CHINA-PLA: EASTERN THEATRE COMMAND AIR FORCE BEGINS SWITCHING TO ADVANCED J-10C FIGHTER AIRCRAFT
Quoting the CCTV, Global Times (November 21) reported that the PLA Eastern Theatre Command is replacing old J-7 fighter jets with the advancedthe J-10Cs which, the Shanghai-based news website eastday.com said are equipped with the domestically developed WS-10 Taihang engines. It quoted Colonel Wang Hongbo, a pilot in a brigade with the Eastern Theater Command Air Force, as telling CCTV that the new aircraft has changed the way he perceives the battlefield. He said with the J-10C, the pilot needs to switch his role from just being a pilot to being a combatant, and added that since the old J-7 uses mechanical flight controls while the J-10C uses fly-by-wire, the new warplane allows the pilot to focus on the battlefield instead of on steering the aircraft.
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