CriticalThought
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Active flow control may be a suitable technology for sixth generation aircraft, if it is being actively researched. I very much doubt if PAC or really anyone else in Pakistan has the wherewithal to attempt it for Azm.
A word of caution - Americans successfully pitched dead-end research tangents in publications (like Popular Mechanics, for example) for Soviets to pick up and waste their resources. Pakistan has zero resources to spare & I would rather have PAC spend tax money where it brings the most benefit & not chase sexy new technologies.
With Azm's official timeline being 2040, do you really think PAC is targeting what is currently known as 'fifth gen'? That would be an utterly idiotic assumption. The lines between fifth and sixth will get increasingly blurred, especially because the Europeans, Chinese, and Russians are still effectively on 4th gen. Their next iteration, which would be 5th, would need to compete with American 6th gen.
Your caution is uninformed. Had you made the tiniest effort to search 'Active Flow Control' on Google scholar, you would find this technology is being researched in 2020 around the world, including by Chinese researchers.
Next, it seems you have never been a part of a high performance, results oriented culture. In first world countries, such a culture is based around 'fail early, fail often'. This is the only way forward if one wants to be at the forefront of modern technology. If people like yourself were managing affairs at PAC, I would be very concerned about our future.
Thankfully, PAC has quite bright minds laying out the path. The next gen of aerodynamic design lies at the intersection of AI and computational fluid dynamics and this is the secret behind the recent inauguration of the AI centre which nobody on this site seems to have grasped. There are people who are spouting BS about PAC's inability to delve in AI, and instead of refuting them, here you are trying to plant ambiguity on active flow control. Go get a life.