Yes in many ways a person in China does have more freedoms like the ones you mentioned. But if we're talking about purely political freedoms, it is the nature of PRC's authoritarianism to limit personal political freedoms for what is considered as the common good. This is complex and hard to debate ie everyone can make good points, personal biases and values come into play. It is also off topic and I shouldn't have responded initially. I just thought a blanket statement saying that China has more freedom than USA is taking things too far.
J-20 5th Gen Fighter Thread VI
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Yes in many ways a person in China does have more freedoms like the ones you mentioned. But if we're talking about purely political freedoms, it is the nature of PRC's authoritarianism to limit personal political freedoms for what is considered as the common good. This is complex and hard to debate ie everyone can make good points, personal biases and values come into play. It is also off topic and I shouldn't have responded initially. I just thought a blanket statement saying that China has more freedom than USA is taking things too far.
I wish the "big shrimps" and other experts would talk about why they went with canards so far away from the nose in combination with the large strakes. It's a rather messy design - compared to Russian and Western aircraft designs.
Would love to read a good reasoning why Chengdu went with the various design decisions.
Would love to read a good reasoning why Chengdu went with the various design decisions.
...We have the original design translated to English. It’s there if you look for it.
Well, according to Dr. Song, the "distant coupled canards" enabled him to achieve a very high "pitch rate" without resorting to OVT, it also allowed him to guarantee a J-20 that had been "departed" could recover from "post stall maneuvering without OVT...
in addition the "distant coupled, long throw canards" provide additional lift at a far forward station, moving the center of lift forward, as canards add to the total lift, rather than taking away from that value as traditional aft mounted horizontal stabs and elevators would.
as I've mentioned before, while the J-20 has "borrowed" design elements from many different aircraft? the J-20 is a "distinctly Chinese configuration" dispelling once and for all the myth that China does NOT have the capability to independently design, build, and fly their own aircraft.
as such the J-20 has brought honor and fame to its designers, it operators, the PLAAF, and the Nation, it is a source of National pride and honor, and honor has always been an extremely important value in Chinese culture, sadly Honor is less important to younger Chinese, just as it seems less important in the US culture, honor is NO longer a given!
anyway, back on topic, the Chendu J-20 has become a cultural ICON within China, and a source of immense pride to Chinese living abroad,one of the reasons folks are crazy about the J-20,, telling folks it has a 15 ton empty weight, telling them it Will super cruise, and most recently, insisting on a NAVAL VERSION of J-20???
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Yes, I believe that Siege did the original translation, and in my opinion, the original and Siege's translation should be "stickied" in the current J-20 thread for the benefit of all to see! not sure if our current web sight will support stickies???
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