{"id":476240,"date":"2026-05-31T14:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T14:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/476240\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T14:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T14:57:08","slug":"how-chinas-home-grown-ws-10-engine-helped-make-the-country-a-modern-air-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/476240\/","title":{"rendered":"How China\u2019s home-grown WS-10 engine helped make the country a modern air power"},"content":{"rendered":"

As China marks the 20th anniversary of completing its first domestically developed high-thrust turbofan engine for fighter jets, the WS-10 \u2013 Woshan-10, meaning Turbofan-10 \u2013 continues its crucial role in the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The WS-10 turbofan engine was code-named Taihang after the famous Chinese mountain range.<\/p>\n

The Taihang engine family serves as the backbone of the PLA\u2019s major active combat fighters, powering fourth-generation jets such as the J-10C, the J-11B, the air force\u2019s J-16 and the navy\u2019s carrier-based J-15. It has also played a vital role for variants of the fifth-generation J-20 stealth fighter.<\/p>\n

In addition, the WS-10 drives China\u2019s export-oriented jets, including the J-10CE.<\/p>\n

A historic milestone for China\u2019s aviation industry, the WS-10 series represented a major success in self-sufficiency, laying the groundwork for phasing out dependence on Russian engine imports for its frontline fighter fleet.<\/p>\n

Before the maturation of the Taihang engine, production of China\u2019s modern fighters \u2013 such as the J-11, J-16 and even the early J-20 \u2013 was entirely dependent upon Russia\u2019s AL-31 production capacity and export licensing, creating a significant and dangerous supply-chain bottleneck.<\/p>\n

The maturation of the WS-10 enables unconstrained, mass-scale production of various types of advanced fourth and fifth-generation combat aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As China marks the 20th anniversary of completing its first domestically developed high-thrust turbofan engine for fighter jets,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[205422,205414,114,97538,205415,61,60,205417,205418,205419,205420,205424,205425,3589,205416,205423,80,205421],"class_list":["post-476240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-al-31f","tag-aviation-industry-corporation-of-china","tag-china","tag-deng-xiaoping","tag-f110","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-j-10","tag-j-11b","tag-j-15","tag-j-16","tag-j-20","tag-peoples-liberation-army","tag-russia","tag-shenyang-aeroengine-research-institute","tag-taihang","tag-technology","tag-ws-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}