability and good range advantages inherent in the current J-11 series born out of the Su-27 series, the J-11 series can actually be completely installed by the mainland air force in large quantities and become the backbone main force of the mainland air force.
Of course, although precision-guided weapons can hit enemy targets relatively accurately, but modern warfare is fighting for the overall combat system, the enemy we are facing is not only composed of one or two superior equipment, the enemy we are facing is most likely to be a systematic combat community, and the large probability of large-scale air warfare will not be an exception, and in this case, the overall output of firepower of our own air combat units is also very important.
▲ The J-11B series may become a defect in filling the shortcomings of the strength of the second-generation aircraft currently installed by the mainland air force, so that the level of our air force can be improved as a whole
Therefore, for our army's J-11B, the biggest problem it is now facing may be the problem of production capacity, after all, whether our own army has a numerical advantage is one of the fundamental factors affecting the firepower output capability of the overall combat formation, and for the previous old J-11 series, because the mainland cannot overcome its engine problems, the need to use russian imported engines has become an objective problem that restricts the production capacity of our J-11 series fighters and the cost performance.
However, according to CCTV reports, the problem of restricting the development of the J-11 series has now been solved by the mainland. With the continent's complete industrial system, rapidly increasing production capacity is not a difficult task for the mainland. Similarly, in wartime, the mainland now has the ability to be self-sufficient, which further improves our overall sustainable combat capability, that is, in the face of some "military powers" that cannot achieve self-sufficiency in armaments, time is on our side.
▲ The J-11B relies on its superiority in over-the-horizon combat and the advantages of the strong maneuverability of Russian fighters, and then relies on the considerable number of equipment, it can create an irreparable overall strength gap for potential enemies on some continents
In the future, with the advantages of the overall reliable performance of the J-11 series and the relatively cheap manufacturing cost, our J-11 may be reloaded in large quantities by the continental air force in the near future. Thus, the overall strength of the mainland's air force will fundamentally achieve a leap across the era.