Posted on 12/29/2010 5:41:33 AM PST by Yo-Yo
More photos. The PLA has clearly been reading Air Power Australia, because this looks not unlike a stealth F-111.
It does look rather large........................
“The PLA has clearly been reading Air Power Australia, because this looks not unlike a stealth F-111.”
The only thing the Chinese need to read are the classified US documents that they clearly have had no trouble getting their hands on.
... there are many monkeys and parrots out there....
What the hell is a stealth F-111? This looks more like the a larger version of the F-22.
I don’t see the resemblance to the F-111 and I never thought the F-111 was a stealth plane??????
I was right not enough tail, so they added the underside strakes a-la the Lear 45 Series and the add on Strakes fot the Beech V-Tail Bonanza via an STC. They help at high alpha or so I read.
The Planform does not look like what was discussed here the other day a-la F101 Voodo., just tapered.
Notice the little but subtle Leading Edge Extension ( LEX ) from the wing to the Canard, it looks like a hard chine, again to create vortices's at high alpha.
From the rear end the lower strakes and pod it sits on is to busy, my guess not good for RCS.
Also notice the wing, a great deal of aero or geometric washout near the tip. I believe the Mirage's and the Concord did this with their Delta platforms, so this maybe more of a delta augmented by a canard and Ruddervators...
How much juice for this goose... What about the engines?
Are they copies of russian, french , british, or american?
Then again, fully flying rudders can be smaller than combo rudder/vertical stablizer. But they were huge on the FX-23 as they were for pitch and yaw. The F117’s were pretty good sized and they were for Yaw only or so we were told....
But remember that this is not an operational fighter, it is a technology demonstrator.
I have read elsewhere that the lower strakes will not be on the production aircraft. They also need to figure out a way to hinge the flaps without those large hinge fairings under the wing. Makes it look like the wing of a 737.
That plane looks like the Northrop Built F-23,The competitor to the F-22.
I wonder if the Chinese stole the plans.
The original pictures and blowng them up from Av Week helped.
Yes those fairings are huge. Flaps on a canard don't work if you will , They cause pitching moment down and I can't remember a Rutan design that had them on the main wing other than his "Grizzly" which was a three surface design.
Forward fuse from F-22
Rear fuse from the Mig-25
Vertical Stabs from the F-117
Canards from the X-29
Landing gear from the F-15
can’t tell the wing shape
Jack of all trades, master of none
My guess is the canard is a design compromise to give more pitch control at high angles of attack. This tells me they haven't figured out fly-by-wire quite yet. The canard also won't help the RCS a bit.
The Chinese will learn early on in this aircraft's first engagement with a foe that just because it looks like a stealth airplane doesn't mean it is a stealth airplane. There's a lot more to radar stealth than just shape....
This thing looks more and more like the HiMAT below...
The Canards Dihedral may shed a vortex off the tip onto a strategic spot on the main wing at a given AOA...
FIREFOX
But, we could probably get a hundred of them for the price of one F-22 if they'd sell em to us and loan us the money ...
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