They didn’t feel that it was safe enough to not have HUD as a fallback in case something went wrong.
Shenyang next gen combat aircraft thread
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This two photos made my day.
I wonder if we can ever get a more up close look of the intake. What is that btw? I have never seen anything like that on a stealth aircraft IIRC.
Give where the testing program is now, I'd be shocked if it doesn't enter service before J-36.
Looks extremely stealthy btw.
I just wouldn't worry about sensor installations at this point.
Oh hell not the intake, that's another man's 20+ years in a tea room
it is certainly very original looking, it's got characteristics of chin, caret, and dsi inlets. this appears to be a truly organic solution that seems well tailored to the rest of the aircraft's aerodynamic features.
I would not be so confident that J-XDS definitively lacks a HUD at the moment. Based on the angles of the photo, it is possible that the internal canopy frame is obscuring a low profile/thin HUD.
I have this, but I am not sure if there is a higher resolution version floating around or not
In both angles we can see the dark spot within the chin EO IRST which is indicative of the sensor itself.
In the second image we can see parts of the frame/housing but it is distinctively quite thin/low profile.
So chances are in the first image, the frame and housing is still there, but it is quite thin and due to the distance, makes it look "transparent".
All of which is to say, the EO IRST housing isn't very suspicious to me, and looks quite reasonable overall.
I think the chin EO IRST is present.
The fact it looks "transparent" in the first photo is just because the housing of the sensor is so thin and the photo was taken at such long distances.
We can see the housing fairly distinctively in the second photo, and in both photos we can see the actual dark spot indicative of the internal EO IRST sensor itself.
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Overall the new pictures are definitely a deviation from the existing airframe we've seen in past months.
It's either a new prototype airframe or it is the same first prototype airframe but significantly modified.
The most obvious differences of course being the removal of the pitot tube, and the replacement of the mockup EOIRST sensor with what is likely a representative or actual real EO IRST sensor+housing.
A flying wing/diamond-like shape and no extra control surfaces such as vertical stabilizers. This thing will be extremely stealthy, outright lethal to any air defense system.
Most Chinese intel runs off of being super focused on obvious pinpoints of foreign lovin', obviously most of these photographers aren't that focused on, considering most of them LOVE China.
Found this. Anyone know where it's from?
