China, J-35 carrier-borne Fighter, should be no longer called FC-31

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China, J-35 carrier-borne Fighter, should be no longer called FC-31 #5320

Closed Luigi-II closed 5 days ago

Luigi-II commented 2 weeks ago

DB Selector

DB3K

Affected DBID(s)

Aircraft 4454

Summary of Changes

[ ] Rename it as J-35 and remove all the supplement

Sources

J-35A is the official code name of its Air Force version.

Jkryos commented 2 weeks ago

So looking at the navalized version on debut in 2022 and the one at Zhuhai '24 there are some minor changes still. I think it might be best to keep the carrier capable one as FC-31 and make a new entry for J-35A to distinguish between the flying protype and the full in service version.

Luigi-II commented 1 week ago

@Jkryos The AVIC officially call it J-35: https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/t/j-35-carrier-fighter-plan-thread.8173/page-315

Jkryos commented 5 days ago

Thats good enough for me. Updated DB3K 510.