M4000 had a fixed canard. It may not be as good as the M2000 or F-15 in manueverability. Its radome is bigger than the Rafale’s. Every fighter’s radome is bigger than rafale’s.

seriously, put jokes aside.

I think the chinese know what they are doing. they didnt build an aircraft and say “****, that is too big” After all, they spent billions of dollar and years of hard work. With computer simulation, i bet they know roughly the characteristics of the aircraft before it fly.

Looking back at history, wheater fighters or interceptors, they has been getting bigger and bigger. For a stealth aircraft, they want more internal fuel and range. With today’s high boresight and all aspect short range missile, turning fight is may be less important.

wing span to length ratio is not always the good eyeballer indicator for interceptor

interceptor Mig-25: good wing span/ length
dogfighter j-10, f-20, f-5, f-18, short wingspan/length ratio

Chinese Airforce 60th Anniversary Airshow – J-10A Flight Demonstration – Part-1 : Link (That’s a pretty good turn at 9:21)

Chinese Airforce 60th Anniversary Airshow – J-10A Flight Demonstration – Part-2 : Link

good show, but the hosts or broacasters sounded like retards. what is with them saying vectoring trust… and when they saw it flys at high AOA, they think it was climbing.

What is the time for it to do 360? anyone know?

Why not put more missiles on top of the wings, like the Lightening, and Jagaur? or under the intake like f-14, or wing tips?

Does it reduce lift if put too many missiles so closely under the wings?
R-77 folds grids forward? give you more drag?