JF-17 Thunder Discussions

[OfficerAMR]

Will the JF-17 be able to use the AIM-9, or only Chinese AAM's?

[sniperwolfpk5]

Can use Aim-9 M and L.

[carss]

Can use Aim-9 M and L.

 

No way, I don't think they are nor have I ever seen any of them being able to use or be armed with Aim-9s or any American missiles. It would be Chinese or at most Russian missiles

[F900EX]

You guys asking the same question about a release date and in another post it's been answered.

 

"We're planning to launch our early access product in summer 2019 if nothing goes wrong"

[Satarosa]

+1

 

@uboats

 

We have JF-17 with chinese and Pakistan skin? (It's for REAL WAR planning)??

 

When do you release the JF-17, I ear the end of 2019??

 

What's about the skin please ?

[shagrat]

What's about the skin please ?

It's the skin for the two countries that have the JF-17 in their inventory, if I remember correctly. US and Russia skins wouldn't really make sense, don't you think? ;)

[CodenameSection]

PLAAF doesn't operate JF-17s but Deka does plan to include some fictional skins for it (alongside USAF & Russian Air Force ones) based on this post from 2017.

[shagrat]

PLAAF doesn't operate JF-17s but Deka does plan to include some fictional skins for it (alongside USAF & Russian Air Force ones) based on this post from 2017.

The Chinese produce it under its original designation, as the Chengdu FC-1... the JF-17 is the pakistani designation of the export version. So we may have some small differences in specific systems and maybe weapon access to Chinese weapons. ;)

EDIT: you are correct, the Chinese air force does not fly it themselves...

Edited April 24, 2019 by shagrat

[TLTeo]

No way, I don't think they are nor have I ever seen any of them being able to use or be armed with Aim-9s or any American missiles. It would be Chinese or at most Russian missiles

 

 

Eh, the Pakistani Air Force flies Vipers so I wouldn't be surprised if they integrated the AIM-9 in the JF-17 too.

[carss]

Eh, the Pakistani Air Force flies Vipers so I wouldn't be surprised if they integrated the AIM-9 in the JF-17 too.

 

They can't just freely integrate an American missile onto a Chinese or Russian platform like that. Doing so would mean huge consequences like confiscation of weapons and other stuff. They would require permission from both supplying countries to make it happen

[ShadowFrost]

They can't just freely integrate an American missile onto a Chinese or Russian platform like that. Doing so would mean huge consequences like confiscation of weapons and other stuff. They would require permission from both supplying countries to make it happen

Supposedly the JF-17 system architecture has no problem integrating various weapons. And on WIKI (I know extremely reliable) it says they can carry them. But I think for Pakistan/any operator it would come down to if there is really a benefit worth the effort of enabling the aim-9s on the aircraft. Due to maintenance, spares, and whatever complications that would come from such an action.

[sniperwolfpk5]

Well Pakistani F-7PG which is using aim-9 and it is chines (Chengdu J-7) but I agree, one needs permission to operate and integrate.

[Satarosa]

Radar Infos

 

 

What's about the radar ingame spec ?

[GGTharos]

You're getting the MSA radar AFAIK. That would be the 80km one.

[Satarosa]

KLJ radar?

 

JF-17 Block I is KLJ-7 radar (2002):

 

Manufacturer: NRIET (Nanjing Research Institute of Electronic Technology)

Détection Range 4m2: ~80km

Type: MSA

Targets tracked: 10

Targets engaged simultaneously: 2

Frequency: X band

Max Horizontal detection angle: -..°/+..° <...° ?

Max Vertical detection angle: -..°/+..° <...° ?

 

Features:

 

Guidance for medium/long range missiles.

All waveform design.

Air/air, Air/ground, air/sea and navigation functions.

Compact structure.

Parasitic IFF antena on radar anetnna array.

Low sidelobe slotted plane array antenna technique.

High-speed parallel digitial signal processing.

14 Operational Modes:

 

Range While Search (RWS)

Velocity Search (VS)

Single Target Track (STT)

Track While Scan (TWS)

Dual Target Track (DTT)

Situational Awareness Mode (SAM)

Air Combat Mode (ACM)(with five sub-modes)

Real Beam Map (RBM)

Doppler Beam Sharpening (DBS)

Ground Moving Target Indication/Ground Moving Target Track (GMTI/GMTT)

Air to Ground Ranging (AGR)

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

Sea Single Target Track (SSTT)

Beacon (BCN)

[AeriaGloria]

Not very powerful but a slotted planar array with lots of modes! Excited

[Schmidtfire]

Any info on LS-6 PBG variants we get with JF-17? And will it be possible to double or tripple rack them on a single pylon?

 

From what I can find there are several different variants:

 

500kg

250kg

100kg

50kg

 

The LS-6 100kg is quite close to the GBU-39/SDB in terms of weight. A bit lighter.

[uboats]

Any info on LS-6 PBG variants we get with JF-17? And will it be possible to double or tripple rack them on a single pylon?

 

From what I can find there are several different variants:

 

500kg

250kg

100kg

50kg

 

The LS-6 100kg is quite close to the GBU-39/SDB in terms of weight. A bit lighter.

 

now we only add LS-6 500KG, so no dual rack for it.

[Satarosa]

now we only add LS-6 500KG, so no dual rack for it.

 

@uboats could you please give some new about the Jf-17 ?

[uboats]

later we will summarize our current progress and share some details of development

[toilet2000]

later we will summarize our current progress and share some details of development

 

Can't wait for that! :)

[TaxDollarsAtWork]

So it will have a MAWS but no DIRCM?

 

Also curious if maybe the Block 3 gets a DIRCM

[Satarosa]

CAN

 

NOT

 

WAIT

 

!!!

[Schmidtfire]

Hope to hear more news soon! :)

[ShadowFrost]

What does the JF17 RWR display look like?