what is that??
According to the author a WS10A with adapter structure to fit into a fuselage designed for WS15, he speculated that TS=特殊=special.
what is that??
According to the author a WS10A with adapter structure to fit into a fuselage designed for WS15, he speculated that TS=特殊=special.
hmmm ... Looks too much pak-fa-like to me ...
Anyway, it's my birthday tomorrow and as such i think i have a wish for free ....
deino
So the J-19 will not have supercruise ability?
Frankly i wonder if this project exist really or it is a bs?
The main u/c members are very far aft, it looks awful.Surely again psed ... but something like that would be nice !
No 601 already lost the heavy air superiority fighter competition to 611, what they are working now is 中四 or medium 4th gen fighter, that is a medium size multirole stealth strike fighter for both PLAAF and PLANAF. If it indeed use WS10A and later WS15 then it'll be a single engine plane.
A single engine stealth multirole figther is a very bad idea. The weapons load will be very low.
It is strange that all the cgi we are seeing about J-19 show two engine fighter.
Not really. A stealth striker will want to carry it's weapons internally to maximise stealth. But that greatly limits how much ordinance such a plane can carry on a typical mission. Thus relatively low weapons load would not be a deal-breaker as it were. In addition, having a single engine could potentially leaver greater internal volume for weapons bays to allow a bigger bomb load compared to a twin engined plane.
Single engined would also greatly reduce the size and cost of such a striker.
I know it seems paradoxical for a striker to be smaller than a fighter, but fifth gens are expensive, and if the PLAAF is going to buy a useful number of J20s, they are not going to have all that much cash left for another stealth striker, so a lower cost would increase the chances of the PLAAF buying into the design.
Unlike the USAF, the PLAAF is not going to go all fifth gen, so after stealth strikers have sufficiently degraded enemy air defences enough to start thinking about external stores, you might as well start to use dedicated bomb trucks like MKKs, JH7As and J11BS etc.
Erm I'm sorry but isn't it usually the bigger the plane the bigger the internal volume? F-35 may have an internal volume/bomb load approaching that of F-22 but that's because of differing roles. A twin engined striker designed from the outset to maximise internal volume will almost exceed a single engined striker in that aspect?
I feel that last part is why PLAAF should think about going heavy 5th gen, twin engine striker with longer range and greater capability than single engined strikers ala F-35. PLAAF, like PLAN are looking to expand their reach in future. PLAAF MKKs and JH-7As already have decent combat radii and a future stealthy striker should go to match that while hoisting a similar payload. A single engined plane isn't going to cut it without aerial refuelling, and/or compromising internal payload.
PLAAF aren't going to be acquiring a full 5th gen fleet, realistically ever imo, so it might be wiser to have a limited production run of highly capable, long range stealth strikers (think a strike PAK FA) rather than single engined, shorter legged F-35 like planes. The long legged strikers would only be produced in a limited number, maybe 4,5 regiments worth, and will be used as "first day door breakers" in the event of a conflict by targeting high value assets and or IADS nodes where other planes couldn't go. Then send in the rest of the striker fleet of MKKs, JH-7s and J-16s.
I'd like to know where the idea of the SAC stealth aircraft being a single engined fighter came from, for the last year the consensus was SAC was developing a stealth striker based on their failed J-XX proposal called J-19, and CAC was looking into a single engined fighter ala F-35 being dubbed J-2X? The consensus could change of course, but going from twin engined to single engined is quite drastic...
We'll see I suppose.