Chengdu J-20 5th Generation Aircraft News & Discussions

[Daniel808]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1421680964296577027

 

[IblinI]

 

[JSCh]

 

[ozranger]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1423252771566804993

 

[TNT]

An all moving vertical stabilizer would definitely make it more manoeuvrable. This also means the vertical stabs can be kept smaller.

 

[siegecrossbow]

An all moving vertical stabilizer would definitely make it more manoeuvrable. This also means the vertical stabs can be kept smaller.

Downside is that you need ventral strakes to provide stability at high AOA.

 

[TNT]

Downside is that you need ventral strakes to provide stability at high AOA.

Yes but not a bad trade-off id say. Ventral strakes are also used with traditional vertical stabalizers.

 

[ozranger]

Downside is that you need ventral strakes to provide stability at high AOA.

Those ventral strakes were reportedly known as made of electromagnetic wave absorbent material. Worth noting it is wave absorbent material but wave transparent or wave through material, which means EM wave will not get through and hit the fuselage. Instead its energy will be partially absorbed by the ventral strakes while remaining energy will be deflected to other directions.

 

[siegecrossbow]

 

[onebyone]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1423502005910212609

 

[Titanium100]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1423502005910212609

Damn it is flying so low and not far from that tree in the first few seconds before going around the building

 

[onebyone]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1423461468943503361

 

[ACE OF HEARTS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1423461468943503361

Love the engine's sound

 

[siegecrossbow]

J-20s flew over the Sino-Russian military exercise at Qingtongxia at 1:07 mark.

https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4668316737603397

 

[siegecrossbow]

Wow. A J-20 pilot does a roll for some chicks in some small town and everyone loses his mind but J-20 participates in the first international exercise for the type and no one even comments...