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J-20 5th Generation Fighter VII
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Can someone explain or describe what's going on over here? (red circle)
It looks like a rater abrupt step/discontinuity in the dorsal fuselage of the aircraft.
I've never seen this on any other J-20 before, so I assume this is the angle of the image and the aircraft, but for the life of me I can't make heads or tails of how that visual effect would be produced, especially as we've had similar angles of J-20 in other images that hasn't produced this strange effect as far as I can recall.
I assume the discontinuity is that this particular angle of the image happens to capture the slight angled protrusion at the dorsal/rear EOPDS aperture housing, which gives it that unique appearance, but jeez it certainly looks bizarre from this specific frontal/offset angle, like it's missing a chunk of fuselage in that area.
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I think it's just an visual error over certain angle thing,
also, can you please post the second image without the red circle? thank you so much.
lcloo
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I think you already have the answer by yourself.Can someone explain or describe what's going on over here? (red circle)
It looks like a rater abrupt step/discontinuity in the dorsal fuselage of the aircraft.
I've never seen this on any other J-20 before, so I assume this is the angle of the image and the aircraft, but for the life of me I can't make heads or tails of how that visual effect would be produced, especially as we've had similar angles of J-20 in other images that hasn't produced this strange effect as far as I can recall.
I assume the discontinuity is that this particular angle of the image happens to capture the slight angled protrusion at the dorsal/rear EOPDS aperture housing, which gives it that unique appearance, but jeez it certainly looks bizarre from this specific frontal/offset angle, like it's missing a chunk of fuselage in that area.
Here is another photo showing the same.
by78
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It's the angle. Previous images have shown the same thing, albeit not to the same abrupt extent.
I had a speculation about those hexagons on the inlets: The forward ones seem to be just a perforated region of the skin. There's a meme that DSIs perform optimally in a narrower flight regime and at slower speeds than diverter plates. Assuming this has any accuracy, I wonder if the structures are there to expand the DSI's optimal envelope by venting excess pressure at higher flight speeds. This is supported by the observation that the "vents" are placed symmetrically on both inlets.
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