Shenyang J-15 aircraft carrier-based aircraft

[Akasa]

You mean the TWO-SEATER CF-18Bs?

Please note that Canada does not have any lead in fighter trainers or advanced jet trainers like the L-15 or JL-9.

I did not say that the J-15 will be specifically used for training. Newly graduated pilots could start on the J-15 to get used to flying on a real carrier while the more advanced aircraft are reserved for senior pilots.

 

[lcloo]

Please note that Canada does not have any lead in fighter trainers or advanced jet trainers like the L-15 or JL-9.

I did not say that the J-15 will be specifically used for training. Newly graduated pilots could start on the J-15 to get used to flying on a real carrier while the more advanced aircraft are reserved for senior pilots.

J-15 can be used for pilot certification flights on day and night carrier landing, also for "buddy inflight refueling" training. Night landing on deck is the most dangerous. Certification flights need not have an instructor onboard the aircraft as the pilot should be already well trained.

 

[Akasa]

J-15 can be used for pilot certification flights on day and night carrier landing, also for "buddy inflight refueling" training. Night landing on deck is the most dangerous. Certification flights need not have an instructor onboard the aircraft as the pilot should be already well trained.

We do not know if the J-15 possesses buddy refueling capability yet.

 

[lcloo]

We do not know if the J-15 possesses buddy refueling capability yet.

I hope PLAN will seriously develop this capability because it is common for aircraft to run low in fuel after returning from a long mission from carrier, if the weather or accident onboard carrier does not permit immediate deck landing, inflight refuel becomes critical.

 

[siegecrossbow]

We do not know if the J-15 possesses buddy refueling capability yet.

Another concern would be the relatively low number of tankers that the PLAAF currently fields.

 

[Akasa]

I hope PLAN will seriously develop this capability because it is common for aircraft to run low in fuel after returning from a long mission from carrier, if the weather or accident onboard carrier does not permit immediate deck landing, inflight refuel becomes critical.

It is possible that they do have this capability but just haven't demonstrated it yet.

 

[Akasa]

Another concern would be the relatively low number of tankers that the PLAAF currently fields.

Currently PLA/NAF fighters would be able to operate for regional defense without tankers. If the Air Force is to expand its role internationally, I have no doubt they could build a tanker variant of the Y-20.

 

[lawxx]

 

[wmdisinfo]

air superority fighter this is a beauty

 

[Mytime]

Nice Rip off

 

[beijing consensus]

Nice Rip off

better than anything innovative india produces.

 

[rai_kamal]

better than anything innovative india produces.

Sir,i think it looks like sukhois there is nothing new innovative.
But still you have some changes in it so may be it can be better than mkis and j-11.
We would love to compare them with super sukhois which will come in 2012..
waiting for it..

 

[Secur]

Nice Rip off

Some cant even do that Trying something for decades

 

[Mytime]

better than anything innovative india produces.

J-15 is indeed "Innovative"

India procures the license to build Su30MKI in India and build it on our own rather than going for unlicensed rip offs

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

These are the old pics of the prototype.

Here is a better recent pic.