China modifies Russian Salyut engine

摘要

The Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) has developed its own service life extension modifications for the Russian-made Salyut AL-31F engine, a Moscow-based defence and foreign policy think-tank has reported.rnThe modifications to the AL-31F/FM P.2 series engine increase its operational limits by more than 65 percent-from 900 to 1,500 flight hours, according to the privately owned Centre for the Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST).