one thing is that the J-20’s canard is angled upwards, very different angle and plane from the main wing
but the US X-36 canards are at the same plane and angle as the main wing
so too was the Lockheed JAST
i guess the J-20’s canards are more akin to Rafale and MiG 1.44
I suppose being on the same plane, but angled slightly must be a compromise between the X-36’s and J-10s canard placement.
As latenlazy said in the J-20 thread, i too believe the canards likely produce a negligible RCS increase over a conventional placement.
Also, in terms of planform alignment would an angle to the canards effect anything? Because the radar waves should still be scattered in a controlled fashion in the same direction as the wings? Acting in the same way the F-22’s V tails leading edge is aligned and therefore scatters as the main wing’s leading edge.
only degrading if you have too much senseless pride.
If you don’t find it degrading that they’re testing a model of an aircraft which we’ve only seen a few models of, that’s fine. But you have to admit at least it’s a bit illogical.
There were two other candidates to test which resembled the model in the picture before the AMCA.
And if it wasn’t degrading it was certainly flammable (I’m assuming unintentional).
check out this wind tunnel model from Russia. looks quite alike the YF-22 (unlike the supposed J-16 model above).. and the Raptor’s design has changed since then
Are you implying that because the Russians were testing a wind tunnel model of a prototype US fighter years ago it would be logical for China to do something similar?
The difference is that if the picture we saw was of testing the AMCA (lulz), they’re basing iton a few models seen at airshows. The Russians had a real flyable plane to work off (depending on when the picture was taken).
IF that is a model of the YF-22 in the first place.
Yes, the best reference of what will the J 16 look like, from the open source with long history :p
This is to be one of the failed Jxx design by SAC. It used to be the standard Jxx picture about half decade ago.
Ah good times, back when J-10 was considered the “new generation fighter”.
And who can forget this drawing? Turned out to be pretty damn accurate too
come to think of it.. it looks alot like the recent HAL AMCA model
perhaps its Chinese engineers examining a potential adversary.
I somehow doubt that.
The model is so blurry it’s more likely if they were examining an adversary it’d be the F-22 rather than AMCA, which I class as a very, very distant potential adversary.
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