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If the WS-15 ends up being serviceable in 6 more years, it will have taken SARI and Xi'an almost 35 years to re-create something marginally better than the curr
by greedo 6y ago
If the WS-15 ends up being serviceable in 6 more years, it will have taken SARI and Xi'an almost 35 years to re-create something marginally better than the current Russian engines, and no where near what the US is delivered routinely by PW and GE. Chinese engines can't approach the thrust of Western engines, nor the reliability.
So say they iron out the kinks in the WS-15 (though odds are they'll settle for the WS-10). They then have a roughly 1990s era engine, when the US will be deploying Adaptive Cycle Engines etc.
- sudosysgen 6y agoSure, but this always how it works. The first high-quality engine will take 35 years, the next 15. The important thing here is to develop the capability to manufacture high-quality single crystal components. As far as adaptive cycle engines, China is also already researching them. They also have a lead in supersonic combustion as of today.