J-20 5th Gen Fighter Thread IV (Closed to posting)

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SteelBird

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You have seen the progress China has made economically, scientifically and technologically in various fields. You have seen the various military technologies China has mastered over the years. You bubble will burst well before 2050.

Honestly, I've seen China success in economics. I've seen China success on stealth fighter development in a timely manner. However, I haven't seen China success significantly in engines, even engines for their cars! So, maybe we don't have to wait until 2050 but there are time to wait before we can see some domestic engine suitable for J-20.
 

Deino

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Come on guys, he's just toying with you, lighten up, and really aero eng how are you able to state something like that, been reading tea leaves again, oh??? you keep your slide rule packed in tea leaves.

I think he was only sarcastic !

By the way ... here it is in all its beauty !!! :p:p:p
 

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Air Force Brat

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I think he was only sarcastic !

By the way ... here it is in all its beauty !!! :p:p:p

Yes she is a beauty, looks like lots more metal than I had imagined, unless that's just shiny paint. My little brother flew his fixed wing RF-1 by Robo-Flight, as well as a quadcopter with a gyro-stabilized video camera, he is an agronomist for a major agricultural company, and a licensed pilot. The fixed wing is launched off a rail catapult, a flying wing design, and can be programmed to fly a grid, very kool. Now the quad-copter, that thing is nutso, totally autonomous, gyro stabilized video camera, takes off, flys to a waypoint, then to another, etc, etc, then it will recover to the take-off position. A review of the video shot was awesome, watching individual cows and calves, you could check the cows from the house, it is totally insane, and the camera, able to pan it down, up to the horizontal, very powerfull, and the beauty is its only 1500. US, can you imagine what the wall climbers could do with that, the walls would be no problem.......the fixed wing was being followed by a Turkey Buzzard, he came to check it out 3 or 4 times, what a day, all out in the old cow pasture. In the wrong hands, these things would be very bad news, but the ag applications promise a more environmentally friendly application of fertilizers and herbicides..... imagine the J-20 or F-22 as a photo bird, they might both be more effective than even the SR-71, but then that just reminds us how advanced Kelly Johnsons Black-Bird really was, amazing.
 

broadsword

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Honestly, I've seen China success in economics. I've seen China success on stealth fighter development in a timely manner. However, I haven't seen China success significantly in engines, even engines for their cars! So, maybe we don't have to wait until 2050 but there are time to wait before we can see some domestic engine suitable for J-20.


WS-10 is no mean feat. Engine development takes time. WS-15 is just shrouded in secrecy.
 

Schumacher

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I wouldn't hold my breath on WS-15s. Given the spectacular success of Chinese jet engine development, it might be the year 2050 before we see them in J-20s. Meanwhile, they better hope the AL-31 engine factory doesn't catch on fire.

Looking at the 'progress' of Spitfire F135 on F35, it's a safe bet J20 with WS15 will be the first successful next generation stealth jet in the world by around 2018.
Those which need pilots who don't breathe don't count.:)
 

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Still too small ... but anyway nice !
 

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Still too small ... but anyway nice !

A bit bigger, but what's that spider-net alike structure / thing on the tails ??? :confused: ... 2011 did not feature this.

Deino
 

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