its a fighter bomber
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It’s like a B-2, J-20, F-111, and F-107 had a child
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not really, basically a air cruiser, supersonic cruising, hunting AWACS refueller or enemy 5th gen from flank. Of course it can carry some large AGMs, but it’s like MIG-31, you won’t call that a fighter bomber isn’t it?
parallel seats like that enables better communication to do things like commanding drones or do AWACS job
well, side by side seating is almost completely used on aircraft with a significant focus on ground attack, F-111, Su-25, Su-34, A-37, A-6, B-21 etc
or SEAD/EW like EF-111 and EA-6B
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you need to know why they choose side by side seats. It’s basically sacrifice aerodynamic performance/dog fight vision field for better communication(SU-34, A-6, A-37, EA-6), or just the plane is big enough that side by side seating won’t influence aerodynamic performance(Bombers like F-111, B-2, and they also need crews communications too).
in this case, it’s totally not a dog fighter, it’s the Shenyang 6th’s job, and it’s big enough.
On the other hand, if you are not a dog fighter, and a smaller plane need reduce drag, you can always choose side by side.
it also makes the fuselage wider to fit the big DSI on top
or its the other way around
but yeah i think crew communication will be very important for this one’s role, which leads me to think it wont be very a2a focused at all, probably drones or awacs or some kind of special strike role like you said
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maybe, there are signs that both 6th gen integrated the cockpit and fuselage into the intake design.
not traditional A2A, focus on this 👇
but since it already a really expensive plane with all the ability of doing this 👆, it will also be easy for it to do something like long range SEAD and special strike jobs, but it’s just overqualified to just use all these huge radars and other fancy equipments to just do A2G.
A2A comes first, then it benefits A2G.
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although former long range a2a platforms (F-14, Tornado a2a variants, F-4 with its sparrows, MiG-31) all had front and back seating, it makes sense for the J-36 to have side by side since it has to be really wide to fit all its weaponry and sensors as well as the 3 engines
i think we could see a J-36D (i think thats the Chinese way of designating EW/SEAD variant right?) in a decade or less
IDK, I mean, there isn’t even any 5th gen EW planes, part because they integrated much of this ability already, also you can’t just hang a bunch of EW pods in stealth plane and ask them to do EW works, it’s like making them a lighthouse and lose their advantage.
As for SEAD, it is just already stealth plane’s advantage, they are stealth, so can get closer and attack.
using the weapons bay or removing it to hold EW equipment is a possibility especially with the bigger ones on something like the J-36
this would also allow the J-36 to have much longer ranged EW than other platforms and once it sees a counterattack it has much better chances of survival than something like a J-16D
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maybe. but in this case, you won’t need a D version
well, i dont think they can make an effective EW system with a completely internal setup. i think theyd have to modify the bay area to have a bulge for the antenna and other bits that have to be in the open, similar to EOTS
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it may depends how many built-in antennas are already in the skin, J-36’s EOTS is already internal. but considering it’s just a prototype, extra antennas may still not installed
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yeah, it could also be fully internal but only be able to jam downwards. from my understanding of radars and EW stuff theyd have to make a small bulge to be able to jam effectively to the sides, back and to the front, though the main radar of the J-36 could also take over the frontal area its still good to have more jammers to use against many targets
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US’ M4A3-VVSS based Sherman Firefly prototype
Can’t be a standard TT vehicle but, to which nation should it go?
I vote as a event vehicle for US
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How about a JU 88-P1 (75mm cannon)
Pretty much a duck with better engines
Or the prototype JU 88-P5 with a 88mm…
Hand loaded so wouldn’t be to crazy right?
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Is that 88 'shopped?
Shopped as in photoshopped? Idk tbh, was looking at info on the p1 and the p5 kept getting mentioned. After googleing it, i came across different sources claiming different things. So is the photo fake or even connected the the p5 name? I have no clue. Didn’t put afford into researching what the p5 actually was.
How do you even find these? haha
Will soon be added to:
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