Nato Reporting name on Chinese equipment

[macelena 1,070]

At first i thought that it was because after the Cold War their use was put down, but then the Su-47 was codenamed "Frikin", and the AA-12 became the "Adder", and so on. However, while there used to be a Nato reporting name for Chinese aircraft (Fantan, Finback and Flounder) some aircraft remain (to my knowledge) unnamed in such jargon, such as the J-10, JF-17, while already operative. Do you know of any name they may have got or any reason, wether being politically nice or something, why the NATO wouldn´t assign them a reporting name?

 

 

[Guest rscsjsuso5]

the j-10 = Vigorous Dragon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu_J-10 western nations call it and thus eventually nato will too

 

the j-11 = flanker chinese version of russian su-27 etc no nato name just flanker but in chinese it is JianJi-11 a Annihilator (Interceptor) - 11 air superiority fighter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenyang_J-11

 

the fc-1 for chn and jf-17 for pak = Fierce Dragon fc=fighter china and jf=joint fighter eventually nato will use fierce dragon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JF-17_Thunder

 

just some info enjoy.

[JediMaster 451]

That won't be because fighters always get names starting with F, bombers with a B, helos with an H, and so on. It does seem the J-10 just gets called "J-10" a lot, though.

[+Gepard 11,356]

The NATO reporting names were launched because the original soviet designation of weapons was very often not known. If the type name of weapons were well known the NATO reporting names were not widely used. For example: the NATO reporting name of the T-72 tank was Tiger, but nobody used it.

I think it is the same with the J-10. i guess it has a NATO reporting name, but this name is widely unkown.