Chinese Engine Development

qwerty3173 · Tuesday at 12:11 AM

Could be something like the SR-71 engine, relegating more air to be bypassed and burned in the ramjet-like afterburner.

latenlazy · Tuesday at 12:16 AM

Tomboy said:
What would even be the use case for this, M2+ supercruise for something? Wouldn't modern high speed recon aircraft use TBCC instead.

Who knows. Shouldn’t speculate with so little information. My only point was 0.8 is not a prohibitive BPR.

ficker22 · Tuesday at 12:19 AM

BoraTas said:
Exhaust temperature. They wanted this thing to be cool. They are probably entertaining turbofans for supersonic but VLO recon aircraft.

Due to high altitude and material limits or more from a fuel efficiency/ low IR emission side?

BoraTas · Tuesday at 12:22 AM

ficker22 said:
Due to high altitude and material limits or more from a fuel efficiency/ low IR emission side?

Low IR emission