PLA next/6th generation fighter thread

[coolgod]

BTW, we gotta thank the MSS too. Without them we'd be getting a bunch of photos ruined by watermarks.

 

[constalation]

So is it safe to assume these aircraft are currently in competition for the sixth generation fighter? Or are they two different types of sixth generation aircraft?

Two different types.
Chengdu - CAG - Big Dorito: Fighter Bomber. 3 Engines.
Shengyang - SAG - Air to Air and Superiority Fighter with a possible naval component. 2 Engines.

 

[tygyg1111]

Americans are very practiced at cope by now.

If it was the other way around:

"selecting a single engine design does make you think about their aero production capacity"

 

[ACuriousPLAFan]

Here's another candidate for the worst ever timing to post a tweet (not even 2 hours before the first photos of J-XDC came out):

 

[banjex]

Would you look at that. A spineless coward immediately twisting the trijet design to a more favourable narrative.

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At least one mod here did caution along the same lines when the rumors first appeared

 

[enroger]

Shot of nice res.
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I can barely make out the weapon bay, looks like a long strip in the middle and two shorter strips on the sides. I'm guessing a long and deep bay in the middle for real heavy ordinance like AShm and the shorter bay for a2a

 

[sheogorath]

Gorgeous Dorito, though I could do with a longer/thicker nose.

Congrats on these milestones and certainly a testament to the OPSEC of the projects that the tri-jet idea was kept quiet for so long and that SAC's frame came basically out of the blue.

Im enjoying all the copium emanating from the Muskrat's shithole.

Would you look at that. A spineless coward immediately twisting the trijet design to a more favourable narrative.

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Its funny seeing them squirm.

Another one is "well, we have had NGAD frames flying since 2018" and you have nothing to show for it, boy. Congrats on playing yourselves

 

[siegecrossbow]

Here's another candidate for the worst ever timing to post a tweet (not even 2 hours before the first photos of J-XDC came out):

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The one on the right looks like a ripoff of the SAC sixth gen.

 

[Biscuits]

A guy went to jail over this. We ought to honor his martyrdom by poring over every detail of this picture.

Cmon not jail, likely they just ask some questions and put him on a watchlist. At most his house gets searched.

And tbf the police is just doing their job, how else would you know the person with a comically large camera, maybe climbing on some tree, isn't a spy?

If it was the other way around:

"selecting a single engine design does make you think about their aero production capacity"

US selecting the 0 engine and indeed 0 fixed design at all for the current NGAD does make you think about... Well everything really *shrugs

At least one mod here did caution along the same lines when the rumors first appeared

I guess the Shenyang aircraft exists solely to splash cold water on morons like that, maybe it doesn't even have any function at all aside from proving that

 

[sevrent]

The one on the right looks like a ripoff of the SAC sixth gen.

It’s a concept art one guy makes for fun as a hobby I wouldn’t knock it lol. If anything congrats to him for making such realistic concepts