Love the side-by-side seating.高山CG has also updated his CG, but his ones too lacks the gaps / indentation between the engines!
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This is official or fan made?A configuration for S-duct inlet - notice it's a side-by-side twin seater in the picture.
This is official or fan made?
Key design details from Wang Haifeng's paper:我已经有一段时间没有阅读 SDF 了,所以我不知道这是否是公众知识。 BUAA 的链接对我来说非常慢。有一个不同的下载链接(如果您居住在中国境外)可以更快地访问:
Key design details from Wang Haifeng's paper:
- By simultaneously adopting adaptive variable cycle engines and variable geometry air intake designs, the aircraft can achieve much fewer spill drag under different operating conditions at various flight stages, including takeoff, subsonic cruise, transonic, and supersonic cruise. This allows much better high-speed performance, reduces fuel consumption, and extends range.
- Significant rear radar and infrared stealth capabilities can be achieved through integrated intake/engine fan, integrated engine air bleed/cooling, TVC nozzles, integrated afterburner combustion chambers, and S-shaped nozzles. (5th gen has poor rear infrared stealth performance.)
- Active infrared suppression measures for end-game countermeasures against infrared-guided missiles are implemented through the injection of cold media on the engine's tailpipe hot surfaces and the use of aerosol jet injection.
- Engine design is coordinated with the overall fighter aircraft design during the entire design process, optimizing both thrust and infrared stealth characteristics, with repeated checks at each design phase to ensure infrared stealth targets are met.
- A flexible thermal management system to balance thermal peaks and valleys. Duct air has fewer design limitations for heat dissipation systems, allowing for lighter and more compact duct radiators.
AVCE is coming out in 2~3 years.There was a pretty old interview of Chengdu's Yang Wei:
He mentioned some core components will be used for the first time in the next gen fighter:
Anyone has more details? I don't expect China's ACE engine to be ready yet, for example.
- Terahertz (THz) radar
- AI system
- Adaptive Variable Cycle Engine
- Wing changing shapes (I guess this means flexible wing material)
Is the THz radar actually feasible? Or, that was what's inside the large window on the chin? My understanding is THz is basically IR, which does not have a very long range.