Chengdu next gen combat aircraft (?J-36) thread

[Ringsword]

That’s what I want to happen — four generations of fighter aircraft simultaneously in service.

greatgrandfather,grandfather,father,son-all living under the same roof-a blessing with the son(s) being so loved,talented,advanced and gifted-a world beater

 

[OptimusLion]

The J-36 fuel dumping procedure from two different perspectives

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[valysre]

refueling

fuel-dump, not refueling.

 

[Pyrokhaki]

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landing gear retracted, without BGM, if anyone want it.

 

[AndrewJ]

The music was a little excessive but man I am stunned by how quickly it's hitting so many test points.

Either they have more than one prototype currently flying (which I don't think so because we've only seen 36011) or they feel so comfortable with this prototype that they think they can hit many test points without needing that much post-flight maintenance and down time to analyze this jet.

PLA might be fielding 6th gen fighter jets before they even fully retire all their 3rd gen aircraft.

I think this is the case. The fast turnover on flights suggests that nothing in particular is requiring the team to sit down and work out big issues for a prolonged period of time, and that no behavior is being exhibited in testing so far that contradicts what is already expected from simulation and modelling.

Sun Cong (孙聪, AVIC deputy designer & J35's chief designer) said on a previous lecture, "Current jets' design-manufacture loop is too long. Can we produce jets like phones? This is our dream for future". They may have improved jets' design-manufacture loop, to achieve quick design, quick test, quick manufacture, quick commission. Especially given J-36 as 6th gen, all new tech should be considered to use on it first.

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[AndrewJ]

Flying so low.

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[valysre]

They may have improved jets' design-manufacture loop, to achieve quick design, quick test, quick manufacture, quick commission.

I may be badly misremembering, but I remember some bits about computational modelling in this forum, specifically in regards to R&D. Perhaps has been applied here to streamline the process?

How long after first sighting of J-20 did it take to see a flight without the nose pitot tube?

 

[pokepara]

Sun Cong (孙聪, AVIC deputy designer & J35's chief designer) said on a previous lecture, "Current jets' design-manufacture loop is too long. Can we produce jets like phones? This is our dream for future". They may have improved jets' design-manufacture loop, to achieve quick design, quick test, quick manufacture, quick commission. Especially given J-36 as 6th gen, all new tech should be considered to use on it first.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you mean by "new tech", but you would isolate your new technology and test it on mature platforms rather than trying to integrate it on a foundation that you haven't tested thoroughly yet.

I would imagine we'd see these production enhancements on the J-20 and J-35 first.

 

[Alfa_Particle]

Trijet fighter. Never thought in my life I would've seen one.

 

[by78]

High-resolution versions of previously shared images.