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 Posted: Sep 16, 2012 - 05:49 PM
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| Here's the latest Chinese take on VLO fighter design (a 4-poster). However, according to Axe (certainly not a favorite of mine),
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if the airplane revealed this weekend is the new J-21, then what exactly is the partially-disassembled, shrink-wrapped airplane photographed being trucked through Chinese cities back in June? When that plane first appeared, some observers thought it was the J-21 being shipped in pieces to an airfield for assembly and testing. But the differences between it and Shenyang’s new prototype are too big and numerous for the two to be directly related. Whatever the June jet is, it remains mostly unseen and, to outsiders, entirely unknown.
In other words, China has just pulled the cover off its second type of stealth fighter. But it may already have a third in the works.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/09 ... ealth-jet/
Here's Sweetman's take on the thing, which he sees as what the F-35 could have been if not under the constraints of single-engine design and STOVL. http://www.aviationweek.com/Blogs.aspx? ... e20a1cb3e5 |
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Posted: Sep 16, 2012 - 06:39 PM
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| The emblem in the pictures matches CGI work from people on the same board it was outed from. Coincidence? |
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Posted: Sep 16, 2012 - 06:44 PM
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madrat wrote:
The emblem in the pictures matches CGI work from people on the same board it was outed from. Coincidence?
You mean this board?
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/i ... 9.120.html
Long thread; dating back to well before the latest pictures. |
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Posted: Sep 16, 2012 - 08:45 PM
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Posted: Sep 16, 2012 - 09:07 PM
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 $700 million per plane??!! Will this arithmetic madness in the press never end?  At least he was nice enough to add "depending on how you count". Yeah...that New Math always bites me in the a$$.   |
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Posted: Sep 17, 2012 - 05:23 AM
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LinkF16SimDude wrote:
When Wired tallies up the cost of a weapon system that isn't an RC toy, they tend to include development, flyaway, projected lifecycle maintenance, and upgrades. Hell, they'd probably include static-display costs after retirement if they had the numbers. |
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