J-11 Cancelled (Shenyang)
The J-11 designation was originally applied to Shenyang Aircraft Factory design responding to a 1968 PLAAF requirement for a replacement for the J-6 (MiG-19 Farmer). Nanchang Aircraft Factory proposed the J-12 to this requirement. The Shenyang proposal was powered by one British Spey-512 afterburning turbofan engine and followed a conventional light fighter design with swept back wings and fuselage-side mounted inlets. The J-11 was a sophisticated design for its time, but the British Spey-512 engines would have been "difficult" for Communist China to obtain at that time. The Shenyang factory was ordered to concentrate its energies on the J-8, and the J-11 never went further than the blueprint stage.
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