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

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latenlazy

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Air Force Brat said:
They're not going to change our girl at this stage, she's going to be back in the lime-light soon, somebodys gonna have to fly those long range intercepts, she's likely gonna have a future role after all. brat
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On the contrary IOC might not be for another 5 or so years, and there's still the new engine. Plus we're already seeing changes with the tail, and we also saw changes with the J-10B, so further changes before production aren't out of the question.
 
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latenlazy said:
On the contrary IOC might not be for another 5 or so years, and there's still the new engine. Plus we're already seeing changes with the tail, and we also saw changes with the J-10B, so further changes before production aren't out of the question.
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While the Air Force Brat has not seen any blue smoke from the wind tunnel, or any hard data, barring any major boo-boos in flight test, (and this is a possibility as we sure nuff haven't seen our girls out playing, and I have voiced my concerns in a previous post), the creation of the ADIZ will move money back to the J birds, I expect Xi himself to visit Chengdu just as he visited Shenyang, even if he does, IOC will still be 5-8 years at a minimum, thats what the J-20 is all about after all. With South Korea ordering F-35s along with Japan, this is a slam dunk for the J-20, and she will move to the front of the class, she is a maturing design, and if flight testing has proceeded as I believe it has, its "game on". brat
 
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I wonder why one side of wing tip is concave and another is convex? It is obvious sign of doctored pix, no?

Edit : Never mind, I checked previous photo, it is normal, just optical illussion.
 
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Bltizo said:
I just realized there is no 200X numbering on the nose, which should still be there if the manipulation was merely to make the photos negatives of the original.

So, could this be a flight of an unpainted J-20?
But that doesn't make sense either, because we had pictures of the cropped tail of a j-20 with the PLAAF star stamped on a while back. Maybe this picture was taken long before and only released now?
Or maybe the photographer just decided to doctor out the nose number....

But that's also a little confusing, because the picture suggests the radome is a very different colour from the rest of the fuselage...

Err I think its not even worth trying to figure this one out.
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I think You are 100% correct ! I also asked myself why the contrast between fuselage and radome is so extreme and why some panel-lines are clearly visible while others not ... IMO this is indeed an image, that was heavily doctored of an unpainted prototype. So come on ... unveil that thing !
 
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Someone who can translate might want to check the Chinese boards. Something is buzzing in micro blogging. Here's a thread that seems to be talking about the 2003 flying with talk about a noticeable difference maybe with the engine.

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I think that prototype 2003 won't be coming for a long time as they have time to assess the performance of the first two prototypes both in terms of flight and stealth. I think they would have to do quite some redesigning to improve both.
 
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