J-XY/J-35 carrier-borne fighter thread
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It also shown the weapon elevators open.
It certainly looks too short. The distance between the vertical stabilizers and the canopy is a bit odd.
PeoplesPoster
Junior Member
We've never really seen an image of the 35 from the top before, could very well be this wide.
I'm guessing that since the JL-10J mock-up doesn't have the wings folded, the real thing won't have foldable wings either?.
I don't think the T-45 has folding wings either. Carriers on training duties are much less deck space sensitive on top of the trainers being smaller planes. From the photos the JL-10J is barely wider than the J-15B folded and is also much shorter.
Yeah, the T-45 doesn't so I guess it makes sense.
It's probably just the photo angle.
When we've had aerial photos taken of the mockup before it had looked correctly proportioned.
I wouldn't read till much into it.
The purpose of these mock-ups is that overall proportions and dimensions should be correct to enable simulating basic handling on the ship, so I doubt they'd get those large scale things wrong.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Huitong is saying it’s a full scale mock-up.