Chinese VTOL aircraft

I heard it was just the institute's own project. If this is just to prove that you are capable of developing vertical take-off and landing aircraft yourself, as a technical preparation, will it be applied to the next generation of fighter jets?
 
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els tian xia wu di said:
I've heard this is just a project for the research institute itself. If it's merely to demonstrate your ability to develop a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft as a technological preparation, will it be applied to the next generation of fighter jets?
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For pure research without practical implications, this is expensive and not very useful. I.e. there's some overflow of data into normal jet CTOL performance, but you may as well make a simpler demonstrator just for that alone.

The files @Tomboy mentions are a massive effort, it is a very expensive program, run in a place(Guizhou) that will require a significant investment to make it possible.
 
snne said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/2085065189117006111
View: https://x.com/stray_helium/status/2085065189117006111?s=20
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What are the odds, that what we're looking here is not a fan, as people are saying here, but a compressor (stator blades not depicted)?
In which case this hypothetical engine would be using reheat, with a large expansion nozzle, tuned for sea level and and low velocity (large expansion nozzle) . This would control the heat, help with hot gas reingestion, and the clutch and parasitic power drain on the main engine would be much lower than F-35B, which means the plane can fly with a much less powerful engine.

Afair, Hawker's proposed successor to the Harrier would've used a similar system.
 

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