Shenyang next gen combat aircraft thread
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Di you really think there are two variants of the J-XDS?
asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
How accurate are these ?
I think it’s been covered in one of the 6th gen fighter threads, tldr is that these don’t offer more insight than what we already know now and have a few inaccuracies like misidentifying the J-XDS’s AMWs as drop-down wingtips
That second image makes it look like a single seater with sunken-in cockpit IMO. The glass area appears too small and shallow, even when you consider the angle of the photo.
I have a very strong feeling that it is due to aerodynamic reasons especially related to the intake being "two inlets with single bump" and demand of inlet tip covering the bump at a specific distance. Also the groove would have great impact to the deeper groove between engines.
Remember the tiny change of LERX from J-20 200x to 201x? It was so tiny in size but so big to the vertox on the wings. A tiny groove may be shallow in depth but may have a great impact in aerodynamic performance.
i confess its difficult for me to reconcile this cockpit profile with what we saw in the earlier image.
I think this picture might be more representative than previous ones in regard to the cockpit. These new gen planes' have really pronounced chines that obscure the cockpit from many downward angles.
Due to the lighting the cockpit looks greyed out.