JF-17/FC-1 Fighter Aircraft thread
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asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
Block 4?
They are certainly looking ways to reduce radar reflections off the rim of the radome. Would be interesting to see what they can do with the cockpit.
Fan Made.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
Old picture posted long ago and debunked.
Stealth aircraft need to be designed from the ground up as such to achieve optimal LO effectiveness.
Just replacing metal parts with composites could have the opposite effect of reducing RCS if that allows incoming radar to hit more reflective surfaces inside the airframe.
The time, effort and money needed to make JF17 LO would be comparable if not on par with designing a medium weight stealth fighter form scratch.
And even if you manage it, you still cannot get away from physics, so you would end up with a JF17 stealth that has really limited internal weapons load and/or very poor range because it is sacrificing significant internal volume for weapons bays at the expense of fuel.
Stealth aircraft need to be designed from the ground up as such to achieve optimal LO effectiveness.
Just replacing metal parts with composites could have the opposite effect of reducing RCS if that allows incoming radar to hit more reflective surfaces inside the airframe.
The time, effort and money needed to make JF17 LO would be comparable if not on par with designing a medium weight stealth fighter form scratch.
And even if you manage it, you still cannot get away from physics, so you would end up with a JF17 stealth that has really limited internal weapons load and/or very poor range because it is sacrificing significant internal volume for weapons bays at the expense of fuel.
Please not again this lame old story ... it was already posted so often, including here.
It is a fan-made model and the model maker, a military enthusiast named “yes413” even admitted himself that he made that before 2016 just for fun:
I really don't understand why some still think this is real and even more why discussing this again and again.
To admit, my post was neither aggressive nor rude, it was only clear since this stupid image was posted and discussed already so often and indeed I find it annoying that some peoples still believe in such BS, post it without checking the background or facts.
Just a right-click and "image search" with Google would show you several posts, ... and also common sense would help.
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Pakistan's Inter Services Public Relations Pakistan (ISPR) released a brief video of the COAS visiting PAC at Kamra. Quite interesting there is a JF-17 single seater as well as a JF-17B (?) in the background ... strange however is its construction number.
asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
but I would like to see the following
ZDK-03 AWACS
flanked by 2 x JF17B WITH IFR I know PAC has fitted them to their Two seater aircraft
then flanked by 4 more JF17 Block 3
now that would be awesome
23rd March 2020 I expect nothing less
JF17B is a big new comer
and so is B3
ZDK-03 AWACS
flanked by 2 x JF17B WITH IFR I know PAC has fitted them to their Two seater aircraft
then flanked by 4 more JF17 Block 3
now that would be awesome
23rd March 2020 I expect nothing less
JF17B is a big new comer
and so is B3