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J-20 5th Generation Fighter VII
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Do you have link for that blog?
so we can expect 70+ units minimum from 2023 onward. that's huge for a stealth fighter jet. only US exceed this production rate.
now finally China showing their mass production skills. LOL
Although some degree of skepticism is always warranted, it's not outlandish that a platform that's been in service for five years and been flying for more than ten to be mature enough to manufacture at this scale. The question here is who this lyman2003 person is. What's his track record?
Number of aligned surfaces do matter too because it amplifies the return signal but that's a smaller question than the major one of what direction your surfaces are in.
I would guess that the bigger factor regarding the strength of the return signal is the total surface area exposed along a specific angle, not necessarily the number of surfaces. In this regard, it makes sense that the V-tails of the J-20 are relatively small since the total "reflection budget" has to account for reflections from the aligned strake at the opposite side of the aircraft.
That's what I mean. The number of aligned surfaces = surface area. The greater the number of aligned surfaces means greater area exposed in that specific angle.
This is a lower priority than orientation or surfaces for sure. Much less but still does factor in to stealth and RCS in a non zero way. I think deleting ventral fins may help RCS in the way that it minimises the surface area in that orientation BUT if may expose engine nozzle from more angles. Very slightly more lol but who knows. It's probably a balance overall unless someone has all the specifics hahaha. I'm sure CAC and PLAAF have exact details on how having it and not having it affect the J-20 wrt performance and stealthiness. In other words, they certainly know best and if it stays after WS-15 integration, we would have very good indication that ventral fins in this application do not constitute so much of a RCS penalty as to be worth deletion or the mission profiles for J-20s are in such a way that penalty does not matter.
one more thing to add on this is that the ventral fin, based on the primer color (same to the random), should be made in almost complete wave transmitting composite material, so theoratical, it should be invisible on the radar...
Ähhhm ??? I say I doubt these numbers and even the currently often mentioned claim of 40 per year and you rate it as if even 70 - in fact even more than the 60 claimed - would roll off the line?!!!
Did I miss something?
well, it's not completely impossible to get the number of 40, at least for this year, we got from ~90- to 110-120 within a year, and there is still 3 months to go this year, so...
I actually think China has been slightly muting production these last few years. It's not ideal to pump out lots of airframes utilizing an interim engine. Once WS-15 is finalized I can see production of J-20B ramping up to that number over 2-3 years. There's probably a laundry list of upgrades PLAAF are itching to make once WS-15 is available, and that will necessitate lots of flying hours which means lots of airframes.
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