It looks like a mix of the hornet, f-5 and f-16
It can be added at some point but it’d likely end up as a 13.3 and perform very similarly to the JF-17 so it’s not exactly what Chinese top tier air needs right now imo
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Yeah, the only places where there’s really a lot of domestic design deiversity left for 4th gen (+) would be USA, USSR and China. Others either rely on imports and/or only very few distinct designs.
We sadly got to the point where only superpowers can afford to make prototypes for aircraft unless a nation really wants to commit to one design.
So a lot of the game now will probably have to rely more on midifications/variants rather than new airframes.
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On no.
Has a X band radar plus some pretty good Fox3’s so I doubt "IF"it came it would be 13.3 IMO
As we have said multiple times now. Nothing is fully final. We were speaking about initial plans.
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Because it is and some bunch of other taiwanese stuffs.
It gonna be an aircraft with an old mechanical radar while with a next gen BVR Missile like an Aim-120D…
There’s at least Turkey potentially as a subtree (maybe Italy?) with KAAN, future KF-21 Block 3 for a future Korean tree and if we get more Yak-141 cases then things like Japans 5th gen F-X (and equivalents for other nations)
Also Britain and Israel can at least get unique weapons for the F-35, so there’s that at least.
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Perhaps 13.7 depending on how the Skysword II performs, but it’s slow like the JF-17 and doesn’t have HMD so I was thinking it’d perform pretty similarly (Also the exact same missile count being 4 arh 2 ir max)
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Ai.
I think the Kaan is probably too early in development for them to consider it but KF-21 would be really nice to see and perhaps things like the Su-47 and such if they add more 141 esque aircraft (even MiG 1.44 if they bend the rules enough, but Su-47 is a lot more likely since it actually had an internal bay and radome)
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20:10 here… must witness… teaser… (and/or “guess list”!)
Don’t
Definitely “AI” 🥀
Btw these images date back to 2024 as far as I can tell before AI was even good enough to produce such image.
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I guess we’re just calling everything AI now
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Chinese tech tree JF-17 in the works? I know it’s no J-15/16 but like… 🥲
Could it carry the additional 4 from the f15ge?
Honestly I hope they add a tech tree JF-17 Block III at some point with PL-15’s when those missiles come
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Doesn’t that also have a max load of 12?
Yes but it trades 2 bomb hardpoints to do it
And can only carry aim120c in those two Pylons(most likly aim120D too but not a or b)