J-20 5th Gen Fighter Thread VIII

[Deino]

According to Huitong, we now have three more J-20s confirmed attending the Changchun Air Show 2025 besides the already known serial number 63106, namely the numbers 63005, 63101 & 63201 also from the 19th Air Brigade based at Zhangjiakou / Ningyuan AP.

 

[taxiya]

are those J-20As? Kind of blurry but I feel like the radome color is lighter than the fuselage, and that the hump's visible (especially on the jet on the far left). I don't have high hopes but it would definitely be super sick if that was the case.

You could have identified them being J-20 by the 2nd photo. When the hump is not visible you can see the difference by the DSI bump.
J-20

J-20A


This cut-off is a common underlaying construction change of J-20A and S from J-20.

 

[by78]

A clear day in Changchun for the rehearsals.

 

[00rinsak]

You could have identified them being J-20 by the 2nd photo. When the hump is not visible you can see the difference by the DSI bump.
J-20
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J-20A
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This cut-off is a common underlaying construction change of J-20A and S from J-20.

I was asking specifically for the first photo because of the heat haze and distortion. Literallly anyone could tell that the one in the second was a vanilla one

I asked the question because there's some jets/planes that just conduct a flyby and I had my hopes up that the 20As might just participate in a fly past. Obviously that's not the case now that I have seen it for myself - I'll post the photos here when I get the time to sort my files.

 

[by78]

Rehearsing for the Changchun Air Show.

 

[Mearex]

has anyone ever seen a J-20 do a cobra or a flat spin? Also, do any of the J-20 versions have TVC?

 

[siegecrossbow]

has anyone ever seen a J-20 do a cobra or a flat spin?

I don’t think it is optimized for post stall maneuvers but we’ve seen a video of it having good nose control authority at almost zero airspeed from rehearsals for Zhuhai Airshow 2021.

 

[Mearex]

I don’t think it is optimized for post stall maneuvers but we’ve seen a video of it having good nose control authority at almost zero airspeed from rehearsals for Zhuhai Airshow 2021.

mind sharing the link to that video?

 

[siegecrossbow]

mind sharing the link to that video?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1572175436783976450

 

[latenlazy]

I don’t think it is optimized for post stall maneuvers but we’ve seen a video of it having good nose control authority at almost zero airspeed from rehearsals for Zhuhai Airshow 2021.

I’m sure the plane can do these maneuvers. They just aren’t risking airframes for stunts. We never see Chinese Flankers doing post stall maneuvers either yet we know they should be able to.