I feel like a more conservative answer is that the HUD is just very thin in profile and mostly obscured by the internal canopy frame
Shenyang next gen combat aircraft (?J-XDS)
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I feel like a more conservative answer is that the HUD is just very thin in profile and mostly obscured by the internal canopy frame
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Weapon bays on top???
... it reminds me of the small bays of the PL-10!, but also that little bay near the engine looks like it could hold a missile too, obviously it couldn't, but why does it look like a missile bay?
also, I'm not sure if I'm just retarded. But how does the wheel go back into the aircraft when it's like this, instead of being directly on the bottom. Like the J-20.
Is the aircraft's nose landing gear designed with dual wheels because of its heavier maximum takeoff weight? I understand it's still far from being modified for carrier operations. I estimate this aircraft's maximum takeoff weight to be around 40 tons.
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Weapon bays on top???
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also, I'm not sure if I'm just retarded. But how does the wheel go back into the aircraft when it's like this, instead of being directly on the bottom. Like the J-20.
Two piece landing gear door like this one
We can see that there are porous panels on both the top and bottom of the fuselage, and there must be a channel connecting the two panels. By this way, the low-pressure area above the fuselage can draw away the boundary layer below the fuselage at the air intake. This also proves the authenticity of this photo,as no CG artist has ever considered this detail before.
Just noticed how many doors are on this J-50 prototype, maybe a lot of them are doors for missiles? If you have empty space in an aircraft, possibly they are trying to fill every space with missiles. But I doubt it, it's probably for maintenance?