defaultuser1
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Wow this plane is pretty disappointing. No thrust vectoring, no phased array radar and no supercruise?
J-20... The New Generation Fighter
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I hope you have read through the rest of this forum thread... anyway, there are something that is quite puzzling on what this Andrei Chang had pointed out that is questionable.
The aircraft is just there when the photographs are being taken. And I believe Taxi run had been conducted. Other than that, the aircraft was pretty much on ground. How in the world would this Andrei Chang know that this aircraft lack of supercruise?
Plus did this analysis had any assess into the aircraft? If not how he know what type of radar was used and what type of radar that it did not use. And for that... how would he know if the aircraft is inferior when compared to the US and Russia?
What we are seeing is a prototype... station on ground... and then a taxi run, and that was about all. And suddenly this analysis could see so much into the entire project, as if he is part of the design team... highly questionable.
The mainstream medias are reporting J20 now.
China completes stealth fighter prototype
(AFP) – 1 hour ago
BEIJING — China appears to have completed a prototype of its first known stealth fighter, reports said Wednesday, highlighting Beijing's military modernisation days ahead of a visit by the US defence secretary.
China completes stealth fighter prototype
(AFP) – 1 hour ago
BEIJING — China appears to have completed a prototype of its first known stealth fighter, reports said Wednesday, highlighting Beijing's military modernisation days ahead of a visit by the US defence secretary.
Semi-Lobster
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The embeded video is obviously to help people who don't follow defence news or developments really but its quite hilarious. It's all CHINA MILITARY BUILD UP. CHINA THREATENING ASIAN STABILITY. CHINA WILL USE THIS TO THREATEN ITS NEIGHBOURS. BE AFRAID. The written article itself is fine though which makes the contrast all the more strange.
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Engineer
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Anybody else finds it hilarious that China gets accused of copying when it builds an aircraft that remotely resembles another aircraft, then gets implicitly accused of coming up with a bad design when China comes up with something different? lol.
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MwRYum
Major
Alright now I'm a almost a convert but, those who should've known better and supposed with better intel still in denial...
To put it very short, Taiwan's defense intel staff calling the J-20 PS work at a parliament meeting...now, if J-20 does fly within the next few days, they'd look like massive idiots...
There's little can be done for it's like a known equation, like 4/2 has the same result as with 6/3, unless there's another novel way to approach this all stealth fighters would bear quite a few common external characteristics. It ain't like with planes in the past, to meet the stealth requirements those are the rules to follow.
What set apart China's from the rest is that China done so on its own, not as international consortium, no financial nor active technological assistance from other countries (hallmarks of aircraft projects nowadays). That's about only besides the US done so (F-22) when you talk about the 4th-gen fighters - Russia's T-50 getting India funding to push for the final product, Japan's ain't beyond mockup and just to shack US to sell F-22, Korea and Indonesia joined hands to R&D their own project....
To put it very short, Taiwan's defense intel staff calling the J-20 PS work at a parliament meeting...now, if J-20 does fly within the next few days, they'd look like massive idiots...
There's little can be done for it's like a known equation, like 4/2 has the same result as with 6/3, unless there's another novel way to approach this all stealth fighters would bear quite a few common external characteristics. It ain't like with planes in the past, to meet the stealth requirements those are the rules to follow.
What set apart China's from the rest is that China done so on its own, not as international consortium, no financial nor active technological assistance from other countries (hallmarks of aircraft projects nowadays). That's about only besides the US done so (F-22) when you talk about the 4th-gen fighters - Russia's T-50 getting India funding to push for the final product, Japan's ain't beyond mockup and just to shack US to sell F-22, Korea and Indonesia joined hands to R&D their own project....
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Quickie
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It's even more amazing when someone in that article sees DSI, canards, stealth shaping as 1980s technologies. I guess, for some people, a stealth fighter has to have the general shape of F-22 or T50 and non other.
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