J-35 carrier fighter (PLAN) thread

[ougoah]

These LRIP batch J-35s need to lift their detail work to J-20's level. Look at the alignment of these radome discharge strips and where the canopy meets the perimeter. The other bits are from stealth tape to seal off the fuel probe compartment.

Overall the finish is pretty superb. Just not J-20 or F-35 level.

Compare to J-20.




Everywhere else it's meeting the standard, especially fuselage sections and gaps but the J-20's canopy looks better made. Even the discharge strips on a J-10 radome is perfectly made. Same goes for J-16 and J-15 series so it's not a SAC manufacturing issue. Might just be effect of new production lines getting into the groove.

 

[Tomboy]

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These LRIP batch J-35s need to lift their detail work to J-20's level. Look at the alignment of these radome discharge strips and where the canopy meets the perimeter. The other bits are from stealth tape to seal off the fuel probe compartment.

Overall the finish is pretty superb. Just not J-20 or F-35 level.

Compare to J-20.

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Everywhere else it's meeting the standard, especially fuselage sections and gaps but the J-20's canopy looks better made. Even the discharge strips on a J-10 radome is perfectly made. Same goes for J-16 and J-15 series so it's not a SAC manufacturing issue. Might just be effect of new production lines getting into the groove.

Or you know, use radomes with no diverter strips like the F-35... not sure why they are not using that

 

[ougoah]

Or you know, use radomes with no diverter strips like the F-35... not sure why they are not using that

It is a curious thing how the F-35 is the only fighter that does away with these strips. Every single fighter has them including F-22. If one looks at high resolution enough photos, literally every single 4th and 5th gen fighter except the F-35 feature these. I think it's a fairly trivial aspect so the approach is if it aint broke dont fix it. It doesn't really do much if anything to hinder stealth. It's also possibly still done as a redundancy.

 

[Tomboy]

@Stealthflanker

Hi, sorry to bother you but do you know whether diverter strips on radome will have a noticeable affect on RCS compared to one that doesn't?

 

[by78]

@Stealthflanker

Hi, sorry to bother you but do you know whether diverter strips on radome will have a noticeable affect on RCS compared to one that doesn't?

I don't understand why you're asking @Stealthflanker for opinions. He's demonstrably not an expert in anything I'm aware of, as evidenced by the highly entertaining exchanges seen here and here. Please keep content and interactions from pretend-experts away from the flagship threads.

 

[by78]

Self-explanatory.

 

[Schwerter_]

No, this is clearly the J-35. Both the J-35 and the J-35A have the 'Rescue' arrow (to the left of the pilot) and the heat exchangers on the root of both vertical stabs.

One of the ways you can tell them apart from this angle (besides the obvious blue-colored helmet) is the ram air intake, which is to the left of the pilot (same side as the 'Rescue' arrow) on the J-35 and to the right for the J-35A on all examples we have seen so far.

J-35 (Wanquanphoto) with the ram air intake on the base of both vertical stabs and the arrow pointing out of the DSI bump (albeit very faint):
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mb, I swear I looked at recent pictures of the naval J-35 and they did show only one inlet on the right side tho, must be one of the prototypes with the details not finalized

 

[BillRamengod]

 

[siegecrossbow]

From what I’ve heard the naval variant carries a gun but Air Force variant does not.

 

[00rinsak]

From what I’ve heard the naval variant carries a gun but Air Force variant does not.

heard the same, but the ram air intake now resides where the gun was expected to be

I guess it could have been moved to the other side of the fuselage (where the J-35A's ram air intake is) but there doesn't seem to be an gun port panel there from the recent hi-res photos I've seen here...