Ideal naval carrier fighter(aircraft) designs.

Awesome, it looks great in 3D,. Almost exactly I'll post on the thread there also.

Here's a render based on the excellent model with minor adjustments to better fit what's in my head.

Although this fighter would not be best suited to an aircraft carrier due to its lack of wing fold, it's such a cool design I think I'll stick with it as my final idea.

It has sufficient internal volume for a good fuel load plus a large internal weapons bay. It has excellent agility features, good lift charactristics and dashing good looks. And has a resemblence to contemporary Chinese thinking to boot!

More of a strike fighter.....

Its really looking good. I sure like to see it on a more detailed render with proper lighting and textures added.

crobato said:

Its really looking good. I sure like to see it on a more detailed render with proper lighting and textures added.

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lol, it's MS Paint, not 3D.

these are some new ideal pic for chinese carrier aircraft:

The best ones yet I am putting these pics as my wallpaper cool thanks maozedong

This is what I made of Planemans design in blender on short notice.
Refinement help is apreciated.

Cool. I'm honoured

I was thinking of having the intakes on the bottom and a more pointy tail but i don't know if you'd want to change something as cute as what you've built.

For a totally new design, one should also consider variable
geometry similar to F-14.

A carrier aircraft need:
1. low landing speed for lower deck requirement & safety.
2. long loiter time for combat air patrol
3. long range for strike
4. high speed dash for interception.

all of which variable geometry is optimal.

Note F-14 does not need an wing folding mechanism
because the variable geometry already served this function.

The minus is additional maintance requirement. However, nowadays, this can be done cheaper by replacing the hydrolics with electrical actuator. F-35 uses self contained electro-hydrolic actuators which improves maintainablity and saves weight.

I don't really think the VG design of the Tomcats will come back again, it's too complex and many contemporary/coming aircraft can operate without it.

Planeman, I couldn't come online for 2 days because my I-Net worked very slow, so I refined it first with the inlets on top style, the second has them moved down. In that config it's difficult to adjust the engines when they are neither close nor really far apart, because they take up a lot of internal volume.