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It’s a nice little jet, I don’t see any IRST though(or is it a bump on the nose where the pic doesn’t show?). Anyways once this thing comes online, Indian fans will finally face the same pain that PLA watchers felt with J-20s and FC-31s lol
What did they do, take the pictures of J-31 off of Sinodefense to design this? I hope they pay us royalties here...
The new model actually resembles a cross between the JF-17 and FC-31.
"CABS" = "Center for Air Borne Systems"
It's "Airborne"... 1 word.
This 'center' will be involved in engineering a 5th gen fighter?
It can't even construct its own acronym.
Lol this was good:
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A plane is nothing without engine. You can't say AMCA is an Indian plane unless it has an Indian engine.
Oh come on that's unfair. Up until recently neither the J-20 nor the J-10 is a true Chinese plane going by your definition.
I'm well aware of this but it does not look like an aerodynamically "clean" solution.
Those canard positions are quite a lot closer to the centre of gravity and it's quite a "short" aircraft as it is but it's a worthy add on to overcome the previous leading edge issues where they designed it with two sweep angles. The canards will be a definite improvement not just for more lift. I don't think it really matters how close coupled it is when it comes to turning performance since they have really no more realestate to put those canards.
Anyway looks like the Indian guys for all their big talk in the last few decades are only able to copy 1970s designs for future application. So far all of them are models only and probably a decade away from service at best. AMCA is a pipedream. 10 years of laughing at others who have actually developed a F-35/F-22 copy into a flyable design at least and only to make a model of a copy of a copy of a copy. Around 2040 to 2050 when the AMCA reaches service if it ever does, the Indians would be where China was (assuming they have everything else matured) back in the 2000s.