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Lol, it looks more like a cruiser than a fighter!
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The long airframe is designed to accomodate supercruise. China tends to focus more on manoevurability and supercruise when it comes to 5th generation fighters. The philosophy is that dogfights are inevitable between LO aircrafts, thus the faster and more agile one wins the day.Lol, it looks more like a cruiser than a fighter!
The long airframe is designed to accomodate supercruise. China tends to focus more on manoevurability and supercruise when it comes to 5th generation fighters. The philosophy is that dogfights are inevitable between LO aircrafts, thus the faster and more agile one wins the day.
For that purpose, they even sacrificed low observability. With that said, it is not to say that J-20 will be a huge target on radar. Great efforts were still made to lower the plane's RCS, and is head above the rest of 4.5 generation in terms of signal management.
If Americans did not care about manoevurability, they would have picked the YF-23 over the YF-22 in their ATF selection. There was a documentary about the YF-23 program, which the Northrop team described that YF-23 had better low observable characteristics and was faster than the YF-22. Yet, it was the more manoevurable YF-22 that won the day. RCS and radar detection range have a diminishing return value.See this is where Americans stand firm, they maintain "unless you cant be seen, you cant be hit". The theme of maneuverability comes second as all this maneuverability will only help when J-20 is able to detect the presence of Raptor. While Raptor will certainly have the privilege of first sight, first shot putting J-20 on defensive right from initiation. The Raptor philosophy is to keep hidden and make BVR fight unless its absolutely necessary to go WVR. Keeping this in view, I am still a big proponent of "stealth first" philosophy
Don't know how to explain this, but there is a math formula to calculate detection distance. Basically, a function of ^4.See this is where Americans stand firm, they maintain "unless you cant be seen, you cant be hit". The theme of maneuverability comes second as all this maneuverability will only help when J-20 is able to detect the presence of Raptor. While Raptor will certainly have the privilege of first sight, first shot putting J-20 on defensive right from initiation. The Raptor philosophy is to keep hidden and make BVR fight unless its absolutely necessary to go WVR. Keeping this in view, I am still a big proponent of "stealth first" philosophy
False.The f-22 was chosen in the early 90s. Missiles were yet to reach the levels of capabilities we see today. High offbore sight missiles with the ability to pull 40 to 50gs were not a reality at that time. The f-35 is a far greater indicator of what the future holds according to the USAF. Some of the limitations of the f-35 may be due to cost, but the Americans would never let a substandard product enter service. Advanced avionics and missiles have reached a point where they can counter, to a great extent, super maneuverability.
It doesn't matter what maneuver an aircraft is pulling when an aim-9x can move faster and out turn it...or atleast that is what the Americans are relying on.