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

[mond]

What specific hatch are you and others talking about? Because I've been looking at the images and there's nothing which stands out

As for the slats, I agree it is more likely that it is part of the hangar/wall/background. But the "leakage" into the white part is likely image artefact or software issues.




There definitely is white camouflage on both the left and right sides of the J-36's dorsal airframe... The white camouflage on both sides of the J-36 are asymmetrical in shape, but they are definitely there.

I've attached a zoomed in portion of the dorsal intake below. The discontinuity is very clear, between the lighter blue portion jutting out, and darker outline of the intake manifold. The part jutting out is what we are talking about (some kind of hatch, person, etc.)

As for the white camouflage, there is a section of white on the left, but it is much further back, and is a straight (nearly) band, not some complex blob as would be required for the silhouette to include the part that juts out (see below)

 

[Blitzo]

I've attached a zoomed in portion of the dorsal intake below. The discontinuity is very clear, between the lighter blue portion jutting out, and darker outline of the intake manifold. The part jutting out is what we are talking about (some kind of hatch, person, etc.)
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Can you use a red arrow to indicate what you're referring to?
I legitimately am unable to discern what discontinuity you're talking about. It just looks like the dorsal intake to me, with its side/dorsal aspects having multiple tones of camouflage overlapping.

As for the white camouflage, there is a section of white on the left, but it is much further back, and is a straight (nearly) band, not some complex blob as would be required for the silhouette to include the part that juts out (see below)

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Camouflage has a weird way of appearing from different angles (particularly as we don't actually see what the full right/dorsal fuselage white pattern is), I wouldn't put it past the pattern being the same but just looking different because this is the first time we are seeing it at this angle.

 

[talonn]

I've attached a zoomed in portion of the dorsal intake below. The discontinuity is very clear, between the lighter blue portion jutting out, and darker outline of the intake manifold. The part jutting out is what we are talking about (some kind of hatch, person, etc.)
View attachment 153744
As for the white camouflage, there is a section of white on the left, but it is much further back, and is a straight (nearly) band, not some complex blob as would be required for the silhouette to include the part that juts out (see below)

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I still think it's just part of camouflage illusion esp since it's in low res and AI distorted ....

 

[WaterbDoge]

There definitely is white camouflage on both the left and right sides of the J-36's dorsal airframe... The white camouflage on both sides of the J-36 are asymmetrical in shape, but they are definitely there.

Doesn't look like white camouflage of any side

 

[Blitzo]

Doesn't look like white camouflage of any side

Are we looking at the same pictures?
I reviewed those same images earlier today, and to me, the camouflage patterns look entirely plausible with what we are seeing from the ground, with those distinctive white splodges on both sides of the airframe/next to the intake.

Remember this is not only the first angle we have of the aircraft from this frontal aspect, but this is also the first angle we have of the aircraft's camouflage pattern from the frontal aspect -- a camouflage pattern that we do not have (even now) a good 3-dimensional understanding of how it is placed atop the dorsal fuselage/intake of the aircraft.

 

[talonn]

Doesn't look like white camouflage of any side

Eh.. it does look like camo of this side..

 

[WaterbDoge]

Eh.. it does look like camo of this side..View attachment 153750

But in new photo you can't find the same white camouflage under the top intake, so I think the white part is something else

 

[talonn]

But in new photo you can't find the same white camouflage under the top intake, so I think the white part is something else

That looks more like reflection of transparent canopy under overexposed photo to me

 

[WaterbDoge]

Are we looking at the same pictures?
I reviewed those same images earlier today, and to me, the camouflage patterns look entirely plausible with what we are seeing from the ground, with those distinctive white splodges on both sides of the airframe/next to the intake.

Remember this is not only the first angle we have of the aircraft from this frontal aspect, but this is also the first angle we have of the aircraft's camouflage pattern from the frontal aspect -- a camouflage pattern that we do not have (even now) a good 3-dimensional understanding of how it is placed atop the dorsal fuselage/intake of the aircraft.

Currently we only see such a bright part on its top intake but not on the rest part of the aircraft, I doubt if the camouflage is obvious from this angle

 

[latenlazy]

but I think it's safe to say that the J-36 looks nothing like the abomination that was posted a couple days ago that suspiciously spread like wildfire, which I claimed to be fake:
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If it’s ugly it’s ugly. We should all get over it (I will keep making fun of its appearance because I’ll be honest it’s actually really funny to me that it can look so awkward in some angles but honestly it’s not a big deal the point of this thing isn’t to win beauty pageants).