Posted on 10/30/2015 4:17:03 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
No it doesn’t. Not even close.
Really? I was going to say it looks like a JF-17.
Tail looks nothing like an F-16 and lost of planes have a nose similar to an F-4.
The stab does to me.
Nothing we have now has an F4 shnozz
‘We’? Who cares. US flown fighters are a tiny fraction what has been built and even what is in current service. People make ridiculous stretches on these threads to liken every foreign plane to something American. It gets down right silly.
If you really want to go there it looks like a T-38 and an F3 had a love child.
If you have ever had to design something, anything, you will very quickly learn it is far easier to copy and modify a known product than to start drawing lines on a blank piece of paper.
Ever met any aero design engineers? They do not design the whole plane, they design parts of the plane, sometimes very minute parts, and that is all. Then another team puts it all together, and yet another team engineers it so stuff will work and can be manufactured.
You got hinge guys, trunion guys, canopy guys, landing gear guys, fuel system guys, etc., etc. And that is just the airframe, engines and avionics are their own stories.
Yes, lots of stuff is copied and morphed into the final product.
Even in the F35, you can reach deep into the beast and find parts designed 30 years ago.
I am an engineer in the aerospace industry. I have done work on the F-35. The only parts you are likely to find in there that are reused are pretty darn small. Not the whole nose.
The nose of the F-4 is dictated by the radar under that radome. I kinda doubt that plane has the same radar.
It amuses me.
And if you really want a comparison, a single tailfin analog of the Taiwanese ADIC F-K-1C orks for me.
Well, it should since the JF-17 was also derived from an upgrade project for the J-7!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Sabre_II
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