China Flanker Thread III (land based, exclude J-15)
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Maybe a stupid question I stumbled across, but what is the exact total length of a J-16?
If you check different internet sites, you most often find exactly the same length like a Su-30MKK aka 21.935m (21.94m) ... the Su-30MKK however has the old Flanker's usual pitot, so the J-16 must be IMO clearly a bit shorter!
Or is this length 21.94m always given as length without pitot?
If you check different internet sites, you most often find exactly the same length like a Su-30MKK aka 21.935m (21.94m) ... the Su-30MKK however has the old Flanker's usual pitot, so the J-16 must be IMO clearly a bit shorter!
Or is this length 21.94m always given as length without pitot?
It should be the same length as J-11BS.
These aren't the same pods that they were carrying at the Zhuhai Air show right?
Shame it has to come from this account. Twitter occasionally recs new accounts such as this, and the "analysis" from this account is not good. E.g., This guy misidentified a JF-17 as an F-16, with the justification just being various F-16 design features on Wikipedia, essentially just OSINT "LARP" for blue check money. Not everyone can use Weibo though, so this is the compromise.
There is likely another unmodified version somewhere though from the original source.
It's a family of pods(appears to be 3x, each in left and right versions). So yes, it's zhuhai pod, one of them to be exact?
Btw I wonder what's the point of such carriage, it's half-blinded by the nacelles.
Russian centerline escort jammers sit on one hell of a pylon to move it out of shadow.