Are you talking about the actuators? They are necessary for moving control surfaces.
J-20 5th Generation Fighter VII
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Are you talking about the actuators? They are necessary for moving control surfaces.
Those are actuators. They used to look a lot worse on the early prototypes. Indeed, they may be somewhat detrimental to RCS.
plawolf
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You mean the actuators? Planes need them to manoeuvre. F22 and F35 both have them.
I agree, especially looking at this one. The contrails from the wing tips are different hue (gray, bluish) while the exhaust is yellowish even though they are at the same angle from the sun. And there is no contrail created by main wings to mistaken with the exhaust.
It is just to enable the stabs to move without hitting the base. Think about if you make a door 50 mm thick with a 1 mm gap to the door frame, can you open it?
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I think WS-10 on flankers are the same. You can see the inner petal here. Only WS-10 TVC has inner petal removed because it has to. Together the airflow inside the engine and control algorithm has to be changed.
Well… there is no doubt about that for a long time…
we already have pictures of single large display on j-16, you won’t expect anything worse on j-20, right?
The newer variant of WS-10 with elongated feathers got rid of the inner petals.
Well, F-22 does at any rate.
F-35 (and FC-31 for that matter) do not have external actuators like that.
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This is new to me. Do you mean this? Do you have a photo or video from an angle closer to the axis?
I see the outside differences, but can't be sure of the inner details with this resolution.
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