J-20 5th Gen Fighter Thread V

[Air Force Brat]

I'm pretty confident those black diamonds are EO apertures. That is the same location the F-35's side facing EODAS apertures are placed as well.

And tbh I've never heard of a fighter with vents for their radars before. I don't know if a GaN AESA would even need a vent of any kind.

All high performance avionics require venting due to heat, and the F-35 uses fuel as a heat sink to kool the avionics? There are two enemies of electronics, heat and moisture, so as to a direct vent??? It may well be ducted from a high pressure area aft and vented to a low pressure area?

 

[Air Force Brat]

The Chinese are not nearly so profligate.

They have purpose designed lasers for precisely this sort of contingency. The irony is one of those anti-drone lasers probably cost less than a Patriot missile.

Somehow I doubt even the Israelis would have been so wasteful if they weren't getting billions of free arms from the US every year.

China is the home of the modern high end civilian camera drone. Do you think it's a co-incidence not a single picture has been taken of any significant Chinese military installation by drones?

Not only would such places have hard and softkill countermeasures against snooping drones, to use one in such a way is a surefire way to get on Chinese internal security's radar. And they are very good at their job, just ask the CIA.

Yep, it would be more than the customary invitation for tea??

 

[Quickie]

All high performance avionics require venting due to heat, and the F-35 uses fuel as a heat sink to kool the avionics? There are two enemies of electronics, heat and moisture, so as to a direct vent??? It may well be ducted from a high pressure area aft and vented to a low pressure area?

An air vent wouldn't have the capacity to remove heat fast enough from high power electronics. I would guess the J-20's is using a flowing liquid medium too, possibly liquid fuel as in the case for F-35, as a part of the heat sinking mechanism.

 

[Air Force Brat]

An air vent wouldn't have the capacity to remove heat fast enough from high power electronics. I would guess the J-20's is using a flowing liquid medium too, possibly liquid fuel as in the case for F-35, as a part of the heat sinking mechanism.

An air vent wouldn't have the capacity to remove heat fast enough from high power electronics. I would guess the J-20's is using a flowing liquid medium too, possibly liquid fuel as in the case for F-35, as a part of the heat sinking mechanism.

That's true and I should have stated that, there is however likely to be some sort of "intercooler" or "heat exchanger", and yes those are most likely EOTAs ports.

 

[RickHunter]

The Chinese police also just got those drone-downing guns...

DJs cant fly boz the software wont let you control the drone near any airport.

 

[Air Force Brat]

DJs cant fly boz the software wont let you control the drone near any airport.

actually an extremely simple matter to jam those very low output broadband signals? nothing complex or even powerful?? Those little choppers have a very limited range.

 

[Inst]

@Blitzo: Not sure if the CDF boys picked it up yet, but you got cited in a csis publication!

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[Blitzo]

@Blitzo: Not sure if the CDF boys picked it up yet, but you got cited in a csis publication!

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Thanks, yeah they saw it too.

I corresponded with the author regarding its draft.

 

[PiSigma]

Where was blitzo cited? I didn't find it

 

[Inst]

Look up size and weapons configuration. It's a link to Blitzo's paper on how the J-20's weapons bay precludes the use of anti-ship missiles.