TYPE: Advanced jet trainer/light attack jet
PROGRAMME: Revealed as feasibility study at Aviation Expo 2001, Beijing, September 2001.
DESIGN FEATURES: Shoulder-mounted wings with curved, leading-edge wingroot strakes; tandem cockpits; twin engines; single vertical fin well forward of slab tailplane.
FLYING CONTROLS: Assumed fly-by-wire.
POWER PLANT: Twin turbofans; possibly NMKB Progress AI-25s or domestic WS11s.
ACCOMMODATION: Two zero/zero ejection seats in tandem.
AVIONICS: HOTAS controls, HUD(s) and MFDs; stores management system.
| DIMENSIONS, EXTERNAL: | |
| Wing span | 11 m (36 ft) |
| Length overall | 15 m (49 ft) |
| WEIGHTS AND LOADINGS: | |
| Normal T-O weight, clean | 6,500 kg (14,330 lb) |
| Max T-O weight | 9,500 kg (20,950 lb) |
| PERFORMANCE: | |
| Max level speed | M1.4 |
| Max rate of climb at S/L | 9,000 m (29,530 ft)/min |
| Service ceiling | 16,000 m (52,490 ft) |
| g limits | +8/-3 |
