i'm sure part of it is. I found out they just identified a 3rd production base. I'm not sure what the non-aerospace demand is for meta material, because doing 10 to 20x increase in production over 5 to 7 years is pretty insane.
J-35A fighter (PLAAF) + FC-31 thread
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SinoSoldier
Colonel
Has this angle of the J-35A been posted? Horizontal fins and engine nozzles suggest that this is the "second" prototype with DAS installed. The challenge now is to guesstimate the location of the gun port, if it exists at all.
Does anyone have access to a higher-resolution version of this photo?
Does anyone have access to a higher-resolution version of this photo?
Pretty sure that was Pakistan itself getting tired of having him around.
By that logic it's not safe for US to send F-35 to NATO either, given how much more porous NATO defenses have been in the other direction.
So the interesting thing is that it was years ago they did anything inside Iran to Iranians, and those were nuclear scientists. You'd think that with the ongoing porcupine concept based on missiles, missile defense and drone construction, it would be in Israel's extreme interest to get even 1 or 2 rocket, drone or electronics scientist. Or key workers in those industries.
The truth is that we have no particular desire to see Iran nuclearised, and at the same time, it seems that the security of important Vips that matter to us is untouchable, which a J-35 maintenence staff would be. In any case, Iran's porcupine strategy needs to be further expanded first, probably at the very least they must get the J-10C to learn how to operate modern planes with CEC.
It's not taking risks larger than US did by sending F-35 to select countries.
I think a simple way to handle this is to build monkey models. Think the T-72M, a downgraded model designed for export. I'd imagine if China is selling 5th gens to countries like SA or Egypt, the avionics can be easily downgraded. Or just remove certain functions like the F-15SA.
Remember the J-35 is still in LRIP so it is still comparatively expensive.
Give it a few years and a J-35A might get to $50-60 Mn
Footage photos of J-35A during test flights. Posted by @沉默的山羊 on Weibo.
Wow!! What a beauty! Very smooth and barely any panel lines - still hard to tell if it has a gun or not because of that! Chinese manufacturing really has come a long way.
You can see the 2 holes on the head rest behind the pilot is missing the sensors for HMD. Obviously tells us this is a prototype and probably missing more features compared to the final version. This makes me more confident the final one will definitely have EODAS.
Just a nice image, nothing more.
And I'm pretty sure some fan boys from a certain region will imdeatly claim: "look, smoking engines ... never a 5th generation fighter & Rafale is anyway better!"
by78
General
J-35 will certainly have 'smoke-less' engines, but those fanboys will never have indoor plumbing.
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