Deck fighters J-15 began to enter the arms of the Chinese Navy
Shenyang Aircraft Company is mass-producing and supplying J-15 carrier-based fighter jets for aviation The Chinese Navy, mil.news.sina.com.cn reports today.
Currently there are 9 prototypes (7, 551, 552, 553, 554, 555 and 556 X-flight 557, 101, 102, 103, 104, 12, 15, 6, 8, 2015, 35, XNUMX, XNUMX, XNUMX, XNUMX, XNUMX, XNUMX, XNUMX, XNUMX, XNUMX, XNUMX, XNUMX, XNUMX, XNUMX, XNUMX, XNUMX, XNUMX, XNUMX, XNUMX, XNUMX, XNUMX, and XNUMX The number of aircraft of the first production batch can be XNUMX-XNUMX units, the stocks are from XNUMX to XNUMX machines. As expected, in XNUMX, the number of aircraft of this type will be about XNUMX units.
According to analysts, this aircraft is based on the prototype T-10K-3, obtained from Ukraine (Su-33) using J-11B / BS technology (Chinese copy of Su-27SK / UBC).
J-15 is the first generation of Chinese carrier-based fighters, created on the basis of the third-generation aircraft (the Chinese designation of the fourth generation - approx. "VP"). The prototype made the first flight of 31 August 2009 of the year, 15 of September 2013, the first take-offs and landings with a combat load on the aircraft carrier "Liaoning" (ex- "Varyag") were made. It is reported that a double version of the J-15 fighter aircraft made its first flight.
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