Which one is J-XDS?Stop fat-shaming my bird!!!
But I do agree that the J-XDS is better looking.
J-10 Thread IV
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The twin engine one.
PiSigma
"the engineer"
All retired, a few already passed.
【“老兵”照样能打！28年，歼-10一直在升级……-哔哩哔哩】
【有“S型进气道”的歼-10C是拉皮隐身机？-哔哩哔哩】
Yankeesama and Shilao confirms something pretty interesting — J-10 series has an S-duct despite stealth not being a design requirement. This is because it has belly intake and since the landing gear bays gets in the way, the inlet has to twist around them and hide the engine blades. This helps the J-10C, which also applies RAM to critical areas, reduce frontal RCS significantly and it is very hard to detect when flying in formation with YY-20 or H-6. While not an actual stealth fighter by any stretch of the imagination, it is probably one of the best of its class among the 4.5th gen fighters.
Other RCS reducing measures I can think of are canted mount for radar and film treatment canopy. Since intake and radar/radome/canopy account for like 90 percent of the frontal RCS you really can achieve semi-stealth effects under clean configuration.
Yankeesama and Shilao confirms something pretty interesting — J-10 series has an S-duct despite stealth not being a design requirement. This is because it has belly intake and since the landing gear bays gets in the way, the inlet has to twist around them and hide the engine blades. This helps the J-10C, which also applies RAM to critical areas, reduce frontal RCS significantly and it is very hard to detect when flying in formation with YY-20 or H-6. While not an actual stealth fighter by any stretch of the imagination, it is probably one of the best of its class among the 4.5th gen fighters.
Other RCS reducing measures I can think of are canted mount for radar and film treatment canopy. Since intake and radar/radome/canopy account for like 90 percent of the frontal RCS you really can achieve semi-stealth effects under clean configuration.
So that would be like a DSI'd tyhoon, the only thing it lacks are semi-recessed hardpoints, which would've kept the A2A profile much cleaner.
Blades would've been hidden even without the S-duct due to DSI.
DSI only blocks at certain angles and requires RAM treatment to reduce radar reflections. This is why you see the grey patches on J-20’s DSI bump.
Ideally you want them hidden not only dead ahead.
P.s. j-10 statement more or less confirms that all "true" canard deltas(purpose built 4.5) are this way.
Sub generation indeed.
F-16 Block 52 with J-10C for comparison (pic is real)
