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

[00CuriousObserver]

He's guessing, from a maintenance point of view. Though as if the J-36 really cares about maintenance ease. There's three engines, at least two of which will be adaptive cycle engines. It's not like the J-36 are projected to be procured on a massive scale (based on projected costs) anyways. The maintenance folks will just have to deal with it nonetheless. They'll live.

No there was a comment (that might be deleted now) where he directly implies Ayi is wrong and is just speculating

 

[Alfa_Particle]

No there was a comment (that might be deleted now) where he directly implies Ayi is wrong and is just speculating

I wouldn't be so sure about whether or not Orca is the correct party in this case, nor the fact that he did directly imply anything. Would be helpful if you had records of said comment or at least how he worded it. In fact, what's to definitively say that he isn't the speculating one too?

Besides, no one suggested a radical difference. My guess right now is a hybrid electrified turbofan based on the other two engines that can "encourage" the compressors to keep turning and forcing air in during scenario with tricky airflows, like air from a dorsal intake during high AoA. It will have some parts incompatibility with the other two engines, but not so that it's an entirely different engine.

 

[00CuriousObserver]

I wouldn't be so sure about whether or not Orca is the correct party in this case, nor the fact that he did directly imply anything. Would be helpful if you had records of said comment or at least how he worded it. In fact, what's to definitively say that he isn't the speculating one too?

Besides, no one suggested a radical difference. My guess right now is a hybrid electrified turbofan based on the other two engines that can "encourage" the compressors to keep turning and forcing air in during scenario with tricky airflows, like air from a dorsal intake during high AoA. It will have some parts incompatibility with the other two engines, but not so that it's an entirely different engine.

Not sure why the comment was deleted, but someone said "Ayi is making up rumours", to which Orca responded with a friendly "well, we don't have definitive info and so he is allowed to speculate"

Either way, the point is to treat it with more uncertainty.