You know Carlo Kopp just doesn’t let me down!:D

From a few pictures he makes some wonderful conclusions, basically along the lines that the Super Hornet and F35 will be doomed by this wonder fighter we actually know nothing about except for these pictures!

Here are some Carlo Kopp gems from his article and my thoughts:

What the imagery shows is a large fighter, approaching the size of an F-111…

He draws this conclusion when as of yet we have no clear indication of it size and won’t until they park it by something like the J-11 which we have known size parameters. He has jumped onto the its the size of the F-111 probably from the early specualtion about the first picture we saw from the fence through the trees when the silhouette at a distance kind of looked like an F-111. We now know it doesn’t look anything like an F-111 and size wise not much different from contempory fighters.

Of most interest is the stealth shaping, which is considerably better than that seen in the Russian T-50 PAK-FA prototypes and in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The Chinese design appears to be largely built around the stealth shaping design rules employed in the F-22A Raptor.

Again we know too little to draw any of those conclusions yet and appears to me more about his general Australian paranoia about those evil Chinese and his constant F-35 bashing!

The notion that an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter or F/A-18E/F Super Hornet will be capable of competing against this Chengdu design in air combat, let along penetrate airspace defended by this fighter, is simply absurd.

I find it ABSURD he draws that conclusion about the J-20 and its threat to the Super Hornet and F-35 when we know so little about this new aircraft! To me its more about him continuing to beat his anything but the F-22 is not capable of operating against any threats drum. Honestly I would love to meet Carlo and shout:

The F-22 is not for sale!
The F-22 is not for sale!
The F-22 is not for sale!
The F-22 is not for sale!
The F-22 is not for sale!

A new front view.

The air inlet is not a simple DSI, seems a combination of DSI and F22 caret-shape. Front view of J20 is awesome, very evil, this bird should be the standard equipment of dark force in future science fiction movies.:D

One think to note is the main undercarriage looks fairly beefy, I wonder if they building in commonality for a carrier variant.

Also I am daily checking the Air Power Australia website news section. Its only a matter of time before Carlo Kopp writes a NOTAM about how with this new chinese death machine of a fighter that all Australians will be Chinese slaves unless they buy the F22!:rolleyes:

Interesting development:

http://www.janes.com/news/defence/jdw/jdw101224_1_n.shtml

KARF was already assembling FIAR-Grifo radar, licence building the KLJ-7 is a logical next step considering the number of JF-17 Pakistan is intending to induct over the next few years.

The anchors are new!

Nah QuadroFX the Sukhoi S37 doesnt have an all moving tail.

I would add that even France and the UK have purchased Catapults from the US instead of developing them on their own. Let’s not forget the all Modern US, French, and British Carriers have American Catapults. (you can likely add India to the list on the IAC-2)

Nope All British carriers had British steam catapults and the French Clemenceau class also had British catapults. Only when the French built the CdG did they use American catapults. Also the first operational American steam catapult the C-11 was based on the British BXS-1 catapult.

I doubt it as it would involve extra qualifications for the airframe and tankers in service. RAF will rely on allied tanker assets if really needed.

On a technical standpoint I don’t see any issue with fitting a similar probe as fitted to British and French E3.