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Shenyang next gen combat aircraft thread
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Drawing this plane is so annoyingly hard from the few blurry photos we have. I've had to redraw the intake fuselage multiple times because from different angles they look longer or shorter. After referencing the one clean-ish side profile picture I think I've got a better drawing, (Note, everything above the chine line is pure speculation).
I'm still a firm non-believer of a centerline weapons bay. I'm also working on my own 3d model.
I'm still a firm non-believer of a centerline weapons bay. I'm also working on my own 3d model.
New photo(s) of the J-XDS underside.
Maybe its less of a "belly groove" and more of a depression? But I don't know what the benefit or compromise for having one would be.
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Looks like the inboard flaps might be split too?
Fantastic I wish I had this 4 hours earlier
Yeah it is lookin g like the YF-23 type of a “dip” between engines.
One thing I can note is that this thing probably utilises supercirculation lift pretty darn effectively like the Raptor.
The flat rectangular vectoring exhausts seemingly sit only a few percent of chord behind the wing’s trailing edge. That tight chordwise offset is ideal for circulation control. Any high‑energy flow issuing from those nozzles (especially when deflecting) can more readily re‑energize the boundary layer over the flap/wing junction and “wrap” around the wing’s bound vortex. Pretty sure that's how it works on the Raptor, except it has the nozzles beyond the trailing edge and this has the nozzles behind.
The flat rectangular vectoring exhausts seemingly sit only a few percent of chord behind the wing’s trailing edge. That tight chordwise offset is ideal for circulation control. Any high‑energy flow issuing from those nozzles (especially when deflecting) can more readily re‑energize the boundary layer over the flap/wing junction and “wrap” around the wing’s bound vortex. Pretty sure that's how it works on the Raptor, except it has the nozzles beyond the trailing edge and this has the nozzles behind.
