Is it bigger than J-15?
SAC developing VTOL stealth fighter, called "Snowy Owl"
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Not really if you have the right aircraft engines and catapaults and procedures, you can launch large aircraft off of a carrier successfully.
Consider the A-5 Vigilante that the US Navy routinely launched off of its large carriers in the 60s and 70s.
Compare it in this picture to the F-8 Crusader to the right, the air superiority fighter of the day (and not a small aircraft itself) and the A-4 Skyhawk to the left (on the cat) the smaller attack aircraft.
These were large long range bomber and recon aircraft the US Navy employed back then. Larger than the J-20.
Also, the A-3 Skywarrior, equally large, was used in the same time frame and extending into the 1980s off of the carrier decks.
So, large aircraft, larger than the J-20, can operate off of a carrier if properly equipped.
Consider the A-5 Vigilante that the US Navy routinely launched off of its large carriers in the 60s and 70s.
Compare it in this picture to the F-8 Crusader to the right, the air superiority fighter of the day (and not a small aircraft itself) and the A-4 Skyhawk to the left (on the cat) the smaller attack aircraft.
These were large long range bomber and recon aircraft the US Navy employed back then. Larger than the J-20.
Also, the A-3 Skywarrior, equally large, was used in the same time frame and extending into the 1980s off of the carrier decks.
So, large aircraft, larger than the J-20, can operate off of a carrier if properly equipped.
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I do not see any characteristics that would make me believe it is VTOL capable.
Those nozzels would have to be able to rotate downward, and there should be a large area for a vertical fan of some type.
Here's the VTOL J-35B in operation. Notice the engine nozzle at the rear and the fam behind the conckpit.
The were initially built around 1960 and used during the 'sixties. Attrition replacements were built '68-'70.Not really if you have the right aircraft engines and catapaults and procedures, you can launch large aircraft off of a carrier successfully.
Consider the A-5 Vigilante that the US Navy routinely launched off of its large carriers in the 70s and 80s.
Compare it in this picture to the F-8 Crusader to the right, the air superiority fighter of the day (and not a small aircraft itself) and the A-4 Skyhawk to the left (on the cat) the smaller attack aircraft.
These were large long range bomber and recon aircraft the US Navy employed back then. Larger than the J-20.
You are correct. The Vigilante ended its service on the carriers at the end of the 1970s and did not extend into the 1980s. I was thinking of the Skywarrior (also a very large aircraft) which as an attack andtanker aircraft did extend into the eighties.
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SinoSoldier
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It looks like the F-35 from the front.
I actually have a suspected AVIC model of this
Lol that's why you need to see whether your sources are credible.
That mock up is actually of Lockheed origin and was to be a similar role with the current F-35... And the fact remains the article is contradictory and probably fully BS.
Besides, the picture of the Lockheed JAST porposal you posted isn't a triplane configuration either, it's delta/canard.
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SinoSoldier
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I do not see any characteristics that would make me believe it is VTOL capable.
Those nozzels would have to be able to rotate downward, and there should be a large area for a vertical fan of some type.
Here's the VTOL J-35B in operation. Notice the engine nozzle at the rear and the fam behind the conckpit.
The article did not say that it doesn't have all of the above features.
The article doesn't provide every single detail
That article did show a picture of the F-35 and a fanboy drawing of the supposed snowy owl which looks like a stealthy Su-33 or Su-35... The fact they showed such a plane which obviously won't have the VSTOL features they listed shows incompetence, not to mention labelling the snowy owl as "J-15" while everyone knwos the J-15 is the Chinese naval flanker.
And we haven't seen any pictures of the supposed state tv showing the image of the "snowy owl" either, and the lack of details further augments my conclusion that this article and this news site is both BS and unreliable, respectively.
SinoSoldier
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The fanboy CGI was around much longer than the article. They simply used it as a reference picture.
J-15 is a designation given by fanboys. We don't know the true designation for the naval Flanker. For all we know it could be J-11C.
Whenever you watch TV, do you have a camera at the ready? It's not like CCTV will replay the frame over and over again.