b787
Captain
My avatar was, the wing swept is and always will be a reference at what speed an aircraft operates, J-20 is intended to cruise at higher speeds and the canards are only used to enhance its low speed handling, but yes they are intended for low transonic speeds in previous generations, 5th generation are designed as aircraft to cruise at Mach speeds of 1.3-1.8 and large wings and TVC nozzles are used for increase STOL and maneuverability.I didn't know fighters were supposed to be optimized for low speed. There is a reason why pointing to one lift coefficient value tells us nothing about performance. You need to look at the *whole* lift curve.
Did you understand reference area is to consider aircraft have a center of gravity and symmetry longitudinal line? thus the wing span is used to consider its effective area of application of 2 wings but longer wing span increases gliding capability thus gliders use it.
Any way this is highly off topic so i will leave it here
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