It’s obviously “plain ridiculous to assume they could hold an AAM” , indeed. But I use to draw a comparison b/w the two planes to make the point regarding the 57. Those particularly shaped bumps appeared coincidentally on both design at the same aerodynamic point with no prior art in the domain. It is RIDICULOUS to NOT trace any relation b/w the two.

Indeed, you have the landing gear mechanism hosted in the cache; but it would be naive to think that Chinese designer had to rely on 1930’s usage while designing the only truly stealth design outside of the USA. Having reached that level of expertise to be trapped like that with having to resorting to bumps?! As you said it, “plain ridiculous” and bladibladabla…

Today we have another clue to had to the puzzle. This was the object of my post. Not in anyway to mock the achievements reached by this other part of the world of aerospace excellence that is becoming China. 😉

I thought those things under the Su-35 were either cameras or seekers of A-to-G weapons for training ???

But then why the low RCS shaping?!

Regarding the Canoe, yes, thank you, that’s exactly what I meant (and not the WB) 🙂

Pardon, but why do you still deny these bays on the J-20?? At least Zhuhai should have solved this issue for all non-believers.

The canoe things under the LERX 😉

“Ave, Imperator, morituri te salutant”

Citation from an ecstatic umbrella pilot…

B/w, Hallow do you have a direct reference to this in the Branco-German agreement?

Probably more MW or ionizing gun. Their surface treatment suggests there usage is part of a low RCS mission profile (as the no loadout configuration).

To me it points to the famous Weapon bays that’s everybody want absolutely to see under the LERX of the Su-57 and J-20.

That eagle was not too close. There is no converging vector to be seen (fly in parallel at about the same speed). He probably had a request or an order to investigate that airliner. This is a day to day activity in any regulated airspace. If that sounds insuportable to any, they should stick flying over homeland.
B/w If you want to see what flying too close is, I ‘ll point you to the now countless reckless behaviors from intercepting Chinese and Russian fighter jocks.

General Electric wins $517 million contract to build engines for Army’s next generation helicopters

GE, the incumbent manufacturer of the T700, offered a single spool engine. Sousa said that configuration would help the company meet weight requirements while removing cost and complexity from the design.

“Our fundamental approach there was how do we keep this engine as affordable as possible and as low weight as possible,” he told Defense News in 2018.

“Helicopters are unique in that they fly into very dirty environments, very austere environments, unprepared landing strips, unprepared surfaces,” added Ron Hutter, GE’s executive director of the T901 program. “They generate a lot of dust. You really want to look at the simplicity of the architecture in terms of maintainability. That’s another aspect that drove us to stick with the single-spool configuration.”

GE estimates that it’s spent $9 billion in testing technologies relevant to the T901.

ATEC had proposed a double spool engine it dubbed the T900.

“We were disappointed to learn that the U.S. Army did not select our offering,” said Craig Madden, president of ATEC. “We believe that we offered the most advanced, capable and lowest risk engine for ITEP for the Army to improve the overall performance of its Apache and Black Hawk fleets.”

Source:
DefenseNews.com

What’s your source to say that those rafales could not theorically be upgraded later to full standard ?

I am not sure that’s what the RFQ is about.