J-20 5th Gen Fighter Thread IV (Closed to posting)
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Hardly think those will do anything to RCS. We're talking energy differences of hundreds if not thousands of magnitudes.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
The gold composit lining inside the canopy glass itself should be more than enough to shield all the internals, including the brace, from incoming enemy radar.
As for the HMD sensors compromising stealth, well for one, all existing head tracking technology used in HMD/HMS are optical based (sensors look for the positional change in all those little tracking balls built into the helmet), so there should be zero EM emissions. Even if they opted to used some sort if EM based sensor for the HMD on the J20, I think they would have bigger fish to fry, if you excuse the pun, if the emissions are strong enough to be detected by enemy sensors are anything like meaningful ranges, after being mostly blocked by the same gold composit tainting, as such a strong EM field within the cockpit will likely lightly microwave the pilot...
As for the HMD sensors compromising stealth, well for one, all existing head tracking technology used in HMD/HMS are optical based (sensors look for the positional change in all those little tracking balls built into the helmet), so there should be zero EM emissions. Even if they opted to used some sort if EM based sensor for the HMD on the J20, I think they would have bigger fish to fry, if you excuse the pun, if the emissions are strong enough to be detected by enemy sensors are anything like meaningful ranges, after being mostly blocked by the same gold composit tainting, as such a strong EM field within the cockpit will likely lightly microwave the pilot...
However, it certainly trades off aesthetics! Magnitudes that are notable!
It looks like it was designed with some kind of super organic sci-fi aesthetic in mind.
broadsword
Brigadier
Yes ... but to admit my first impression ws that afterburner looks like a GE F110 !
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