The latest modification exposure of the J-10!The fuselage has a straight back, and the electronic war version of the J-10D is going to be released?

"Military and Military Secondary Point" Author: Lu Yan

Recently, there are new photos of the J -10 fighter on the Internet, and it is not news. The biggest feature of this yellow skin machine is that there is a obvious and straight back on the back. Many netizens call this plane as the legendary J -10D improved version of fighters. Some people think that this is a shelf -shaped fuel tank to increase the range of the J -10 fighter. So what is the meaning of such a change? What is the future development direction of the J -10?

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The J -10 fighter is the first 4th -generation fighter developed by my country. It was also called the third -generation fighter at the time, similar to the F16 and Phantom 2000 light single -shot fighters. The J -10 has a natural defect, that is, insufficient space in the machine, of course, this is also the common defect of such light machines. If the volume of the fuel tank is to be expanded, the installation space of other electronic equipment will be reduced, and it will also affect the ammunition of the fighter to a certain extent. The maximum take -off weight of the fighter does not refer to the empty weight plus the maximum fuel weight and the maximum load capacity. When normal operations, the loading and oil load must be made to make a certain choice.

▲ The J -10 is considered large in the light machine, but the amount of oil is still not much. Image source: network

Generally speaking, the easiest way to solve the problem of insufficient fuel in light fighters is to mount the auxiliary fuel tank. Taking the J -10 fighter as an example, a large -capacity auxiliary fuel tank will be mounted under the wing when performing the task normally. At the same time, there will be a slightly smaller auxiliary fuel tank with a total of three auxiliary fuel tanks. Because the mounted auxiliary fuel tanks occupy three shelves, the loading capacity of the aircraft is obviously affected, and the larger J -11 and J -16 have almost no affiliated with the auxiliary fuel tank. To this end, countries led by the United States and Russia have begun to develop preservation fuel tanks for fighter jets. In short, it is a kind of auxiliary fuel tank that is much smaller than the external auxiliary fuel tank, and it is generally installed on the back of the aircraft or other other than affecting the overall aircraft overall aircraft. Position of pneumatic layout. It's just that there is a problem with the shelf -shaped fuel tank, that is, the US self -use aircraft is only used by F15, and the F16 is almost not used. Instead, the F16 of the exit is used.

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The size of the shelf -shaped fuel tank is very large, so the identification features are relatively obvious. The new J -10 test aircraft only increased the straight back spine that extended to the tail wing backwards, and it looked a lot of capacity. Initially judged that this structure is mainly to accommodate a variety of new types of electronic equipment, of course, it may also increase hundreds of liters of fuel in the case of ensuring small resistance. There is also an interesting point. In order to increase the fuel loading capacity when my country improved the two -seater version of the Dragon Dragon, it even installed fuel in the vertical tail. If the J -10 can also load fuel inside the vertical tail, and the enlarged back, the amount of fuel increase may be as much as six or seven hundred liters, which is not small.

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Of course, another saying is that this is the J -10D electronic warfare aircraft prepared by my country. After increasing this back, more electronic warfare equipment can be placed. In fact, electronic warfare aircraft are generally developed on the basis of double -engine double -seated aircraft with relatively large flight weight and size. The most typical example is my country's J -16D and the United States' EA18G. There are 4 pilots used by the EA6D electronic warfare aircraft used by the United States. It can be seen that even if electronic technology has developed to this day, a single pilot performs flight attacks and the tasks of electronic equipment operations at the same time. Although the J -10 also has a double -seat version, after the second seat is increased, the volume of the fuel tank decreases, and the space for installing electronic equipment is also reduced. Therefore, the method of using a plug -in electronic pod must be used. In this way, unless the tanker cooperates, the performance of the light -type electronic warfare aircraft of the single -round double -seated version is still relatively limited. Others, at least the range and the time for the shortage will be significantly affected.

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Therefore, the probability of this aircraft is not a test for the J -10 fighter of the electronic war version. It is to verify that the verification machine installed more electronic equipment on the back of the aircraft. Type B, which is not too much. Considering that the F -ce 10CE fighter has been exported to Pakistan, and the improved results can also be used for subsequent export -type J -10 fighters.

In the end, the improvement potential of the J -10 fighter has almost been excavated to the limit, increasing the size of the fuselage, and even the increase in the number of engines and changing the stealth shape as many netizens said. my country once changed and out of a variety of aircraft on the basis of the J -7, but in the end, it was the normal version of the J -7, which is the air intake, not the jaw intake or even the machine similar to the J -10 machine. The abdomen is not as good as the aircraft, and the aircraft of the new architecture has an all -round advantage. Therefore, the probability of the J -10 will not reform any more, and the development of new aircraft is the most critical.

Therefore, when the fifth -generation fighter is not in service, the advanced four -generation and semi -fighter jets such as the J -10CE still have a very good export market. At present, my country also obviously plans the next step of the J -10 in the export market, and continues to write the legend of domestic fighters.

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