The Fujian warship has entered the trial stage, indicating that the aircraft carrier will enter service with the PLA Navy fleet as soon as possible, and the new carrier-based aircraft prepared for the Fujian ship have also been intensively tested in the near future.
In the past two days, the test flight test screen of the J-35 fighter was exposed on the Internet, showing that the tail of the J-35 engine spewed bursts of black smoke, but I didn't expect this to make the Indian media catch the "black spot", the Indian media said that the black smoke highlighted a series of technical problems in China's stealth fighters.
J-35 test flight emitted black smoke, Indian media "excited"
The Indian media "Indian Defense" website said that the new video of China's J-35 test flight caused widespread discussion in the outside world, but when the J-35 took off, bursts of black smoke from the tail engine caused controversy. As the next generation of carrier-based fighters of the People's Liberation Army, the J-35 uses two turbofan 13 engines, and will be replaced with a more powerful turbofan 19 engine in the future.
RD-93 engine
Previously, the foundation of China's aviation industry was relatively weak, and in the 2010s, the prototype of the J-35 project FC-31 made its first flight, using a Russian-made RD-93 engine.
The RD-93 engine is actually the export model of the RD-33 engine developed during the Soviet period, and this engine has been mass-produced for more than 40 years, in addition to equipping MiG-29 and MiG-35 fighters, this engine is mainly equipped with the Thunder Dragon fighter jointly developed by China and Pakistan.
The RD-93 engine only solved the problem of whether there was a problem
However, the RD-93 engine only solves the problem of whether there is a problem, and the performance cannot fully meet the needs of the PLA, so on the basis of the RD-93 engine, the subsequent Continental has carried out the development of an upgraded turbofan 13 engine.
The successful development of the turbofan 13 shows that China has solved the problem of engine "stuck neck", and its dependence on Russian engines has been greatly weakened, and the performance of the turbofan 13 engine has been slightly improved compared with the RD-93 engine, and the reliability is better.
Therefore, both the Thunder and the J-35 began to use the turbofan 13 engine, while the more advanced and larger thrust turbofan 19 is being developed, which is the main engine of the future naval carrier-based aircraft and the air force stealth aircraft.
The J-35 took off and emitted black smoke
Indian media said that the J-35 test flight used a turbofan 13 engine, during the test, especially at the point when the engine was just started, the incomplete combustion of the engine during the take-off stage will lead to black smoke emissions, which can be said to be a normal phenomenon, and does not necessarily indicate that there is a problem with the engine itself.
J-35 stealth performance is not enough at all?
However, the Indian media suddenly changed their gear, but the appearance of black smoke will cause people to doubt the stealth performance of the J-35, a key feature of the stealth aircraft is to minimize the radar signal, the heat source is too obvious, and the visible black smoke can easily damage this advantage.
However, less than 3 seconds passed after the black smoke came out, and the J-35 returned to normal
The Indian media began to talk nonsense again, it is normal for black smoke to appear during the take-off phase of the aircraft, and under normal circumstances, in the starting and acceleration stages of the fighter engine, it leads to incomplete combustion.
Black smoke may be generated, and once the engine is running at a certain speed, the combustion will be more sufficient, and this phenomenon will not last.
But here in the Indian media, it has directly become a great event, and it can even affect the stealth performance of the aircraft.
The F-22 engine started and still emitted black smoke
In fact, it has already been said that only during the take-off phase will there be a brief period of black smoke, and even the American F-22 stealth fighter has also had this situation, is it possible that the stealth performance of the F-22 is not good?
Therefore, it can be seen that the Indian media editor lacks basic military knowledge, and black smoke is only a short-term normal phenomenon, and the impact on the J-35 fighter itself can be said to be 0.
The factors that can really affect the stealth performance of the aircraft mainly depend on the aerodynamic shape design of the aircraft itself, the process manufacturing level of the aircraft, the stealth composite materials, the coating of the stealth fighter, and the infrared heat source shielding treatment of the fighter tail nozzle.
Smearing and spreading rumors about China's domestically produced weapons is the strength of the Indian media
It can be said that in recent years, most of the negative news about China's domestically produced weapons can basically be confirmed to be from India's relevant media and military figures, who have "soured" and smeared China's domestically produced weapons at every turn, especially against China's domestically produced stealth aircraft.
The Indian Air Marshal also said that the J-20 is a "fake" fifth-generation aircraft, and its combat level is even inferior to the "Rafale" fighter plane that India bought from France, which was fiercely criticized by Western military experts.
Previously, China's Thunder fighters were exported to Myanmar, and the Indian media spread rumors that the quality of the fighters exported by China was not good, and the Burmese Air Force was unwilling to use them.
The 054AP introduced by the Pakistan Navy, the Pakistani side is full of praise for China's weapons and equipment
China's 054AP frigate was exported to Pakistan, the Indian media said that the Chinese warship was full of failures, the Pakistani officers and soldiers "dared not be angry", the Chinese submarine was exported to Thailand, and the Indian media even spread rumors that the Thai military intends to return the goods to China.
There is a very appropriate word for India's behavior, that is, "if you can't eat grapes, you can say that grapes are sour." Seeing that China has made rapid progress in the field of domestically produced weapons and equipment for so many years, and a series of weapons that have reached the world's advanced level have been installed in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and exported abroad, India feels psychologically unbalanced about this.
The Indian LCA fighter, which has just crashed, was established in 1983 and has only recently begun full-scale mass production
After all, India itself, on the other hand, was founded earlier than China, inherited a large number of industrial bases left by the British colonizers, and had a much stronger start than New China.
However, after years of development, the gap between the two countries in terms of comprehensive national strength has become more and more obvious. Especially in the military field, India's domestically produced fighter project took nearly 40 years, and the service is backward, the fighter cannot even complete independent research and development and production, and all important fuselage equipment has to be purchased, and key technologies are controlled by others.
The total number of PLA J-20 stealth fighters has exceeded 100, and the J-35 will be mass-produced soon, not to mention that China has already launched the project research and development of sixth-generation aircraft. Not to mention the Indian Navy and the Army, both of which are left with foreign suppliers, the supply of weapons and equipment to the Indian Army is a big problem.
India's domestic tank "Arjun", which has been developed and produced for more than 33 years, has been produced even if the Indian Army does not look down on it, and the indicators are too rubbish
All in all, India has always been "pretentious" towards China and considers itself amazing, but in the eyes of some netizens, India's series of actions are like "jumping clowns".
A series of "ridiculous" remarks completely ignore objective reality, lack objectivity and scientificity, and are never willing to seek truth from facts, and are more emotionally oriented, which actually reflects their anxiety and imbalance about the rise of China's military power.
Some of the content in the article comes from: 1. Indian fighter plane crashed Global Times