Any guess about the possible anti-surface warfare and SEAD capability of the upcoming carrier borne fighter ?
J-35 carrier fighter (PLAN) thread
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Interesting that there should be a protrusion on the belly right above the “@”A good angle, with beefy landing gears down.
My guess is that it’s a retractable luneburg lens like the ones on the more recent J-20. Good to see that it’s there
Agreed, but I feel like we’ll need to wait for more info before we can be absolutely sure. The J-xy’s ability on these fronts would be restricted by what it can fit inside its weapons bay, and as such we’ll probably need to wait for a new generation of weapons that is designed with the requirements in mind.
One example would be anti-radiation missiles, currently China utilizes YJ-91 for that, but it’s obviously too large to be carried internally (personally I’d even go so far as to argue it’s a bit too large for J-10)
Its like the F-35 but twenty years younger.A good angle, with beefy landing gears down.
Not a retractable luneburg lens but a regular one. Retractable one on J-20 is hexagonal in shape.
Yes it’s a hexagon but at the same time it can look basically like a featureless black rectangle from afar, as is the case in the picture you posted.
Besides there is really no good reason that the J-xy prototype should not be fitted with a retractable lens since the technology is readily available and has advantages versus a non-retractable one.
do you have any larger picture of this retractable luneburg lens?
I’ve got a few pictures of both the old design and the new retractable one here (first two images are the old design and the latter 3 are the new one
