I think those are intended to be LEX for enhancing lift at high AOA, but I doubt that it would look as pronounced as it does in the CGI art.
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I think those are intended to be LEX for enhancing lift at high AOA, but I doubt that it would look as pronounced as it does in the CGI art.
There is some room under the roof of the inlets. Perhaps a reverse situation of when the J-20 got its inlets shrunk will happen?
Right. My point is that it probably wouldn’t jut out in the odd angle like it does in the cgi model.
The rear landing gears are in some strange position for a wide center weapon bay. Does it have 2 small side bays and a long center one between the engines like Su-57 ?Today is a great day
It has two in tandem weaponsbays and two side ones like F-22/J-20.
Yes. It is unique in the sense that it has a long center bay despite having a similar belly configuration to the F-22.
There are two optical windows on the nose of the aircraft — one above and one below. I believe the top one is used to aerial engagement (rear aspect appears to be opaque like it does on J-20’s EOTS). The one below the nose has 360 transparency and will be used against ground based assets. If we are given more close ups I will be able to tell whether there are DAS windows distributed around the fuselage. Both sensors are faceted, which will provide superior signature reduction compared with spherical IRST on KF-X and Su-57 which will contribute to creeping wave.
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Well the Japanese were also working on designs with similar IWB concepts but this is the only design around the world that actually materialised.
If you actually watch the video you'll see that this CGI mistake in that particular frame doesn't even exist in other frames of the video. It's literally a bad CGI job on the animator's part. I'm not even talking about the fact that such a design would really affect the signature negatively.
It's just that Sequ sometimes claims such illogical things around here like MMU being equipped with WS-10C or AL-31FN engines, or even TR having interest in J-10Cs, etc.
it's simply a silly little detail, can we get back to the topic please?
I just realized that the pitot is there all along. A bit unusual for a prototype to have this instead of the nose-pitot typically seen on other fifth gen prototypes. I have a nagging suspicion that the plane is further along in development than many have suspected.
One thing I found odd is the lack of sawtooth structure on the landing gear bay cover. Both radar cover and the side bay have them. Perhaps they'll change the design in a later iteration.
There is another one on the other side too.