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

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Mearex

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Raison D'tere said:

I know their inputs are barely worth sharing about, but the display of their gradual change of opinions on the J-36 is really something that is extremely humorous to watch.

Apart from the typical 'will it crash' shenanigans, they are now at the 'acceptance' stage of grief. They complement about it's a good looking aircraft and partially lazed their views on it being a bomber. Can't say the same for Sandboxx, but the trend of ridiculing the mainland's developments is clearly on the decline as we look into the future.
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rly? Aren't they still repeating that it's not a fighter? Even the part of them saying the J-36 is good looking is wrong HAHAHAHA

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taxiya

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tankphobia said:
Tbf they have had decades of experience with the f-117, B-2 and now B-21 where flat+triangle+no vertical stabiliser means bomber. Its hard to reconcile something so different from your expectations.
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They just have oversized ego than proper knowledge and lack the basic sense of humbleness. They are pilot but not aerodynamic scientists and engineers. They know how to fly a plane with the assistance of computers that do all the work. They don't have the competence to talk about what a certain plane can and can not do. It is like a telecom engineer from the 1950s with only knowledge of electro-mechanic switches saying that a "switch" today can not send live video streams.
 
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Mearex

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tankphobia said:
Tbf they have had decades of experience with the f-117, B-2 and now B-21 where flat+triangle+no vertical stabiliser means bomber. Its hard to reconcile something so different from your expectations.
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I am offering american netizens the alternative of calling it an "air superiority bomber" if that makes them feel better. They can think of it as a mach 3 bomber that bombs other stealth fighters
 
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ACuriousPLAFan

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Lolcakesters said:
It's real. It looks CGI cuz of new stealth coating. Also has one stabilizer.
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No it isn't real.

That one vertical stabilizer belongs to another J-20 in the background of the original photo, which is hidden by the J-36. The J-36 does not feature any vertical stabilizers.

Also, there are CGIs of the J-36 elsewhere with even more close-to-real-life textures than the J-36 shown in that PS-ed photograph. The author of the photograph is also a well-known CG artist in the PLA community.
 
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If the J-36, rather than the J-XDS, becomes the new accepted paradigm for next generation aircraft, we might see the birth of the first main battle aircraft as an equivalent to the main battle tank of the previous decades. MBA is unfortunately a rather clumsy acronym though, since it already means something else.
 
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dasCKD said:
If the J-36, rather than the J-XDS, becomes the new accepted paradigm for next generation aircraft, we might see the birth of the first main battle aircraft as an equivalent to the main battle tank of the previous decades. MBA is unfortunately a rather clumsy acronym though, since it already means something else.
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MBT meant replacing every other subtype of a tank by a more capable type of medium tank, capable of doing it all reasonably well.
Very, very unlikely Chengdu bird will get there. It is a clear outlier among contemporaries.
 
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