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J-20 5th Generation Fighter VII
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A side by side pic showing the physical difference between J-20 (I and II) and J-20A (WS-15) would be nice.
And the twin seater is J-20B not J-20S regardless of the of the engine? Well I'm guessing they will be taking the WS-15 if they haven't enter into production yet.
And the twin seater is J-20B not J-20S regardless of the of the engine? Well I'm guessing they will be taking the WS-15 if they haven't enter into production yet.
yeah.....?
so you were refering to?
...do you realize that every single turbofan engine (F119, WS-10, CFM-56) by defination can by refer as a bypass turbojet?
I previously asked a question of whether we'd heard anything on the J-20A systems being retrofittable on J-20s. Would it be fair to say that Yankee's article implies that the J-20A shares some of the J-20B's new internal structures and processes, thus making it unlikely that J-20 airframes can be brought up to the J-20A variant without difficulty?
He's probably not aware of turbofans being essentially turbojets with a bypass stream, so he was a bit confused by the "bypass turbojet" description.
Any comments on improved stealth the new airframe would offer?
Most of the improvements would not be visible to the naked eye, though we do know that the revised nose geometry offers some benefits to the previous one.
Older J-20 probably can’t retrofit the same stuff that goes into J-20A but they’ve had at least two internal upgrades. See Yankee’s comments about differences between early AL-31 J-20 and WS-10C J-20.
Thanks! My interest in this stems from trying to understand what happens to the early J-20s. Going off Scramble, I think the PLAAF sent several J-11 brigades the J-16 as replacements, so would it be fair to say that the brigades that currently have J-20s will probably get the J-20As and have their J-20s sent to other brigades?
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