South Korean KAI KF-X fighter

Stealth fighters often modify the stealth coating on their noses based on the characteristics of their onboard radar.
Clearly, the KF21 hasn't considered this at all.

Are those two wersions (on pictures from posts before this one)? Canopy is lifted forward and aft

Philister said:

I low key like this thing, it’s not that stealthy but still far better than standard 3/3.5gen, and it is fairly priced ,I would choose this bird over rafale without hesitation.

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Until KF-21EX/EA appears, frankly, it's all-round worse than euro canards, much later. Or, to be exact, it's an overly delayed, severely underoptimized, land-based Super Hornet.

It's totally OK if you remember it's only a KF-16 replacement, and as such it's a huge step forward for South Korea. But due to this stealthy shaping, people expect way more of it than it was even meant to achieve ("western J-35" narrative).

And then come at koreans disappointed for failing to achieve that. For stealth aircraft, it's nothing more than a demonstrator. As a nonstealth aircraft, it's still a demonstrator pushed into front line service to get experience and plug a reasonable niche.