Chinese UCAV/CCA/flying wing drones (ISR, A2A, A2G) thread

[dasCKD]

Does this affect stealth with the engine out like that I notice that on j20 also
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Those serrations are a measure to direct creeping waves away from the direction of the incoming radar during head-on approach. When the radar coming in from roughly head on and hits the serration they'd deflect away from the front angle. I'll have to see if I can find the diagram for it, there was a really good one I saw here on SDF.

Yeah, the designations are a mess. Did the parade announcer call out any sort of names for systems when they would pass by? I am not asking just for drones, but all the systems shown at the parade?

We can name them. I want to call the long, pointy tailless drone Yanfei because it reminds me of her hat, kind of. I'm also going to name the big laser truck Zhongli because it looks like his pillar.

 

[AsuraGodFiend]

The more I look at 2 these large drones on the parade the more I convince they are not mockups only thing is the is the eots on that one the shows it's either covered or not installed like the j35a eots

 

[ougoah]

Does this affect stealth with the engine out like that I notice that on j20 also
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Ideally you'd have F-22 like nozzles to enhance all aspect stealth. Or whatever is on the J-36 and J-50.

Doing it like this does erode your all aspect stealth from pretty much most angles except frontal.

The thing is to balance cost and production rate with performance. Making it with whatever nozzle design that is used by other afterburning, all aspect ULO stealth aircraft like J-36 and J-50 may add some advantages but might have been considered not worth all the additional cost and complexity of manufacturing. These unmanned fighters are going to be produced at a much cheaper cost and at a faster pace than the J-20 and J-35. This method also allows you to just use an off the shelf ready WS-10x engine without much modification.

 

[CVNisCV]

 

[Nx4eu]

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The Nozzle petals on the lambda wing CCA seems to be much shorter than the ones present on the delta wing CCA. Perhaps the Delta uses a WS-10C2, while the lambda uses a WS-10C.

 

[bsdnf]

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[Tomboy]

The Nozzle petals on the lambda wing CCA seems to be much shorter than the ones present on the delta wing CCA. Perhaps the Delta uses a WS-10C2, while the lambda uses a WS-10C.

IDK, why the different engines. Perhaps different operating environment, like one naval one airforce?

 

[Deino]

Written on the airframe

No, the other one has no. 22 so it is then a GJ-22? These are bort numbers.

 

[no_name]

Type 076 gonna have a lot of new toys for her air complement.

 

[Nx4eu]

IDK, why the different engines. Perhaps different operating environment, like one naval one airforce?

Likely just that the delta is larger and therefore needed more thrust than the lambda.