Is it just me or does the little nose fairing on the canoe bulge now appear “attached” to the underside of the wing and the rest of the bulge “seperate” ??
There now only appears to be a “gap” just aft of the nose section.

If these a small missile bays im yet to work out how they open!??

I know this is going to sound like a bizarre proposition to some of you but what if the toe in angle the dorsal fuselage and engine nacelles blend with each other at doesn’t necessarily follow the intake path, instead being this way for aerodynamic/stealth purposes.

From the photo (and the one posted above) it almost seems the nacelles are purposefully extended to blend into the forward fuselage and the extended part does not follow the same angle the ventral intake-nacelle assembly does. If we were to go by the infamous engine face shot and Paralay’s diagrams most of the engine face would have been bellow the main fuselage contour apex long before the nacelles fully blend with it anyway (remember that the actual engine is smaller than the nacelle makes it appear).

If that were true the actual trolls here are Sukhoi’s engineers.:diablo:

It gives it a nice wedge shape from the nose running down the back of the fuse to the engines

We have already seen the intake, and we know that the engine face is visible. Probably there isn’t any radar blocker installed there, but I’m 99% sure that eventually they will install some kind of radar blocker there. The same thing with the radar – there isn’t any radar installed yet, but nobody says that they won’t put any radar some time later. It’s just not installed yet.

We do??

Havent seen a picture yet which “WE” see it…. excluding photoshopped ones.

Its clear that at the very worst only 1/3 of the face is clear.

Only about half of the engine sits above the top of the front of the intake, forgetting that there appears to be some sort of variable intake ramp and the internals arent known.

More would be hidden because the intake curves around the main gear wheel well.

One really has to laugh at the incredible stupidty of some who keep posting a certain picture and think its real…

I don’t ask him to leave. I want him to FINALLY provide what he claimed he had.

PAGE ONE of this thread is the picture in question….

Blind freddy can see something is very wrong with the picture.
2 other versions of this picture have been posted.
One is unaltered in terms of lighting (its darker, unlike this picture which has added light/ contrast)
And the other showed a REALLY badly photoshopped blocker!
The above picture is clearly photoshopped as the “blocker” was cleaned up and made to look more “natural”

How is it in broad daylight that you cant see into the intake AT ALL!
Yet with a flash clearly higher then the wing leading edge (which would cast a shadow into the intake) its as clear as mud in this picture?

Apart from the fact the blocker is too big and there is other intake detail missing from the intake walls.

I think the wheels is more in a vertical position, not 100% but pretty close.
Perhaps a tilt on 10-20%..

Thanks

Well yes its been repeated dozens of times over and the pictures are so obvious… The tyre does not rotate to lay flat like in the SU-27 series. But hey lets keep posting the same line drawings…. ARGH!