I doubt there would have been widescale use of new manufacturing techniques that weren't already present in past production batches, and I doubt there would have been any change in weapons bay dimensions, as alluded.
J-20 5th Generation Fighter VII
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I doubt there would have been widescale use of new manufacturing techniques that weren't already present in past production batches, and I doubt there would have been any change in weapons bay dimensions, as alluded.
Oh, I’m totally discarding the weapons bay claim. That one to me is far too conjectural. But I’m not as ready to discard manufacturing changes given how aggressively we’ve seen previous models iterate on manufacturing design.
Right, I was just imagining what a large scale internal reorganization would mean, I agree it’s probably not as big as I thought. I was taking the designers words at face value, in a translated form. Can someone listen to the original speech as described in the global times articles please?
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From what I understand, the translation is accurate.
However, I'm not sure which domestic engine he's alluding to, WS-10 or WS-15.
He said in the past, due to the weakness of China's engine industry, the designers were forced to make compromises and adopt an interim engine. The interim engine wasn't designed for J-20, so the designers then have to make some compromises in J-20 performance in order to accommodate the interim engine. Now that the originally planned engine is ready, it will allow the J-20 to show its full potential.
Personally, I'm leaning towards WS-15, since this is the rumored "ultimate" J-20 engine that we've been hearing all this time, but I'm not 100% sure.
He stated that the j-20s with changed engines are in service, which can only mean ws-10.
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Yes that translation is spot on.
what does this do
A towed decoy fools enemy missiles into attacking it instead of the fighter aircraft. Surprised that it took China this long to develop it.
No. China doesn't develop it NOW. It's a research subject focus on modifying and improving the towed decoy pod.
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