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The real gold is the article linked halfway through http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-2011-03.html http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-2011-03.html
by waiseristy 9y ago
The real gold is the article linked halfway through
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-2011-03.html http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-2011-03.html
- mr_spothawk 9y ago> This study has therefore established through Physical Optics simulation across nine radio-frequency bands, that no fundamental obstacles exist in the shaping design of the J-20 prototype precluding its development into a genuine Very Low Observable design.
- waiseristy 9y agoWell I read that 3 or 4 times and still don't understand it, but the pictures sure are pretty!
- olympus 9y agoThey turned all the pictures we have of the prototypes into a 3D model and ran radar simulations on it. They concluded that China has developed an actual stealth plane and not just one that looks pretty. As opposed to the "stealth" plane that Iran unveiled a few years back that doesn't fly and isn't shaped right. They were just imitating shapes they had seen before and didn't put it together right.
- gnode 9y agoThis mirrors the impression I got when I first saw the pictures of it. The round nozzles can't be good for its radar profile (as from a wide range of angles, there's a significant surface area facing the observer). I expect any radar engineer is aware of this, so I wonder why such a trade-off was made.