Same aircraft or no? Looks like wing sweep changed. Variable geometry wings back to life?
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By the looks just different angle of the photo
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Source of the photo?
That should be the H-20, if it is a real photo.
worse F-111?
Pretty sure the F-111 has the radar signature of an overfed herd of cows
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looks a hell of a lot cooler though, with same cockpit style
everyone has their favorites ╮(￣▽￣"")╭
can the Chengdu do this :P
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Is the F-111 still heavily classified?
some of it probably still is
i doubt the chengdu can dump and burn though
and i doubt it can carry over 30 thousand pounds of weapons
35k for the FB-111A, also dont think the Chengdu can carry 6 nukes with a top speed of mach 2.5
I think every stealth strike fighter has less payload capability than the previous generation, but it is a payoff in many situations
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funny enough the F-111 has internal bomb bays. and apparently one time IAS was mach 3.2 at 60k feet in an F-111. so it is a 6th gen air supremacy fighter in disguise as a 3rd generation tactical bomber
So you just don’t understand modern aircraft? So a troll pretty much? F-111 was a failure in service, the costs alone made it a failure for the insane amount of maintenance needed. It was no fighter, it was a bomber, a fast bomber. The Su-34 is more comparable to it and still blows it out of the water.
The new Chengdu aircraft is a heavy fighter for a lack of a better word. It is meant as both A2A BVR supremacy and extreme long range deep penetration strikes in very contested airspace. It’s looking like it’s a loadout of 4x Pl-17 and 4x Pl-15 (some claim 6x PL-17 while others claim 6x Pl-15 instead) while having a very small RCS, claimed smaller than the J-20 by a significant margin. Can the F-111 achieve air superiority by striking AWECS 300-500km away? No. Can the F-111 penetrate contested air space with SAM’s and adversary 5th generation fighters? No.
Now, since I’m sure you are well aware of why the F-111 != good aircraft, maybe we can keep this thread back on topic, and not further derail it USfanboyisms?
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once they sorted out initial flaws it was a great bomber/strike aircraft, as seen in gulf war.
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the Su-34 entered service in 2014, the F-111F was retired in 1996
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can the Chengdu dump and burn? no
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we know fuck all about this thing and yall are already making a post about it wtf
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Video if it flying
