What's the benefit of putting intakes above the wing/fuselage (like in H-20 or B-2)? Is it to make extra room for the weapons bay?
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For a bomber it also makes it stealthier against ground based radars. Of course the down side to this arrangement is that at high AOA the engines get choked.
Per my calculation - which may be off - I come to almost exactly the same number. It all depends on how many were built as Batch 5, 6 & 7 which per my estimation was smaller (only 20 ac.) in comparison to the other ones with usually 40 ac. Batch 2 - aka the 1st C-Batch - was the largest with maybe u to 80 and now Batch 8 again seems to be larger.
Do we know whether or not if the PLAAF already surpassed the USN in terms of aircraft inventory?
Surely you jest. How many 5th gens does the USN even have?
China probably has close to 300 J-20s and the USN has like 30 F-35Cs.
China has more J-10s than the USN has aircraft. And that is just one of their operational aircraft types.
You only start getting into problems when you consider USAF + USN + Japan + South Korea, etc.
China probably has close to 300 J-20s and the USN has like 30 F-35Cs.
China has more J-10s than the USN has aircraft. And that is just one of their operational aircraft types.
You only start getting into problems when you consider USAF + USN + Japan + South Korea, etc.
Sure. But the Marines operate either the regular Hornet, which is totally obsolete, or the F-35B. Which has a severely reduced payload because of the VTOL launching method. I will ignore the Harrier because that is a dinosaur which properly belongs in a museum.
I did a little Google search and USN came up with 4012 aircrafts though...?
Am I misunderstanding something?
Edit: 273 F-35Cs also. I can understand that China has more 5th Gen fighters but I'm a bit confused.
If you are asking how the PLAAF compares with USN, which aircraft types are you talking about, or are you talking about all aircraft types overall. For example a big part of the USN's aircraft fleet are helicopters, which of course fill a very important role and many of them are capable, but we aren't exactly comparing like with like here.
In terms of F-35Cs, the USN has only a few dozen in service/delivered.
The USN has plans to buy 273 F-35Cs.
Where are you reading?
If you are comparing J-10 count with total USN aircraft fleet size, that isn't quite accurate; J-10s are probably approaching 600 in count, while the USN's total aircraft fleet size across all types of "aircraft" certainly is very numerous, well in excess of 2000. You can nearly double that if you include USMC aviation.
But that's counting everything -- fighters, helicopters, MPAs, cargo, trainers, etc
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