Old photo released a week ago.
J-20 5th Generation Fighter VII
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Old photo released a week ago.
CB0134 would imply 34 of Batch 01 not 134 a/c
First of all any tip (joining point of two lines) is a source of RCS increase. Clipping one tip will create two tips. So you don't just crop it, but do so only if the sum of the RCS increase of the two new tips are less than the one tip you cropped.
A tip of acute angle (the back tip) has higher RCS signature than a tip of obtuse angle. The smaller the angle, the higher RCS. Therefor you want to clip it. The tip at the front is not seen as a problem. You can see that all tips of wings or canards or horizontal stabilizers of F-22, F-35 and J-20's are not clipped because clipping them may be counter-productive.
Figure 1 of post #5,482 has shown that only the back tip is considered a concern.
The same paper also said that if it was for RCS reduction purpose the trailing edge of the canard would haven been forward swapping (no clipping needed). But that counters the aerodynamic performance of canard.
Just noticed, there is another new vide - the old one indeed seems to be deleted - and again it sounded as if he was mentions me… could anyone explain what he said?
They made the correction that you weren't the one to speculate about AI backseater and WS-15 engines, rather it was the opinion of 'other foreign experts'.
Seems to me China is going with the school of thought of abandoning dogfighting for missile delivery, which the US tried with the F-4 Phantom, but missile and radar technology wasn't mature enough back then during the Vietnam war.
Dogfighting needs not to be done with a gun these days. In the unlikely event of a merge, the J-20 could use the ITR to change directions, launch PL-10, and disengage.
i know and that’s why I was a bit upset that he misquoted me .. and at least he corrected and admitted this.
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