China news agency, Beijing, March 23 (Reporter Zhou Yin) China Aviation Industry Corporation (China Aviation Industry) disclosed that March 23, 2018 is the 20th anniversary of the successful first flight of China’s first third-generation fighter with completely independent intellectual property rights.
March 23, 1998 was an exciting day for aviation people. In the eyes of longing and expectation, 01 prototype J-10 aircraft spread its wings and made its first flight successfully.
According to the relevant person in charge of aviation industry in China, after the first flight of the J-10 aircraft was successful, the relevant institutions put forward the plan of "speeding up the test flight and speeding up the finalization" and the decision of "leading the trial" of the troops. The development team made persistent efforts and devoted themselves to the follow-up development work. The test flight of the J-10 aircraft has adopted the test flight technology that has never been used before, and carried out the test flight subjects that have never been carried out before. During the test flight, China Air Force test pilots, represented by Lei Qiang and Li Zhonghua, pushed the flight envelope of the J-10 aircraft to an unprecedented boundary with exquisite test flight technology, which set a record for three generations of international aircraft not to crash during the test flight and promoted the process of aircraft finalization. With the hard work of the development team, it created a precedent for the finalization and batch equipment of troops in that year.
After the design of the J-10 aircraft was finalized and equipped with troops, according to the continuous development of equipment demand and military reform, the J-10 aircraft two-seat combat/trainer and J-10A aircraft were developed successively, and the China army was equipped quickly; The improved J-10B aircraft shows strong air and surface attack capability. Performance has also become the third representative aircraft of China Air Force Air Show Brigade.
The J-10 series aircraft participated in many major events and large-scale military exercises. Implement multi-aircraft formation, multiple aerial refueling, continuous cruising, and sail to the South China Sea to perform patrol alert tasks. At Zhuhai International Air Show, the J-10 series aircraft competed with foreign advanced aircraft on the same stage, boasting in the sky, showing the elegance of China Air Force. In the "Peace Mission" multinational military exercise, the J-10 aircraft fought in formation with other aircraft, demonstrating the joint operational capability of China Air Force with multinational and multi-aircraft groups. In 2013, the J-10 performance machine flew abroad for the first time to participate in the Moscow International Air Show, which strengthened the national prestige and military prestige.
The successful development of the J-10 series aircraft has achieved a leap from introduction, digestion and absorption, modified development to independent research and development, which has raised the technical level and manufacturing capacity of China’s aviation industry to a new level, promoted the development and progress of China’s national defense industry and its related industries, greatly enhanced the overall strength of the national defense science and technology industry, and is of great significance to consolidating national defense and safeguarding national security and territorial integrity.
The person in charge said that the successful development of the J-10 series aircraft has enabled China Air Force’s main battle weapons and equipment to leap from the second generation to the third generation, made China Air Force’s equipment level step into the ranks of advanced countries in the world, greatly shortened the gap with foreign countries, and upgraded the industrial base, consolidated technical reserves, trained innovative talents, accumulated management experience and accumulated late-comer strength for the fourth-generation aircraft research and development. (End)
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