What? You think sticking something on a tower makes it a stealth aircraft? :rolleyes: The fact that after all this time they still have huge RCS problems suggests they’re still scratching their heads. Maybe I’m wrong, time will tell.

Yeah! They are having such huge problems! I heard Pogosyan ate his tie the other day, and Putin was organizing a sacking of most of the UAC upper management!:rolleyes:

Well things like riveted bare metal with no edge alignment don’t take a supercomputer to determine it ain’t good for stealth. 😉

The T-50 has excellent edge alignment. Bolts, bells and whistles will be taken care of on later models.

Certainly not at the angle that you posted. I think my angle better represents where the photographer is standing, if you look at the probe on the nose in the first picture relation to the red angle line in the second picture. The photographer could reach out and touch that probe, if he wanted to. He’s standing right next to it.

See my post as a whole, please. :rolleyes:

I re-posted my last pic, which is about what you have too.

Also, again, it MAKES ZERO DIFFERENCE. WHO CARES? :rolleyes:

It’s no where near the same angle. The person who took the pictures of the YF-23 was standing at an angle to the S-shaped intake so that he/she could see down the intake and to the compressor.

Here’s the relative angle that the YF-23 photographer was standing at…

Now here’s the relative angle that the T-50 photographer was standing at…

If you look at the T-50 picture, the photographer is standing by the nose of the aircraft, and is looking straight down the intake.

More like that. The shot is off to the side slightly, definitely clearing the nose and cockpit.

You got your YF-23 angle about right, I would say it’s slightly closer to the center.

There is no way to tell how the photo was taken due to zoom (your photographer position statement)

Can the YF-23’s compressor blades be seen while looking straight down the intake? From my understanding, you have to look at them from an angle. In the T-50’s case, I’m looking at them straight down the intake, which is not good if the aircraft is flying head-on against, say, and F-22 (who’s compressor blades cannot be seen in a similar fashion to the T-50’s).

Actually it’s exactly the same angle – well almost. You are looking from below and from the side to see the engine on the YF-23 and T-50.

With the IRST sensor in the front, and the compressor blades visible from in front of the aircraft (not off to the side, like on the YF-23), I have a strong feeling that the T-50 is not anywhere close to being as stealthy as the F-22 from a frontal aspect.

The IRST sensor is going to get reworked, and those compressor blades are far less visible from the direct front, if at all, and they are going to have a badass blocker installed too. So your feeling is baseless.

Some of the recent photos show some exposed compressor blades.

When you stare into the intake from those angles, yes – that is likely one of the most “engine spotting” positions you could take a photo from.

That’s why there’s also going to be a radar blocker. One that required 4 patents. 😎

:rolleyes: The Su47 has a RCS of 0,25m²

So a Rafale, “clean” ~0.5 Sq Mtr (Assuming PAKFA level)

All these RCS figures are horsesh1t… for any real comparison.