The mod aims to provide mental exercises for strategy makers: with a high level of scaled*(see below) realism, realistic weaponry, realistic AI attacking and defensive strategy, and a relentlessly fast paced game play, the mod is for the past time of real generals! Highlights: 3 New Factions: China, Japan & Italy! 100+ new Units: Powerful Air Power: Pak-fa, F-22, Su-35BM, J-10B, F-15J, Eurofighter, Rafale & more are all at your command for Air-to Air Combat! Dominating Sea Power: Type 45, Arleigh Burke, Atago, FREMM-ER, Project 22350, Sejong The Great, Kilo, Lada, Soryu & Type 212, Type 214 are all at your dispose Devastating Area Denial Weapons: S-400, FD-2000, Mobile Patriot Launcher, SAMP-T, Type 12 ASM, & Bastion System, with their astonishing ranges, all are poised to give any attacker a devastating blow. 10+ new Buildings 4+ Innovative New Game play logic New Music Themes
J-10B is the latest variant of the prolific J-10 family, now constitutes the backbone of the Chinese Air Force.
The original J-10 has its root in the Israeli Lavi fighter, which features a canard design. Inherently unstable, the J-10 is a highly agile aircraft, in the mock air combat in the Chinese exercises, the J-10 can even match the fable Su-27 fighter in some aspects in a dog fight: The J-10 is quicker in instantaneous turns, making it very hard to match in the first 5-10 seconds after the merge, that is, after the two opposing fighters meet in air and start to turn and try to gain the tailing position of the opponent. The canards and light weight give the J-10 a high degree of maneuverability in the speed realm of trans-sonic and low super sonic speeds, giving it shooting opportunities in the start of a turn fight. However, due to the single engine design, the J-10 is less capable of replenishing its lost momentum in turning, and thus, after the first ten seconds, the larger, more powerful Su-27 series aircraft would start to gain a kinematic advantage.
The J-10B is a major evolutionary step in the development of the J-10 aircraft. Its design revisions also addressed the issues of its major weakness: the insufficient thrust, and thus thrust-to-weight ratio(which made its lost momentum harder to be regained in the previous scenario) The solution was to make a lighter, more efficient air intake, the Bump design, featuring a bump to separate the boundary layer of turbulent air flows from the engine. The design is expected to boost engine performance under mach 2. The higher thrust and the lesser weight constitute s major advantage in increasing the thrust-to-weight ratio of the J-10B, and thus increasing its odds of winning against more powerful twin engine fighters. The other major step made by the J-10B is its electronic scanning AESA radar, which increases the radar detection range, targeting tracking number, refresh rate, and terrain mapping capabilities.
You can view it (and all previous models!)in 360 degree if you push the "HD View" Button.
(The model is modified from andrewmarley's J-10B/C)