J-20 5th Gen Fighter Thread VIII

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SCE2Aux

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Tomboy said:
Close up of J-20S, likely enhanced though.
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Something rather curious about the hexagonal sensor aperture in that image: There are usually two hexagons just aft of the air intake, but here there's only one, along with an access panel of a different shape.
I've seen other images that showed just one hexagon, but I've put that down to the jpeg compression in the image, along with the orientation of the perforations within each hexagon making the apertures appear brighter or darker depending on viewing angle, such as in this image:
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And yet I've seen images of the J-20S with two hexagonal apertures before, such as this one (brightened for clarity):
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However, there are other, more indeterminate images that might indicated just one aperture in some J-20 variants/batches:
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All the possible single-hexagon aperture photos I have are either compressed or upscaled, or both, so I can't make any firm determination on what's going on. Could be the compression is removing a hexagon due to the brightening effect of the perforations I mentioned further up in this post.

It's either that, or there are different variants of J-20A/S that have different sensor suite configs: that's certainly possible if my low quality photos show what they appear to show, and would correlate nicely with Tomboys image too. Or the photo that Tomboy posted has some AI extrapolations going on. I can't say for sure, but I just wanted to throw this out there to see what people think because this looks interesting to me.
 
plawolf

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SCE2Aux said:
Something rather curious about the hexagonal sensor aperture in that image: There are usually two hexagons just aft of the air intake, but here there's only one, along with an access panel of a different shape.
I've seen other images that showed just one hexagon, but I've put that down to the jpeg compression in the image, along with the orientation of the perforations within each hexagon making the apertures appear brighter or darker depending on viewing angle, such as in this image:
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And yet I've seen images of the J-20S with two hexagonal apertures before, such as this one (brightened for clarity):
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However, there are other, more indeterminate images that might indicated just one aperture in some J-20 variants/batches:
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All the possible single-hexagon aperture photos I have are either compressed or upscaled, or both, so I can't make any firm determination on what's going on. Could be the compression is removing a hexagon due to the brightening effect of the perforations I mentioned further up in this post.

It's either that, or there are different variants of J-20A/S that have different sensor suite configs: that's certainly possible if my low quality photos show what they appear to show, and would correlate nicely with Tomboys image too. Or the photo that Tomboy posted has some AI extrapolations going on. I can't say for sure, but I just wanted to throw this out there to see what people think because this looks interesting to me.
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Those are not sensor apertures but angled meshed intake/exhausts. When the angle is right, the meshed holes fade to be barely perceivable (as designed to minimise RCS), and any sort of AI enhancement will just end up smoothing them out altogether.
 
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