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Some time ago, the results of the mainland's J-35 test were exposed by the Indian media, and India seems to feel that it has seized the weakness of our fighters. Indian media said on the official news website that the quality of the Russian aircraft engine copied by China is not up to par, the fuel of the fighter is not completely burned, and the heat emitted is too obvious, so there is a problem of black smoke.
At the same time, the Indian media believe that the stealth capability of the J-35 is not strong, but is the fact really as stated by the Indian media? Will the black smoke on the plane really affect the stealth performance of the J-35?
Black smoke from the J-35 test flight
The J-35 fighter is a new multi-functional fighter that integrates stealth, high maneuverability, and advanced avionics system, and integrates air, air, ground and air-sea, and is the mainland's latest fifth-generation aircraft. The success of the J-35 represents the highest level of modern fighter technology on the mainland. While the J-35 fills us with a sense of security, it also fills our neighbor India with jealousy and panics. Therefore, India used the picture of the fighter coming out of nowhere to find it, saying that it was our latest fighter, thinking that it had caught our "flaw", and began to deliberately belittle the J-35 stealth fighter.
In the whole report, the Indian media strongly pointed out that the performance of our country's engines is not good, it is easy to create smoke, expose the position of fighters, and it is easy for the enemy to seize the handle, and it will be easier for the enemy to gain an advantage in air combat. The stealth performance of the fifth-generation aircraft is very important, and it is necessary to minimize the radar reflectivity and spray expensive stealth coatings. In India, a news item was published on the defense research website, which they believed was a photo of the J-35 suddenly spewing black smoke from its tail during training.
Therefore, India insists that our country's J-35 is based on Russian aircraft engines, so it is inferior in performance to the original Russian model, which is also the main reason for the black smoke. However, whether the truth is as the Indian media says needs to be further verified.
India has been hoping for more than a day or two that China's fifth-generation fighter development will hit a bottleneck, thus frustrating China's research and development plan. After all, what they can't make themselves, they definitely don't want the mainland to produce it, it's just that they can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour, and if they can't get it, they will slander it, so the J-35 is not as bad as the Indian media describes.
And the picture of the J-35 black smoke reported by India is purely a trouble, the appearance and color of the fighter on the picture are inconsistent with the recent flight video, and the picture they released is the first flight demonstration of the J-35 at the aviation exhibition in Zhuhai, China in 2014, and it is not what we now call the J-35, the two are not the same thing.
In addition, it is normal for an aircraft to emit black smoke for a few seconds during high-speed flight, even if it is a relatively advanced fighter jet, after taking off, there will be a few seconds of smoke. The most advanced F22 in the United States will also emit a puff of black smoke when it is lifted off, and the American F22 fighter jet will emit black smoke for a longer time than the continental J-35 fighter, and this situation will only occur when the fighter is flying at high speed.
The state of Indian fighters
India, while discrediting the mainland's air force fighters, has not yet realized the quality of its own air fighters. Among them, India's best fighter, the Su-30MKI, can only benchmark the J-16 fighters on the mainland. The Su-30MKI is loaded with a new and an old AL-31FP engine with only 12.5 tons of thrust. The J-16 is loaded with two brand-new WS-10B engines with a thrust of up to 14.5 tons, so compared with the engine life and stability of the two fighters, the continental J-16 is much higher than the Indian Su-30MKI.
In terms of the number of fighter planes, India has as many as 600 fighters, but when it comes to actual combat, India has less than 400 fighters at its disposal. At the same time, if we compare Indian fighter jets with those in the western part of the mainland, although India has more fighters in terms of quantity, India has more than 400 fighters, and there are only more than 170 fighters in the western region, but the quality of each fighter in our western region is far higher than that of India, and the number of fourth- and fifth-generation aircraft in our western region is the largest, while India does not even have a single fifth-generation aircraft.
Therefore, with the quality of the western fighters, India cannot compare, and we don't know where India's self-confidence comes from, let alone compare the fighters of all China, and it will only be impossible to see if it loses.
Let's just say that the combat effectiveness of the Air Force is not only determined by the quantity and quality of aircraft, but also by the quality and ability of pilots. And India's air force, in this regard, is even worse, after all, India is known all over the world as a "big crasher", this reputation is estimated to be famous all over the world, who will be particularly inferior to him in this aspect, if you want to promulgate the world's first crash country, then this title can only be used by India.
Whether it is India's own fighter jet or that of other countries, as long as they use it, there will be crashes. So far, the total number of crashes in India is almost 200. From this aspect, it also reflects the quality and ability of the pilots of the Indian Air Force. As a result, "crashes" often occur.
On January 28, 2024, two Indian warplanes, Su-30MKI and Mirage 2000 fighters, crashed during a training session. One fighter plane carrying two pilots and one fighter plane carrying one pilot crashed in Pahagarh, Morena, Madhya Pradesh shortly after takeoff, with a pilot ejecting, and the overall casualty is unclear.
On March 12, 2024, the Indian Air Force's Tejas fighter jet dropped the plane and ejected less than 10 minutes after takeoff during a combat training flight in Jaiselmer. After the pilot of 'Brilliant' parachuted, the fighter did not immediately dive and crash, but flew a long distance at a low speed and stable attitude before falling down, and after the crash, the wreckage began to burn with flames.
The accident caused huge losses to the serial production of the Tejas fighter jet, once again exposing the poor safety record of the Indian Air Force. In this regard, I can only say to India that it will not improve its own air force by paying more attention to its own air force level and denigrating others' own air force level.
The current situation of the J-35
The J-35 is the latest stealth fighter developed by the mainland, an advanced fighter with the characteristics of a fifth-generation aircraft. The use of special stealth design and radar absorbing materials makes it easier for the J-35 to approach combat targets in the process of combat, greatly improving combat efficiency and survival rate on the battlefield.
At the same time, the J-35 is equipped with advanced electronic systems, data links and radars, which can provide fighter pilots with all-round, real-time battlefield intelligence. In this way, the J-35 has stronger command capabilities and can better adapt to the complex battlefield environment.
The continental J-35 fighter was originally equipped with the Russian RD-93 engine, but in recent years, the domestic turbofan-13 and turbofan-19 engines have been developed, which are much higher than the engines produced in Russia in terms of thrust, reliability and service life, so the current J-35 uses the domestic engine turbofan-19 developed by the mainland.
From this aspect, it can be seen that the Indian news report that we imitate the Russian generator is purely a fabrication, we are not imitating, at the beginning it was a direct use of the Russian generator, but the mainland now has its own fighter generator. Moreover, the mainland's latest fifth-generation aircraft use all domestic generators. Therefore, for China now, the engine can no longer restrain our combat effectiveness.
The mainland's air force is constantly improving, and compared with India's penchant for slandering others, it is better to pay more attention to itself in order to improve its own military level.
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[1] China.com - The mainland J-35 appeared, full of three technical details, and the importance is no less than that of the J-20 fighter
[2] Huanqiu.com - AVIC clarifies that the J-31 can kill the F35, and experts say it's too early
[3] Phoenix.com - J-35 successfully made its first flight, foreign media: The big event has been decided, and the Chinese Navy is happy to mention a new version of the stealth fighter