ah ok. i was just thinking that with how other stealth jets liek YF-23 have really flat vertical stabilizer, the high dihedral could have a similar effect
Ik it’s still funny
Rafales Gripens and Eurofighters aren’t even 5th Gens
president #47 announces F-47. Pretty cool.
ps first impression: It looks ginormous, ~wingspan of a F-14 w/ wings out. Not a radar engineer but looks stealthy af. Huuuge cockpit, and tons of visibility. Larger weapon bay than F-35&F-22. Can’t deduce anything about the tail section like engines or vertical stabs. Canards.
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Yeah I think that was the problem with those two aircrafts. The bay just isn’t big enough to fit what the Air Force can make best in terms of long range AAMs.
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To add to Piano’s answer, yaw stability can be improved by positive wing sweep angle. When a plane yaws, the wings get different exposure to the incoming air. The more exposed wing gets pushed back, while the less exposed wing, of course, is pushed less, balancing the aircraft’s yaw axis.
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Oh wow I didn’t see that. Hopefully Northrop Grumman is on this one.
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Very likely imo,
Its one of the reasons why chinese fox 3s go further on paper, theyre significantly bigger than amraams. Meteor also is a bit bigger but not as much as a pl20 even pl15 is quite a big bigger tho not by much
first time heard this name, do you mean PL-17 or so called PL-21?
meteor goes far because it doesn’t carry its oxidizer
in terms of size it’s 190kg, not really remarkable
It would be interesting to have a cardboard mockup in WT, not really sure what it would be doing though aside from sitting in the Hanger on April Fools.
What do you mean by cardboard mockup?
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what???
All we have is a name and an artist’s render
,We don’t even know if this thing is in the air yet, what it’s powered by, what the cockpit looks like, what any of the avionics look like, where the pylons are, what armement it will carry, etc.
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Oh yes we do, it’s in the air already. And it has been since September 2020.
Besides my post isn’t a suggestion, only a discussion.
I’m presuming you’re referring to a 2022 article in which a high ranking officer stated that a plane designated as part of NGAD “has flown”.
That doesn’t really mean much since that’s 3 years prior to the contract being awarded to Boeing, and in that time NGAD was placed on Hiatus and sent back to the drawing board, Source:
For all we know the “F-47” as it has been designated is not going to be any of the testbeds that may have existed in the early 2020’s, point is, there is no concrete info about the thing.
yes
its helpful at high speed