Tailless designs (e.g. 6 Gen projects) and high AoA stability

[Avimimus]

Hello,

I was curious about how high angle-of-attack stability is expected to be achieved in the various 6 gen tailless fighter concepts floating about? Any thoughts?

If I recall correctly, MANTA, was pretty dependent on thrust vectoring (it might be recoverable from normal forward flight with an engine out, but not high AoA) ...but that is a 1990s design.

Anyone feel like informing me? It isn't the easiest flight regime to go tailless in.

 

[Manuducati]

Tail-less high AOA was explored by X-31

Experiment on Quasi-Tailless Flight of an X-31A Airplane

Lessons learned will be applied in future development of thrust vectoring.

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