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Chengdu next gen combat aircraft (?J-36)
- Thread starter Blitzo
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It'll be such a shame if they are removing the burried exhaust for something more conventional like J-XDS's nozzles.
Doesn't look as good as the first airframe
What could be the reason for changing the nozzle? Perhaps PLA felt the 2D TVC wasn't beneficial enough in this case to warrant the increase in weight and reduction in thrust? Ala the situation with J-20A and WS-15?
Why would they do that, fully burried exhaust is the best at radar and IR signature management. I see no reason to move to a worse alternative.
maybe they're just testing buried 2D TVC vs normal 2D TVC or round nozzles? Doesn't mean they're going to go without the buried nozzles on the final design right? Or maybe it's not a complete airframe?
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In the channels they only had partial TVC (top only), now it can have full 2D TVC. Also YF-23 had issues with heating in the channels.
Doesn't seem like a sound argument IMO, J-36 is pretty clearly not meant for extreme manuverbility. The channels could likely provide enough thrust vectoring trimming while supercruising and in a tailless fighter you would likely want yaw TVC instead of pitch. With how great the Chinese material science is right now surely heating issues with the exhaust could be solved, the Americans are almost definitely going to end up with burried channel for their 6th gen.
From a video, though you can barely make anything out of it.
