From Failure to Foundation – China’s J-11D Changed EVERYTHING
Автор: Quantum Arsenal
Загружено: 2025-10-19
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The boneyard of military aviation is filled with ambitious prototypes that never reached production, cautionary tales of technological overreach. The Shenyang J-11D, with only two examples built before vanishing from public view, seems a perfect fit for this category. But to label it a failure is to fundamentally misunderstand its purpose. The J-11D was not a failed aircraft; it was a brilliantly successful technology demonstrator. Its mission was not to fill squadrons, but to serve as a high-stakes crucible for the advanced systems—the AESA radar, the composite airframe, the next-generation avionics—that would be harvested and transfused into China's modern air fleet. Its cancellation was not an admission of defeat, but the final step in a targeted technology raid, a strategic success disguised as a production failure.
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