Sourced from r/aviation. Unclear if it’s 100% real or not, but this is a thing of beauty if it is.
Why did they make the face so cute :>
Considering it’ll likely get less exports than the F-35 we’ll probably not learn much about its performance that the Chinese govt doesn’t want us to know. Still, it looks way more aggressively optimised for RCS than the F-35 in regards to its fuselage design. Looks a lot like some of the American stealth bombers versus a multirole fighter.
The pancake-ification of stealth aircraft makes me wonder, though. Does this not give you a massive radar cross section at adverse angles to incoming radar? You might benefit on the entry into enemy air space but making turns will light you up immediately. Then there’s the question of potentially placing radar arrays at wide angles (for example, using AWAACS to loiter radar above the expected ceiling of incoming aircraft) so you fly right under or over detection systems
Does this not give you a massive radar cross section at adverse angles to incoming radar?
Then there’s the question of potentially placing radar arrays at wide angles
My layman understand is that Ansar Allah did something similar to this +tracking exhaust heat to get close to hitting the F-35? Comrade @MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net does that sound right?
I wonder if they also studied how the Serbs shot down nighthawks back in the day. I imagine the yankees also fell into making the same mistakes under the assumption of superiority too.
6th gen fighers won’t be for export, the J-20 is not for export, the J-35A which is like a twin engine F-35 (Trump likes J-35 lol) is gonna be exported to Pakistan.
the cool thing about this one, is that it uses 3 engines, which means it’s gonna have a very powerful radar and Electronic Warfare capabilities. It’s game over for any American AWACS and Tankers.
Omg it is sexy.
This just looks like a stealth Su-34 or F-111 type strike fighter, or a rear line asset, a mini AWACS if you will, with the third engine powering a bunch of ASEA radar arrays and electronic warfare systems, also maybe a head controller of collaborative combat aircraft (highly advanced UCAVs). It’s not going to be a frontline fighter jet, it’s weapons bays are same size as the B-21s! The 5.5 or 6th generation fighter jet is the J-50. If the sensors are equivalent to those on the P-8 Poseidon, it could also make a good anti submarine warfare aircraft, something not talked about often, and quite critical to China countering the US Navy.
Could also see it as the Chinese response to the B-21 (which can also be loaded up with air to air missiles in a stealth missile truck configuration), probably why they’re getting it up and running so quickly and made the compromise on the third engine, which is required to run all the sensors, two engines don’t deliver enough power yet.
Thank you
Paging @MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net for your analysis on this airframe
