PaulMM said:Engines aren't fitted - see the big gap around them. Possibly missing actuators, petals etc.
I am sorry, jumped the gun. However, the logo (eagle) is present on the model on first page. I would say it has something to do with its name/nick. JL-9 has an eagle on the nose for example, and is called mountain eagle. If this is navy bird, maybe it is "Sea Eagle"? ;Dchuck4 said:The logo looks like an eagle on top of a shield. Is it the manufacturer's logo?
dark sidius said:Its very beautyful plane, USAF must start launching th 6th gen fighters
1st503rdSGT said:Is that a long, central weapons bay I see partly open along the bottom?
1st503rdSGT said:Aaaawe, cute. Finally got the plane that he wanted. He should learn Chinese and write for their magazines.
And if you wonder about the detail similarities of the shape to the F-22 and F-35, remember this quote from 2010:
In the past year (2009) alone, Lockheed Martin found “six to eight companies” among its subcontractors “had been totally compromised – emails, their networks, everything” according to Lockheed Martin chief information security officer Anne Mullins.
Sundog said:1st503rdSGT said:Aaaawe, cute. Finally got the plane that he wanted. He should learn Chinese and write for their magazines.
His analysis is spot on.
Sundog said:1st503rdSGT said:Aaaawe, cute. Finally got the plane that he wanted. He should learn Chinese and write for their magazines.
His analysis is spot on.
TaiidanTomcat said:Sundog said:1st503rdSGT said:Aaaawe, cute. Finally got the plane that he wanted. He should learn Chinese and write for their magazines.
His analysis is spot on.
How does one prove that?
Sundog said:TaiidanTomcat said:Sundog said:1st503rdSGT said:Aaaawe, cute. Finally got the plane that he wanted. He should learn Chinese and write for their magazines.
His analysis is spot on.
How does one prove that?
By knowing Aeronautical Engineering. It's not something one proves as much as something one understands. Or to put it another way, everything he said was aeronautically true and it's a known fact that it was the STOVL requirement that made the F-35 a single engined aircraft. It's also a well known fact that U.S. Navy prefers twin engined aircraft over single engined aircraft, which is why they went with the YF-17 instead of the YF-16 to make their new fighter from in the 70's.
Sundog said:By knowing Aeronautical Engineering. It's not something one proves as much as something one understands.
Sundog said:from in the 70's.
DonaldM said:Will China produce the Shenyang J-21/J-31, or perhaps even the Chengdu J-20, for export?
Images of a new fighter aircraft resembling the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter have appeared on Chinese defence sites.
The images were reportedly taken at the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation airfield and appeared over the weekend of 15-16 September 2012.
A possible designation for the aircraft is J-21. Chinese defence sites, however, variously give the designation as the J-21, J-31 or F-60. In the absence of an official announcement, it is difficult ascertain the new aircraft's official designation.
As with the F-22 and F-35, the J-21 features canted twin tails, a key design feature of low observable aircraft. A single grainy head-on shot shows widely-spaced intakes, similar in appearance to the F-35.
One clear difference from the F-35 is the presence of two engines. Chinese observers speculate that these are Klimov RD-93s, the powerplant used in the Chengdu/Pakistan Aeronautical Complex JF-17 fighter.
The aircraft also lacks the thrust-vectoring nozzles found on the F-22. No accommodation appears to exist for short take off vertical landing (STOVL) capability.
Based on the J-21's relative size compared with a truck parked nearby in one of the pictures, the aircraft is considerably smaller than the Chengdu J-20, photos of which emerged in similar fashion in late 2010.
There are two other key differences. The J-20 has large canards, which experts have said are not in keeping with a low observable radar cross section. Instead of canards, the J-21 has a tail plane similar to that of the F-22 and F-35.
Another difference is the presence of a twin nose wheel. Twin nose wheels are common on fighters that operate from aircraft carriers, such as the Dassault Rafale, Sukhoi Su-33 and Lockheed Martin F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet. Nonetheless, twin nose wheels are also found on Chinese types such as the Chengdu J-10, which has no apparent carrier role.
While China has no operational aircraft carriers, it has been conducting sea trials with the Varyag, a former Soviet flat-top.
Based on early images, the J-21 would appear to be a more nimble aircraft than the J-20, suggesting it is optimised for the air superiority mission. Some experts have suggested that the large J-20 is not intended as a fighter, but as a long-range attack aircraft.
The emergence of the pictures coincides with protests in Chinese cities over a territorial dispute with Japan over a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea. US defence secretary Leon Panetta will also visit China this week. The first flight of the J-20 took place on 11 January 2011, during a visit to China by Panetta's predecessor, Robert Gates.
1st503rdSGT said:...being the #-##'s (that which shall not be named : )...
Deino said:
chuck4 said:Since the radom is usually unpainted, i think the striking difference in color between the radom and the rest of the plane probably reveal the intended base color of the aircraft in service.
So does anyone have any idea whether the color of the Radom matches typical Chinese Airforce or navy colors?
Btw, one has to be somewhat impressed with the bandwidth of Chinese military aircraft design establishments. They are simultaneously working on similar stages of development on at least 2 G5 fighters, while probably still in the development stage of the Su-33 knockoff, as well as another rumored highly evolved stealthy development of the su-27 family, on top of another rumored highly evolved version of jf-17. Their ability to simultaneously push ahead with multiple large projects would seem to me to almost resemble the superpowers during early cold war, and definitely stronger than any other country has demonstrated in the last 20 years.
1st503rdSGT said:chuck4 said:Since the radom is usually unpainted, i think the striking difference in color between the radom and the rest of the plane probably reveal the intended base color of the aircraft in service.
So does anyone have any idea whether the color of the Radom matches typical Chinese Airforce or navy colors?
Btw, one has to be somewhat impressed with the bandwidth of Chinese military aircraft design establishments. They are simultaneously working on similar stages of development on at least 2 G5 fighters, while probably still in the development stage of the Su-33 knockoff, as well as another rumored highly evolved stealthy development of the su-27 family, on top of another rumored highly evolved version of jf-17. Their ability to simultaneously push ahead with multiple large projects would seem to me to almost resemble the superpowers during early cold war, and definitely stronger than any other country has demonstrated in the last 20 years.
Almost as impressive as the US developing/producing four G5 and three G4 fighters at once until recently (one of the G5s has been dropped from production though).
chuck4 said:1st503rdSGT said:chuck4 said:Since the radom is usually unpainted, i think the striking difference in color between the radom and the rest of the plane probably reveal the intended base color of the aircraft in service.
So does anyone have any idea whether the color of the Radom matches typical Chinese Airforce or navy colors?
Btw, one has to be somewhat impressed with the bandwidth of Chinese military aircraft design establishments. They are simultaneously working on similar stages of development on at least 2 G5 fighters, while probably still in the development stage of the Su-33 knockoff, as well as another rumored highly evolved stealthy development of the su-27 family, on top of another rumored highly evolved version of jf-17. Their ability to simultaneously push ahead with multiple large projects would seem to me to almost resemble the superpowers during early cold war, and definitely stronger than any other country has demonstrated in the last 20 years.
Almost as impressive as the US developing/producing four G5 and three G4 fighters at once until recently (one of the G5s has been dropped from production though).
By my count, the most the US managed more or less simultaneously during the last 20 years was 1 ground up g5 development program, and 1 not really ground up g4 development program.