PLA next/6th generation fighter thread

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valysre

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latenlazy said:
The same way all planes do...since all electric power comes from the plane's engines? The jet engine isn't exactly an added problem for heat management either since it's technically a very good heat dump, so long as you design the heat exchangers to use the engine as such (which is how thermal management is already done).
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Interesting. I had thought it was more complicated than that, considering the F35's difficulties with cooling systems.
 
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latenlazy

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valysre said:
Interesting. I had thought it was more complicated than that, considering the F35's difficulties with cooling systems.
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That's a design requirements issue. They didn't build enough electrical and heat exchange capacity for the electrical systems they ended up trying to install into the design. The engine was running harder just to generate the electric power needed to run their workaround solutions.
 
Blitzo

Blitzo

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IMO let's just wait either for the first real picture (inevitably going to be heavily blurred and obscured), or for an eventual eye witness to do a poor quality sketch of what they see, once the thing is eventually unveiled.

Obvious photoshops of it "flying" or going back to random "generic next gen AVIC silhouettes or concept art" is below us at this point.



Time to git gud.
 
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