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This design reminds me of an F-117 style fighter bomber with greater range, speed and payload.
The speed would be Mach 2.5+ and have a payload of around 15000-20000 pounds.
Engine inlets are placed on the upper side of the fuselage this maximizing stealth.
Interestingly, the Northrop Grumman NGAD prototype also had a similar inlet and body design.
> But this jet has 2 primary intakes below wing which means it'll be a fighter-bomber like F-111 & Su-34, although not intending agile dogfight, obviously not gunfight & hence such a jet, be it of any country, can be easily defeated by 4gen in dogfight. Hence it needs to have very VLR-AAMs + DEW-CIWS + CCMs + VSR-AAMs like MSDM/CUDA/SACM + AI-UCAVs wingmen. Hence bigger IWB, perhaps double capacity. It simply cannot afford to venture near agile jets ALONE.
> The other jet might turn out to be agile fighter.
> The upper wing durface is very critical for lift, hence in my low IQ uderstanding creating a depression to hide rotating rudder.
> Americans have mastered confusing the world & keeping secrets which military is supposed to do. The real jet might be different in some aspects than what they're showing in their advertisements, that's what has happened with all jets since the era of advertisements in 1990s with Su-57, J-20, etc. The Tempest turned into GCAP. Let's see if FCAS sticks to its current depiction.
The next 40 years in all fighter jet maker countries are going to be very exciting.
