J-35 carrier fighter (PLAN) thread

Blitzo

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by78 said:
The thread title says it all. A J-XY based on the FC-31 is probable but not certain, that's my understanding anyway. As to whether this paper has to do with that conversion or an exercise in a clean sheet design, that's anybody's guess.
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Considering it's from Shenyang, and considering the elements of the models cannot be for J-20 (e.g.: no canard in the position behind the DSI air intake lip), and the specifics regarding the "before" and "after" aspects that are described, I think the chances of this being a "before" (FC-31) and "after" (J-XY) are not low at all.

And of course, this paper would be the one that @Interstellar talked about here:

Shenyang FC-31 / J-31 Fighter Demonstrator

F-35 has no choice, there's a great huge lift fan and doors that need to open up behind the cockpit. Personally I don't think that image is high quality enough to be making these observations and I expect no change from what we've seen so far. That might be the case but KF-21 and AMCA have...
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by78

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Bltizo said:
Considering it's from Shenyang, and considering the elements of the models cannot be for J-20 (e.g.: no canard in the position behind the DSI air intake lip), and the specifics regarding the "before" and "after" aspects that are described, I think the chances of this being a "before" (FC-31) and "after" (J-XY) are not low at all.

And of course, this paper would be the one that @Interstellar talked about here:

Shenyang FC-31 / J-31 Fighter Demonstrator

F-35 has no choice, there's a great huge lift fan and doors that need to open up behind the cockpit. Personally I don't think that image is high quality enough to be making these observations and I expect no change from what we've seen so far. That might be the case but KF-21 and AMCA have...
www.sinodefenceforum.com
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Before I saw your reply, I had edited my post to point out that some illustrations from the paper show existing fuselage features of FC-31.
 
AssassinsMace

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The tailfins do look different. They no longer look swept back like on the F-35 and it looks like half but bigger of the triangular shaped ones on the original "J-21" tailfins.
 
Blitzo

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AssassinsMace said:
The tailfins do look different. They no longer look swept back like on the F-35 and it looks like half but bigger of the triangular shaped ones on the original "J-21" tailfins.
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Nomenclature alert.

There is no "original J-21" -- instead I think you are referring to FC-31 v1.
(J-21 might be the name of the land based J-XY/J-35 variant, but that has yet to be determined, and I suspect that's not what you're referring to)

The entire model is broadly depicting the FC-31 31001 airframe, aka FC-31 v1.
The FC-31 31003 airframe, aka FC-31 v2 is the one with the swept back tails that are clipped, etc


.... In any case, the model itself is not very interesting, because it just looks like n FC-31 v1 model of average quality and average detail.
The model is not J-XY/J-35/whatever its name will end up being.
 
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