J-20 5th Gen Fighter Thread V

[taxiya]

That is the yellow one, I believe two pictures are showing the same aircraft.

The belly picture only appears less saturated because it was at the shady side and the sky was brighter, which affected white balance of the camera.

I will stop here, but I have my doubt. Unless, in a way I can't understand, that the photo was really "twisted". Because, as I know saturation change only lead to the shade change, from deep gray to light gray, or deep yellow to light yellow or even milky white, but never reverse the color temperate, yellow and blue/green (J-20's real paint color) are opposite, they don't "bleed" into one another unless something like colored filter or PS are applied. Anyway, only my understanding.

Another thing is that, we have seen three J-20s at Chengdu air field, one gray and two yellow, don't you think that we are seeing two aircrafts?

 

[superdog]

I will stop here, but I have my doubt. Unless, in a way I can't understand, that the photo was really "twisted". Because, as I know saturation change only lead to the shade change, from deep gray to light gray, or deep yellow to light yellow or even milky white, but never reverse the color temperate, yellow and blue/green (J-20's real paint color) are opposite, they don't "bleed" into one another unless something like colored filter or PS are applied. Anyway, only my understanding.

Another thing is that, we have seen three J-20s at Chengdu air field, one gray and two yellow, don't you think that we are seeing two aircrafts?

This is what the painted one looks like:

This is what the yellow one looks like:

I think the differences are pretty clear. If you're not sure about color differences, just look at the PLAAF insignia.

 

[A.Man]

J-20

 

[Deino]

How can you tell? I only see a grayish blob.

Sorry for the late reply !
If You look at the enlarged cut-out, You notice that the IRST-dome is glazed - golden - ... whereas the usually common mock-up is indeed only a grey blob !



By the way ... just found this one since there are reports about now already 7 LRIP J-20As being build.

 

[davidau]

Production run of the third J20 with slight improvements as depicted in photo 2.

 

[Tyloe]

new radar fittings?

 

[plawolf]

new radar fittings?

More likely to be RAM to better control corner and edge reflections.

Could also be additional sensors embedded under those as well.

 

[Blitzo]

Production run of the third J20 with slight improvements as depicted in photo 2.

Are those "slight improvements" really improvements at all?

Weren't those circled parts consistent with what we first say on J-20 s/n 2101?

The only slight possible difference might be that the dielectric grey fairings on the tailstings are slightly different to 2101 in terms of coverage (the overall geometry of the tailstings are the same as 2101), but even then the overall geometry of the tail sting is identical as 2101.

 

[superdog]

Sorry for the late reply !
If You look at the enlarged cut-out, You notice that the IRST-dome is glazed - golden - ... whereas the usually common mock-up is indeed only a grey blob !

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By the way ... just found this one since there are reports about now already 7 LRIP J-20As being build.

View attachment 32554

Thanks, the recent picture was unclear but the two close ups certainly shows it is not a placeholder. Did not see those close-ups before.

 

[siegecrossbow]

J-20 maneuver videos from the 28th.

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