J-20 5th Gen Fighter Thread V

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by78

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She's stunning, in a menacing sort of way...

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Deino

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Guys ... that's not fair ! Really :mad:

I'm sitting here on my desk while I need to prepare the Chemistry-exams for my pupils that will be written in January. I have to sign in my exams exactly on next Monday 8 o'clock ....

I really cannot work this way.
 
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Bltizo said:
Nice one.

I suppose one question we should ask is whether those black dots are actually for the launch rails, and whether or not we should use them to judge the number of launch rails the weapons bay can have.
Because I think in both the 2002 and LRIP aircraft, the pattern of those black dots is actually the same, with two pairs of black dots, followed by one pair of black dots, followed by two pairs of black dots again, and that in 2002 we can see a pair of black dots between the two launch rails (in the half of the bay without missiles).

I'll demonstrate below, where the red boxes are indicative of the "double pairs" of black dots and green boxes indicative of "single pairs" black dots; basically the idea is that the "double pairs" of black dots do also exist on 2002 but are covered up due to either the launch rails or the missile dummies, and in the LRIP J-20 some of the "double pairs" and "single pairs" of black dots are not seen in the image due to the angle of the aircraft relative to the camera.

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.... So the question we need to ask is whether the black dots are actually attachment points that can be inferred from something, and if the "double pairs" of black dots/red boxes are indicative of the sort of PL-15 launch rail, then do the number of "double pairs" actually mean anything for us in terms of projecting the number of PL-15 launch rails that can be fitted. This would also assume that the "single pairs" of black dots/green boxes are not for PL-15 launch rails but for something else, thus imposing a limit to the number of PL-15 launch rails that we can infer.


Or, are those "black dots" completely irrelevant to how many launch rails the aircraft can carry, and thus taking us back to comparing the width of the weapons bay of the LRIP J-20 vs 2002?
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One theory could be that all the dots are attachment points but the double dots are more load bearing, so the center dot is only used for AAMs, while heavier ordinances are only hung on those double dots.
 
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taxiya

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Quickie said:
Looks like the big serial numbers are not going to be painted on the production J-20s? Reason could be that it looks better without it?
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The reason I have been kept on saying was "no reason to have it painted on". But for saying that, I will be "shot" by a firing squad made up by some members here. :D
 
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