Someone on Weibo uploaded this picture of the size comparison between J-20 and J-35, I don't know if it is correct.
J-35 carrier fighter (PLAN) thread
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ummmm, fangfang's work, i will always give a question mark...
also, how much we can confirm the J-35 has the exact the same weapon bay size to j-20's?
It look big, did they do the comparison based on weapons bay or missile size ? Side pictures make it look smaller than that.
I don't think that's credible.
While J-XY/35 is expected to have the same sized weapons bay dimension as J-20, we haven't got a picture of J-XY/35 from that angle yet showing its weapons bay to make an overlapping comparison like this.
J-XY/35 does have a fairly wide wingspan for its size as a medium weight aircraft, but I do not think it is that much wider than J-20's wingspan as depicted (we can measure J-XY/35's wingspan on GE)
FangFang has been one of the strongest J35 criticisers for all these years. His claim, now his dream, has always been heavy carrier fighter. The above CG was his last year’s attempt to show that China’s next Naval fighter would be big and heavy. Now, he is not very active on commenting about J35.
Almost certainly, yes.
F-35 has similar panels on both sides for routine maintenance refuelling and other purposes, and so on.
Top one shouldn't be, the bottom one I don't recognize having seen in this thread.
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Take this with a grain of salt, although the Weibo poster is reliable and careful. The image allegedly shows an alternate stabilator design that didn't make it to the prototype bird, but the development on it continues. On the current prototype, the stabilator and tail boom/sting (marked with red box) are two separate pieces, with the stabilator being mounted on the stationary boom. This alternate design combines the tail boom and stabilator into a single piece just like the F-35, which means it likely has an increased moveable area.
So they kept some side nozzles IR shielding over more control surface area if it's the case.Take this with a grain of salt, although the Weibo poster is reliable and careful. The image allegedly shows an alternate stabilator design that didn't make it to the prototype bird, but the development on it continues. On the current prototype, the stabilator and tail boom/sting (marked with red box) are two separate pieces, with the stabilator being mounted on the stationary boom. This alternate design combines the tail boom and stabilator into a single piece just like the F-35, which means it likely has an increased moveable area.
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