I mean it makes sense, it's bigger than current fighters and current fighters are the size of WW2 medium bombers like B-26. So yeah they're all pretty big and the flying wing design means lots of internal volume.
Chengdu next gen combat aircraft (?J-36) thread
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No, but again … IMO it could be one but at the moment it is not transparent!
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It looks pretty good and modern now that there's a closer shot with no computer enhancements. Some of those early shots were not pretty. It looked like the surface was all crumpled and the DSI hump was too large. We need a frontal shot like with the J-20 when the wall climbers were at the start of the runway. The J-20 looked like a beast from that angle coming in for a landing.
Probably looks like Darth Vader’s helmet from the front.
Denying yourself is harmful to your helth and you might end up with OCD problems. Remember that thing called 'coating'?
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I understand your reservations, but it might be misguided to expect it to "look transparent". 5th Gen EOTS are "hanging" from the chin so to speak, so viewed from the side you can more or less see through the EOTS module.
The one on J-36's chine cannot be see through from the side, being embedded the side aspect will be "blocked in".
It will only be see through from the top-down aspect. Coatings might be applied to make it less transparent.
Speaking of alternatives, I saw a post by foolsball comparing the apertures to a snakes "infrared vision". 2 partially overlapping infrared sensors could be used to overcome the depth/vector shortcomings of a single IRST setup.
In 2009 I and one of my local friend went to CAC and the famous Huangtianba Airstrip, back then it was indeed a middle of nowhere and a very typical Sichuan suburb: fields around and nothing else. Along the runway it was a country lane only walled by a fence, you can definitely see through it and spot the aircraft. I think we spotted the J-10B prototype. Along the lane there were some 2 or 3-floor country tea houses, you actually can pay and go upstairs and sit back spotting planes and enjoy the day. I'm not sure if these places still exists.
How time flies.
here's my much needed very critical indepth analysis:
THANK GOD THE CANOPY DOESN'T LOOK FUGLY LIKE PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT
THANK GOD THE CANOPY DOESN'T LOOK FUGLY LIKE PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT
looks like a dorito trying to find its dip