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Oh lord, oh lord... All high-resolution.
These images pretty well I think rule out a belly mounted cannon. Unless you mount the gun in the place of the EOTS there is just no room to shoot around the war load and doors.
J-20 5th Gen Fighter Thread VI
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These images pretty well I think rule out a belly mounted cannon. Unless you mount the gun in the place of the EOTS there is just no room to shoot around the war load and doors.
this is the real deal! Close up full performance in 1080p!!!!
it is indeed!
Now check out these vortices... They are like cotton candy.
Well as the Dark Lord would say? "Impressive!, Most IMPRESSIVE!"
I think the guy probably meant that the Chinese TVC appeared 10 to 20 years after American/Russian TVC (the F-16 MATV did indeed test in the 90s). Regardless, you can rest assured that CNN is not a credible source in whatever form. 2 years ago, they quoted some Justin Bronk guy to diss the J-20 at Zhuhai 2016. Now, they're doing the same thing.
Playwolf gives a great answer, the high pressure air beneath the canards/wings is "bleeding over" into the low pressure air above the wing in a violent, tornadic action at two very specific aerodynamic features, the inboard gap between the canard and fuselage juncture as well as the outboard tips of the canard, and the inner dog-tooth formed by the leading edge slats..... those vortices "energize" flow and further lower the pressure and create additional liftit also bleeds over at the very tips of the wings, creating "tip vortices", which are also extremely violent, in fact so much so that a smaller aircraft following a larger aircraft will indeed loose control if flown into those vortices....the reason why smaller aircraft following larger aircraft are advised to remain above and aft of a "heavy" as they approach the airport, these "vortex generators" may be observed doing their work in the presence of moisture laden air, where clouds form as that denser high pressure air gives up that moisture in those little cotton candy clouds....
we are able to observe that the J-20 has a very "active" airflow....
Siege, in all honesty brother, in the Western vernacular the F-14, F-15, F-18, and F-22 are also right and properly referred to as interceptors, I mean, what are those F-22's doing when they fly out to meet those Russian Bears??? they are "intercepting", so I think folks are far to sensitive to the term interceptor, its most decidedly NOT a derogatory term in Western think!
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Kelly Johnson is often attribute to that quote or rather " the best place for Canards is someone else's plane not mine."
He worked for Lockheed not Northrop and was the mind behind the U2 and SR71.
He is also quoted as saying that if a plane is ugly it flus about the same.
I think someone else said that before but I imagine that would incure a lot of drag.
Also the weight and limits on gun and ammo would make it questionable practically. Already gun systems in fighters have limited ammo supply.
All aircraft "bleed energy" if cranked long enough, any time you apply positive pitch to an airframe, two things happen, you "bleed energy" and that energy is converted into "LIFT".... same thing happens with Su-35, Su-57, and F-22......
(I used those three because they each have OVT)
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