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

[valysre]

Someone with an employment history like that surely would have sent his images to the US government, rather than a forum like this one.

 

[SinoAmericanCW]

Someone with an employment history like that surely would have sent his images to the US government, rather than a forum like this one.

Neither. The usual outlet for someone of his background is the Warthunder forum.

 

[taxiya]

May or may not be relevant, but apparently a guy in Chengdu came under official scrutiny in April. He works for the US Commerce Dept and previously served in the US military. He's currently under an exit ban in Beijing.

Anyone remember particularly good photos from April?

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One possible reason is that he is/was a Chinese citizen living in U.S. He got fast-tracked U.S. citizenship by serving U.S. military. A lot of Chinese did that during the Iraqi/Afgahnistan occupation period, some of them even openly bragged it on internet. He did not promptly renounce his Chinese citizenship upon acquiring U.S. citizenship. This is in principle against Chinese law. The consequence can be only an inconvinience or China denying the validity of his U.S. citizenship, it all depends on if and what unfinished business the person may have in China. One serious exemple was an Chinese Uyghur acquired Canadian citizenship got arrested in China for terrorism (before he left China), China rejected any Canadian diplomatic intervention arguing that the person is only treated as Chinese as his acquisation of Canadian citizenship was not through proper legal procedure. An inconvinience example is one of my friends, who got his foreign passport "confisticated"/held by the border police and spent the next week running around to go through his procedure of cancelling civil registration. This U.S. person may be just like the later example except due to his service in U.S. military and government has to go through more loops and hoops.

 

[tonyget]

Ex-US pilot thinks that J-36 is just a slightly better version of J-20

 

[mack8]

I think this kind of low quality YT "analysis" was estabilished not to be welcomed here to clutter threads for no use. You can see from the ..."intelligence" exulting from that guy's visage that he hardly has anything competent to say on the matter anyway.

 

[GiantCanofWater]

Unless you’re trying to learn about school topics, 99% of YouTube content about anything thats isn’t western is clickbait sensational titles with stupid information made just for the sole purpose of money. Completely non-credible. The only thing worse is Indian media when it comes to anything military related. It’s ridiculous you can see the exact formula on every video: a big red circle and big red arrows pointing at anything Chinese with the title WHY CHINA’S ____ SUCKS (insert optional “TAIWAN”).

 

[Antares545]

watched that shit ass video dude was like "it might be getting close to as stealthy as a f35" referring the the j36

 

[latenlazy]

Okay, if mods are reading this I really think it’s time to implement a YouTube content ban.

 

[Nevermore]

It's even a dedicated military channel, but the quality of the program and the comment section is so poor that it's almost kindergarten level. After watching the video, I felt like the folds of my brain were smoothed out.

 

[sequ]

Ex-US pilot thinks that J-36 is just a slightly better version of J-20

"Having the side by side setup. To me, as a former F-15E combat fighter pilot, having flown in that tandem setup, to me, it's just more user friendly having that tandem cockpit setup and having that 360° view. that's unimpeded by another person. No offense, bro, but I don't want to sit next to someone while I'm trying to do fighter operations, while I'm doing stealth targeting. I want to have a 360° target view around me so nothing is distracting from that."

4th gen dudebro who's unaware of 5th gen SA, let alone 6th gen SA. It's like a MiG-21F pilot dumping on an F-14/15/18.