J-20 5th Gen Fighter Thread V

[SteelBird]

Not to crash your wonderful moment here but it could've been an image rotated by ~90 degrees.

I think the bird in this photo was not climbing, it probably was making a high G turn. Note the turbulence.

 

[Deino]

You guys have to read the Chinese more carefully. The original blog, which was mine, clearly said those are construction number, which might suggest the 00 batch 11th aircraft.

To admit, my Chinese is not the best (actually non-existent) so I beg Your pardon when I only used Your quote here in this thread, where it is called "serial number".

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Anyway, this number XX0011 fits nicely to the usual CAC construction number. IMO it could be a hint for XX = 20 (aka J-20) ???, batch 00 (= LRIP) aircraft no. 11 !

Deino

 

[Equation]

Not to crash your wonderful moment here but it could've been an image rotated by ~90 degrees.

Perhaps, but the picture is still beautiful though.

 

[lllchairmanlll]

First official photo revealed by PLAAF weibo.

 

[delft]

I think the bird in this photo was not climbing, it probably was making a high G turn. Note the turbulence.

Note the tip vortices: high angle of attack so probably high G turn.
lllchairmanlll's picture shows vortices of different strength so the aircraft is turning on its long axis.

 

[Richard Santos]

First official photo revealed by PLAAF weibo.View attachment 33499

It appears the J-20 has a different style of camouflage on the upper surface than the lower one. The upper surface has jagged, sharp edged patterns, the lower a soft mottled pattern.

 

[Richard Santos]

The pyramidal shaped electro-optical sensor turret under the chin appears to be non-operational and covered with an opaque cover on the bird in flight, although the electro-optical window under the belly and on the dorsal spin appears to be transparent and therefore possibly operative.

 

[Deino]

The pyramidal shaped electro-optical sensor turret under the chin appears to be non-operational and covered with an opaque cover on the bird in flight, although the electro-optical window under the belly and on the dorsal spin appears to be transparent and therefore possibly operative.

Indeed IMO it's only a cover; maybe to hide that item at Zhuhai.

 

[Air Force Brat]

Indeed IMO it's only a cover; maybe to hide that item at Zhuhai.

Likely so, there are things on this bird they don't want folks examining too closely, recall NO ONE, was allowed to photo the nozzles on the F-22, there were guards stationed, and people who tried were challenged!

 

[vesicles]

It appears the J-20 has a different style of camouflage on the upper surface than the lower one. The upper surface has jagged, sharp edged patterns, the lower a soft mottled pattern.

My guess is that they may be intended to emulate cloud patterns... You will see its belly with the sky and clouds as the back drop when you look up (as shown in the photo). So they want the belly camo pattern to emulate sky and cloud.

When you are above the J-20 and look down, you will see the J-20's top with ground as the background. So they have a pattern that emulates the jagged ground features (farm land, mountain patches, etc).

This is the same as fish in the ocean. Most fish have dark back (to blend in with the dark ocean bottom when you look down on them) and light belly (to blend in with the bright sky at the ocean surface when you look up). Natural camo...