Ahtong 1st Gear April 3, 2012 Share April 3, 2012 New pictures of the China's J-20 Mighty Dragon stealth fighter have surfaced and are making their way across military blogs. This newest round of photos show the J-20 in the skies somewhere over mainland China. The prototype is said to be using the Saturn AL-31 turbofan engine developed by the Russians for their Su-27 air superiority fighter. Reuben Johnson at The Washington Times reports the Chinese may be as much as 10 years away from producing an original stealth engine to slip into the J-20. In the meantime, they'll have to take comfort in the fact that while the F-22 Raptor may be more agile and made entirely in the U.S., the Dragon carries more fuel and weapons than Lockheed's fighter. The J-20's development is also moving along much faster than anyone had expected. Back in 2009, Gen. He Weirong, deputy commander of the People ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unidentified 1st Gear April 3, 2012 Share April 3, 2012 hope they don't crash as much as the migs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dankoo 4th Gear April 3, 2012 Share April 3, 2012 I am looking at those wings and wonder the design is more for speed and less on maneuverability... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Bear Turbocharged April 3, 2012 Share April 3, 2012 Fire-faux 2012 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porker Turbocharged April 3, 2012 Share April 3, 2012 How come it looks like the SR-71?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wishcumstrue 6th Gear April 3, 2012 Share April 3, 2012 Fire-faux 2012 Already flown in Jan 2011. Old new liao. http://www.mycarforum.com/index.php?s=&...t&p=3555186 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabian Turbocharged April 3, 2012 Share April 3, 2012 How come it looks like the SR-71?? Flaccid mode. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulcann 6th Gear April 3, 2012 Share April 3, 2012 a siang bo? Maybe the designer is a fan of Clint "Dirty Harry" Eastwood [laugh] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happily1986 5th Gear April 3, 2012 Share April 3, 2012 I am looking at those wings and wonder the design is more for speed and less on maneuverability... are you saying that a canard design is less agile than a delta wing design? from what i read, canards tend to have better lift performance and generally better aerodynamics characteristics. There are quite few canard designs out there and i understand that some suffer from pitch control problems. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shull Turbocharged April 3, 2012 Share April 3, 2012 are you saying that a canard design is less agile than a delta wing design? from what i read, canards tend to have better lift performance and generally better aerodynamics characteristics. There are quite few canard designs out there and i understand that some suffer from pitch control problems. Canard design has very high maneuverability but almost impossible to fly without small minute corrections done automatically by onboard computers.. So they better make sure their computers don't crash Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph22 Turbocharged April 3, 2012 Share April 3, 2012 Very happy to see my brother flying in the sky anyway who build this plane?? China themselves?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proton_neutron 1st Gear April 3, 2012 Share April 3, 2012 Don't look down on the Chinese when it comes to such things. Not a laughing matter when they start to mass produce their weaponry..... Their cars have been making steady progress. New Chinese cars under the GM brand is doing well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happily1986 5th Gear April 3, 2012 Share April 3, 2012 (edited) Canard design has very high maneuverability but almost impossible to fly without small minute corrections done automatically by onboard computers.. So they better make sure their computers don't crash actually most modern airframe are inherently unstable so they are using "fly by wire" technology. However you did bring up correctly my point which i was earlier trying to bring across to dankoo. I am looking at those wings and wonder the design is more for speed and less on maneuverability... Edited April 3, 2012 by Happily1986 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
A5SB 1st Gear April 3, 2012 Share April 3, 2012 And Ah Tiong plane with Ah Tiong pilot, can anybody think of a more deadly combination? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
A5SB 1st Gear April 3, 2012 Share April 3, 2012 New pictures of the China's J-20 Mighty Dragon stealth fighter have surfaced and are making their way across military blogs. This newest round of photos show the J-20 in the skies somewhere over mainland China. The prototype is said to be using the Saturn AL-31 turbofan engine developed by the Russians for their Su-27 air superiority fighter. Reuben Johnson at The Washington Times reports the Chinese may be as much as 10 years away from producing an original stealth engine to slip into the J-20. In the meantime, they'll have to take comfort in the fact that while the F-22 Raptor may be more agile and made entirely in the U.S., the Dragon carries more fuel and weapons than Lockheed's fighter. The J-20's development is also moving along much faster than anyone had expected. Back in 2009, Gen. He Weirong, deputy commander of the People Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happily1986 5th Gear April 3, 2012 Share April 3, 2012 (edited) pork kar chng porker is quite right. Sans the front canards, the rear fuselage do bear some resemblance in the outline. However the SR-71 is far more elegant looking with the right curves and apparently more stealthy too. Edited April 3, 2012 by Happily1986 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulcann 6th Gear April 3, 2012 Share April 3, 2012 pork kar chng porker is quite right. Sans the front canards, the rear fuselage do bear some resemblance in the outline. However the SR-71 is far more elegant looking with the right curves and apparently more stealthy too. Blackbird. Still the fastest jet at Mach 3+ IIRC... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shull Turbocharged April 3, 2012 Share April 3, 2012 pork kar chng porker is quite right. Sans the front canards, the rear fuselage do bear some resemblance in the outline. However the SR-71 is far more elegant looking with the right curves and apparently more stealthy too. I thought the SR-71 is far from stealthy? it's RCS is much much bigger than the first true Stealth Fighter (F-117A)... But due to it's speed and altitude, it's nearly invulnerable.. Accelerating would typically be enough to evade a missile fired against an SR-71. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-71A#Stealt...hreat_avoidance ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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