Chinese Air Force

[rockdog]

What interests me is that the US military should have known this long before December 26 of last year

New patents on stealth materials by Avic

 

[rockdog]

China ‘could beat us to the punch’ to a 6th-gen fighter, Air Force official warns

China 'could beat us to the punch' to a 6th-gen fighter, Air Force official warns - Breaking Defense

“It's fair to say we pay a lot of attention to what the Chinese are doing. And so, not everything that becomes public is a shock,” Andrew Hunter said when asked about new images of purported Chinese fighters. “But having said that, their pace is incredibly fast.”

breakingdefense.com

 

[rockdog]

Do you have WS-15 details?
Will J-36 have WS-15 or something else?

Some newly found articles and patents, imply that the 3rd engine would be variable cycle engine, for empowering high energy EW equipments.

 

[Bhartiya Sainik]

Some newly found articles and patents, imply that the 3rd engine would be variable cycle engine, for empowering high energy EW equipments.

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It is possible that your DoD guys are researching on VCE & instead of putting it on IL-76 type cargo jet, they have put it in this J-36 TD & they would test the upper intake performance also perhaps for someother application.
Either ways the IOC J-36 might have 2 bigger VCEs. 1st fight jet cannot be production jet, so at least 5yrs remaining.

 

[Bhartiya Sainik]

Not a serious drawing from some CG studio

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> Where are the 2 side intakes? also moved on top?
> Rotary launcher looks interesting but it'll consume space till full height of jet below top intake meant for fuel & equipments.

 

[Bhartiya Sainik]

What interests me is that the US military should have known this long before December 26 of last year

US military is 1 thing & US intelligence is another thing & US R&D community is still another thing.
Same goes for all countries.
The military is just an operator of products.
The R&D community makes those products.
The Intelligence agencies spy on rest of the world. And CIA, NSA, NRO, etc must have got something, obviously they're not oblidged to share anything to public.
So the US R&D community (NASA, AFRL, LM, NG, Boeing, etc) must have anticipated potential adversaries since beginning, it is something endless. F-22 was designed in 1980s, that's 45 years till now.
Initially F-22 looked different with arrowhead shape like F-117, but was re-designed b/w July-15 & mid-October 1987, in just 3 monrhs, like said by Sherman Mullin (YF-22 project manager) in 1990s TV documentaries still available on Youtube. Check this video from 16:40 to 18:50


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oin5RnxdYJY





The point to note here is that they could redesign in 3 months in 1980s version of mainframe or super computers. Then imagine what they can do with today's computing with AI & how fast. So if they went back to drawing board after J-36 TD revealed, it is not a big deal.
Like J-20 7 J-31/35, the day China will clearly reveal J-50 (& perhaps naval version also) in closeup in air or on ground, then just like B-21 they'll reveal the NGAD & F/A-XX anytime in next few years & we'll see numerous documentries on NGAD competition, just like on ATF & JSF ones.
Artist Rodrigo Avella has made so many permutations of NGAD & F/A-XX that 1 of those or a combo will definitely fly, bcoz real jets are not like videogame jets.

 

[helin]

View: https://youtu.be/2MP_tXrJihk?si=AqZqFjaLgaQBlBXE

 

[rockdog]

What interests me is that the US military should have known this long before December 26 of last year

it's online now


View: https://youtu.be/1PJDovBpXu4?si=l7Hr9vW_g617HqEF