I didn't mean it will fly like a bomber because I do know what you said from the first flight. I mean high angle of attack is still pretty achieveable on many fighters, so though a slat (if correct) was not unexpected in my opinion, I will still be curious to see such a plane doing such maneuvering, imaging this chasing 'small' fighters like a J10 will make things pretty funny.
*I mean high angle of attack is still pretty achieveable on many fighters without slats
As amateurs, I really appreciate the exciting maneuvers of these tens of tons of man-made machinery at tens of thousands of feet, but it seems that the era of knight war has passed a long time ago. If faced with 3-5 high-power AESA radars at different angles at the same time, the only option for these low-observable fighters should be to leave immediately. It is difficult to imagine that these high-value fighter jets need to perform a high-risk over-stall maneuver to expose all angles of themselves to the opponent. This may even cause them to be accidentally damaged by long-range air-to-air missiles launched by their own teammates.
Although it is a good spirit to always be ready to defend the country. But now as a giant industrial country, we really shouldn’t worry about this problem. China is about 30 times the size of Vietnam and can produce almost all minerals and industrial products. As long as the Chinese are unwilling to admit defeat, this war will continue until it is unbearable for anyone. And it will not be like the Vietnam War. No country that participates in attacking China has the right to unilaterally withdraw from the war, and at the same time, it will suffer the consequences of retaliation.
Its not that simple. This is not like a turbocharger where you fix the problem with a blow-off valve. Going from providing sufficient airflow to the compressor to suddenly sucking the air right out of the compressor stages while they are still rotating, has the potential to destroy the engine. Since the engine is sitting inside the fuselage instead of being mounted to a nacelle, you really don't want it to blow up.
Of course it won't be likely to happen, so I just mean imaging some stupid things, don't take my words too serious. But as long as CAC keeps some high maneuverability on J36, it will never be boring——I think you can understand that.
This isn’t just an issue for a top inlet and should be a pretty standard part of any engine’s operational control system.
Bleeds to manage the pressure inside the inlet is one of many common standard solutions to these sorts of problems. This is one of those things where the available solutions are all well known enough that the default assumption should be "they know what they're doing". I'd argue if this design wasn't meant to do higher alpha maneuvers they would have just stuck with top inlets for all the engines. They went through the trouble for a reason.
