I don’t see enough room for a full serpentine duct. It looks more like the SU-57 with some lateral offset inward, with the DSI bump blocking some of the engine view.That's assume the duct itself is a straight line from the inlet to the front of the engine face, which we of course know isn't given the case as we can see the geometry of the DSI to begin with.
Otherwise looking at something like F-22 or J-20 externally they would be assumed to have a straight path as well.
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I don’t see enough room for a full serpentine duct. It looks more like the SU-57 with some lateral offset inward, with the DSI bump blocking some of the engine view.
But nothing like F-22 or F-35 where the engine face is invisible from the outside.
I don’t see enough room for a full serpentine duct. It looks more like the SU-57 with some lateral offset inward, with the DSI bump blocking some of the engine view.
But nothing like F-22 or F-35 where the engine face is invisible from the outside.
It then appears to transition to the F35/KAAN style cockpit-canopy with the FC-31 3.0, where we see it open 'backwards'The first two iterations of the design it appears to have an F-22 style cockpit-canopy.
I absolutely agree with your counterargument - the US makes logical design decisions with their aircraft design, and these decisions to add things like EOTS/DAS would likely exist even in world where the LockMart didn't make the F-35 in 2006/before J-20 & J-35 etc. This design is no doubt indigneous, and my comment was intended to poke fun at the notion that a stealthy fighter aircraft wouldn't have s-ducts.Y'all are specifically choosing to ignore the fact that this aircraft existed for 12 years and kept evolving before it eventually evolved into a naval aviator.
-Since the US has had the most experience in designing so far, their designs obviously inspired everyone else's next generation aircraft and there's nothing wrong about it since this is the same kind of inspiration that the US also draws from others.-
While China was involved in industrial espionage as every country on the planet does, this is 100% an indigenous design (as anyone with a set of eyes and a brain can see from afar!).
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Your ignorance can no longer be tolerated as something unintended, this is starting to become malicious at this point...
You're welcome: https://chinese-military-aviation.blogspot.com/2012/07/fighters_18.html?m=1
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I mean, Russia keeps claiming that they have some weird grid thing in front of the engines of the Su57 that blocks radar, instead of just making an S-duct.my comment was intended to poke fun at the notion that a stealthy fighter aircraft wouldn't have s-ducts.
I mean, Russia keeps claiming that they have some weird grid thing in front of the engines of the Su57 that blocks radar, instead of just making an S-duct.
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even in world where the LockMart didn't make the F-35 in 2006/before J-20 & J-35 etc.
US never revealed what was stolen in those hacks into the f-35 but edward snowden did.
New Snowden Documents Reveal Chinese Behind F-35 Hack
Experts have long argued that China has copied the F-35 design for its own fighter jets. Is this the proof?thediplomat.com
"The Snowden files outline the scope of Chinese F-35 espionage efforts, which focused on acquiring the radar design (the number and types of modules), detailed engine schematics (methods for cooling gases, leading and trailing edge treatments, and aft deck heating contour maps) among other things."
The US cybersecurity and counter intelligence against China was an absolutely mess to largely not fault of their own during the early 2000s. At the time, I remember several officials ringing the alarming bells once in a while over the fact that most resources were dedicated to the war on terror and there's not enough resources/funding to secure our data from near peer threats.
Regardless, I think it's wise to refrain from typing "copy" every time we see some sort of obvious similarities to the naked eyes. It doesn't add anything to the discussion and technical understanding we all pursue and it doesn't stand on any ground of evidence unless forensic analysis that show explicit similarities such as inlet ducts specific schematics, composition and placement of different materials to suppress radar returns or infrared signature.
Nicely defined shock diamonds, but they are more closely spaced than you see on the F-22 and F-35, implying lower exhaust velocity. Probably running a fan pressure ratio in the 3:0-3.5, similar to the F100/F110 generation.Them shock diamonds...