J-20 5th Gen Fighter Thread IV (Closed to posting)

[siegecrossbow]

I don't think a full scale prototype was built until the design is selected. Of coure they would have stuff like wind tunnel data, models of the plane and exhibition of aircraft subsystems.



-601 sent 15 reports and 14 presentation script on 18 august.

-on august 23rd 601 did a whole day report to experts in beijing, including
videos, the overview report and 13 other reports.

-611 did their reports on 24th august

On 29th august experts went to Shenyang, visited laboratories on 30th, displays on the design, listened to their reports. They compared canard and conventional designs as well as caret and dsi designs.

Shenyang's design was a Su-47 sized triplane design that tried to compensate for maneuverability with extra control surfaces which complicated the flight control quite a bit. Coupled with the shortcoming of Chinese engines, it is no surprise that it failed to get selected.

 

[SinoSoldier]

:coffee::coffee:

 

[Deino]

Funny ... and the tip of the tail rudder is exactly behind that "whatever it is" on the fence so we can not see if it is cropped (and the image posted a few days ago is real) or if not (and the image posted a few days ago is fake) !

Deino

 

[latenlazy]

Funny ... and the tip of the tail rudder is exactly behind that "whatever it is" on the fence so we can not see if it is cropped (and the image posted a few days ago is real) or if not (and the image posted a few days ago is fake) !

Deino

Pretty sure it's not clipped. For one, if this is the "gray" one, it's the wrong colour. For two, I zoomed in and it looks like there's a corner.

 

[Blitzo]

It looks like there's no canopy

 

[Deino]

Pretty sure it's not clipped. For one, if this is the "gray" one, it's the wrong colour. For two, I zoomed in and it looks like there's a corner.

Jeppp but following this info´provided by 'SOC'

Late October imagery from Xian-Yanliang shows two J-20s on the ramp, and one of them appears to be painted grey.

He's right now the satellite imagery analyst for IHS Jane's.

So this is either an older image showing an older prototype without its canopy or indeed a new bird.

Let's keep fingers crossed.

Deino

 

[Equation]

Pretty sure it's not clipped. For one, if this is the "gray" one, it's the wrong colour. For two, I zoomed in and it looks like there's a corner.

Naval version of the J-20 perhaps? I hope.

 

[Skywatcher]

Naval version of the J-20 perhaps? I hope.

Seems a bit early for that. If true, then there are a lot more prototypes than the two we definitely know about.

 

[Lion]

J-20 200X But if might turn out to be a Psed since we seen the grey J-20 also appearing.

 

[Deino]

J-20 200X But if might turn out to be a Psed since we seen the grey J-20 also appearing.

To admit with now the latest images all finally unveiled as psed FAKES, I would not bet this one to be real. On the other side the image posted above is IMO not a light-grey J-20 but only due to the lightning conditions. As such I won't hold my breath but I'm more than curious.

By the way I still don't understand that '2004' ???

Deino