Yes.
Why does he speculate the gross weight to be 25t? That seems a bit small doesn't it? Haven't we seen it to be roughly flanker sized, he seemingly likened it to a Eurofighter typhoon.From Bill Sweetman
China’s other new combat aircraft: a crewed fighter, maybe for aircraft carriers | The Strategist
Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group’s J-36 scooped up most of the publicity around China’s late-December revelations, but a second combat type, one from Shenyang Aircraft and referred to for now as J-XX, was revealed at the ...www.aspistrategist.org.au
The same kind of rhetoric was said for the J-20 ages ago. Time's a flat circle I suppose.
Better stealth than a plane which would have greater accent on maneuverability than j36, with all other requirements and variables (so other than maneuverability and stealth) being equal.
Exactly.
Not by me, nor probably by any of the posters here.
Well, it's not on ground, so zero pressure that way, but there'll be aerodynamic pressure from hanging there in the slipstream, and potential mechanical pressure depending on what's pushing on what internally.
Side detection could potentially be far larger if the sensors are mounted on a gimble to allow movement...
If there are going to be sensors mounted in there they will most likely be mounted on gimbals. I also have probably assumed the sensor size to be much bigger because of the resolution of the image, however if the windows in the drawing are fairly accurate then there's not much wiggle room to cram more FOV especially in the frontal arc. I'd have mounted the IRSTs on the top and bottom of the nose to allow for a much bigger FOV and targeting arc but I'm not sure as to what else they have in mind for the J-36's windows if not for binocular IRST sensors.
The sensors are about 2m apart and with accurate enough optronics they very well might be able to generate tracks with low single digit meter precision in good conditions, if not less. They're probably going to be accurate enough for a modern active radar homing missile to be able to close in and then use its onboard radar to go pitbull. Plus with the size of the thing it should be able to accommodate two IRST sensors, it surely seems to have the power for them.
A 40' target at 30 miles is only 0.0144 degrees wide.
I thought those were farther apart than that, though I admit I didn't pixel-count.
If a radar is installed at the nose position, the diameter may exceed 2 meters. This is a big RCS
Physical size of airframe has very little to do with radar cross section. You can make small objects reflect a lot of energy and you can make large objects reflect very little.
we are talking about nose radar here. The shape and structure of nose radar in all countries are similar, and it is not possible to do stealth modification
after everyone has done so, RCS only depends on the area.
If you've got the bulkhead and antenna angled correctly, the total amount being reflected back towards the emitter is zero.
The single machine head discussed here. You can't always maintain the correct direction.
That statement says you don't understand stealth.
This is just a roast sentence, origin is "忠诚不绝对，就是绝对不忠诚"
Look up "frequency selective radome" for starters and stop pronouncing on matters you're clearly underinformed on please.
AESA itself is not invisible.
