J-20 5th Gen Fighter Thread V

[Air Force Brat]

Well, if you were on a training mission in a stealth aircraft flying with drop tanks and did not drop them prior to entering rival radar range, the radar of a rival nation would see your drop tanks and pylons, but not your stealth fighter (if it works) BUT they would be able to assume that those drop tanks and pylons are attached to a fighter, no? Then, they could analyze the return pattern and see if they can pick up any minute traces of signal (normally considered background at that level because it's so minute) around the drop tanks/pylons and see if they could detect a pattern. Then, they could program their radars to call a positive on that pattern whenever it detected it, even if it was way below the normal threshold for a call. I'm assuming, of course, that stealth fighters do not return no signal at all, but rather return a signal (in a unique signatory pattern depending on stealth model) too small for the radar (under normal circumstances) to determine from background noise.

I don't really know if they can do this; this is just what I suppose may be possible so do correct me if I'm wrong.

Nah!, that there is dreaming, LOL

 

[Equation]

They OPFOR can get ONLY a general idea or location of the stealth fighter to alert the rest of the team about a possible enemy sighting. But that is NOT enough, they have to go search and find that stealth fighter themselves in order to visually see where it came and going or wait till one of their wing man get shot down out of no where.

 

[Deino]

Guys ... are we still in the J-11 Flanker tread ???

Deino

 

[PanAsian]

Guys ... are we still in the J-11 Flanker tread ???

Deino

I assume you mean the J-20 thread?

 

[Deino]

Upppss ... even more a sign how far this tread went off quite similar to the Flanker-tread !

 

[Air Force Brat]

Upppss ... even more a sign how far this tread went off quite similar to the Flanker-tread !

So Bruda, we agree that 2017 is likely to show up in the very near future, what about 2018, 2019??? and is 2016 an LRIP bird, as I suspect it must be???

 

[Deino]

To admit I don't know ...

Until then here's Bai Wei's latest artwork, the J-10C "Carrier-version" !

 

[GreenestGDP]

If I am not mistaken, I have not seen this 2012 picture.
Hopefully, it has not been posted before.

Does anyone know -- where is this 2012 location ?

 

[Deino]

It's an old image .... saved froma video-still on 15. July 2014 and later in a better version posted on 3. August 2014. Image was taken at CAC.

 

[Jeff Head]

Deino, I think the carrier version, at least at this point, is a pipe dream.

I do not believe the initial design was set up for, or done with carrier operations in mind. Oh, they could alter it and make a version for it. But I do not believe they will even go there until well after the J-20 is operational itself with the PLAAF.

Probably they will want the PLAN to first get its own carrier air wings of J-15s developed and deployed before taking on an entirely new aircraft like that.

But, as with all else...time will tell.