Chengdu next gen combat aircraft (?J-36) thread

[ACuriousPLAFan]

Personally I believe the photo is real, but it's so picturesque that it seems unreal.

Of course, if he released a number of photos taken sequentially (presumably a number of photos were taken with repeated snaps during the approach to landing), each looking slightly different and unique from each other frame by frame, that would be somewhat more difficult to dispute.


Nice job of him regardless.

Apparently now he's afraid of getting invited for tea. So I suppose another time, then.

 

[Alfa_Particle]

Well, here's the guy who took that photo. He said that his house was just nearby Chengdu AC, and he managed to take this photo when he was at the roof taking sunset photos.

(Profile name and photo covered for obvious reasons)

(Chinese Central Military Commission

 

[BillRamengod]

r/WarPlanePorn mod deleted all the new J-36 post in reason of no x-plane allowed...
I was thought no political in there, guess i'm wrong.

 

[CaribouTruth]

r/WarPlanePorn mod deleted all the new J-36 post in reason of no x-plane allowed...
I was thought no political in there, guess i'm wrong.

It wasn't deleted for the image being of an "X" plane but because it was too low res. I reckon joe/blitzo's higher res post will stay up.

If they don't want any "X-plane" post then well that's only going to give them a respite for a few years anyways. Can't cope forever.

 

[CrazyHorse]

That is a pretty awesome view of the J-36!

Posted by @琴石2022 on Weibo.

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Looking at this, all of these exhausts look to be the same, so has the rumour of the third intake being for an APU or radiator been eliminated as a possibility?

 

[00CuriousObserver]

I do hope this is acceptable by PLA OPSEC standards though.

Looked around, the consensus seems like it's definitely not fine...

When the plane first came out, I heard second hand stories about people getting invited for tea. So RIP

 

[mack8]

Is it me, or there is some slight dihedral to the wings? I got the same impression from one of the recent videos when showing it from dead astern.

 

[mack8]

Looked around, the consensus seems like it's definitely not fine...

When the plane first came out, I heard second hand stories about people getting invited for tea. So RIP

Well, like i made a point some time ago, there would have been all kinds of "tourists" taking "sunset" pictures around CAC and SAC, then rushing with the pictures back to their employer, so high resolution pictures must be already in the hands of western entities. It's not like PRC is sending someone to follow every foreigner like for instance we see in some DPRK videos. So of course CCMC has it's job to do, but imo there is little reason to actually invite someone to tea for pictures such as this, especially since the J-36 (and even J-50) serenely fly low over multi-million people cities.

 

[talonn]

The photographer will be fine.(or fined?)

 

[CaribouTruth]

Now that we have a bit clearer view of the rear, I think we can indulge in a particular speculation.

There are 2 vertical vanes in the exhaust trench, separating the 3 engine exhaust flows.


What are the chances that the vertical vanes can move to produce thrust vectored yaw? It wouldn't require much deflection because the flow is already provided by the exhaust velocity.

Or would this be too heavy/complicated/convoluted for little benefit?