J-10 Thread IV

[FriedRiceNSpice]

The only question is why CAC didn't work J-16's RAM paint into the newest J-10 variants.

Possibly due to the high maintenance costs associated with RAM paint. Does anyone know if it is feasible to apply RAM paint on a pre existing aircraft that originally did not have RAM treatment?

 

[Tam]

Possibly due to the high maintenance costs associated with RAM paint. Does anyone know if it is feasible to apply RAM paint on a pre existing aircraft that originally did not have RAM treatment?

RAM does not necessarily mean its paint. RAM is Radar Absorbent Material, so that's broadly speaking. It can also mean that parts of the aircraft may be substituted with metamaterials built with matrices underneath or in between sandwich that could be absorbing and cancelling out radio waves.

 

[by78]

Gracefully canted nose.

(2048 × 1365)

 

[by78]

More J-10C close-ups in high-resolution.

 

[duncanidaho]

More J-10C close-ups in high-resolution.

Are you sure that it is a J-10C and not a J-10B?
Because the vertical stabilizer indicates it is a J-10B.


But the interessting part is the serial number on the refueling probe.
Is there any context between the serial number on the probe and on the aircraft?

 

[TerraN_EmpirE]

Possibly due to the high maintenance costs associated with RAM paint. Does anyone know if it is feasible to apply RAM paint on a pre existing aircraft that originally did not have RAM treatment?

Google “HAVE GLASS” it’s F16 of the USAF retrofit with some RAM coatings and a canopy with tin iridium oxide coating.
However that doesn’t make it a Stealth just as doing the same to J10C wouldn’t.

 

[Air Force Brat]

Google “HAVE GLASS” it’s F16 of the USAF retrofit with some RAM coatings and a canopy with tin iridium oxide coating.
However that doesn’t make it a Stealth just as doing the same to J10C wouldn’t.

Exactly, my old man flew the Combat Talon I when he was assigned to MACVSOG, the MC-130E had 400 lbs of radar absorbing "paint", the Fulton recovery system, and a slew of highly classified electronics...

It did NOT make the C-130E a fifth gen fighter in terms of RCS, but it did make it much less likely to "paint" a huge target as it went about its very classified and clandestine business.

That black radar absorbing coating turned the beautiful C-130 into a frumpy looking lump, but it did the job...

By the way, the MC-130E made many trips into China, most at very low altitude, some at very high altitude, it had terrain following radar to allow those trips to be made in the dead, dark of night....

 

[Air Force Brat]

Exactly, my old man flew the Combat Talon I when he was assigned to MACVSOG, the MC-130E had 400 lbs of radar absorbing "paint", the Fulton recovery system, and a slew of highly classified electronics...

It did NOT make the C-130E a fifth gen fighter in terms of RCS, but it did make it much less likely to "paint" a huge target as it went about its very classified and clandestine business.

That black radar absorbing coating turned the beautiful C-130 into a frumpy looking lump, but it did the job...

By the way, the MC-130E made many trips into China, most at very low altitude, some at very high altitude, it had terrain following radar to allow those trips to be made in the dead, dark of night....

So yes, those coatings do indeed reduce RCS, how much depends on the aircraft they are being applied to...

 

[Air Force Brat]

Possibly due to the high maintenance costs associated with RAM paint. Does anyone know if it is feasible to apply RAM paint on a pre existing aircraft that originally did not have RAM treatment?

it is feasible, but how effective it might be would be highly dependant on the aircraft you started with.

 

[Hyperwarp]

What the .......?

Is it just an inaccurate model or a foreshadowing?

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