There is always the next year on the horizon.
Its normal for test flight
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The landing gear is often down for a new jet’s first flight
See T-50, KF-21, J-20, TAI TF Kaan, B-21 first flight photos.
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Jesus, slow down China! Stop speedrunning the tech-tree! XD
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idk y but 6th gen designs are so ugly lmao
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I prefer the SAC’s design shape over the CAC’s.
But that’s just from the blurry belly photos … opinion might change when more clearer & up-close images surface.
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Just because it’s large and looks stealthy doesn’t automatically make it a 6th gen fighter, if I had to guess it’s a wingman drone like the nEUROn.
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I have a hunch, its a big optionally manned airframe.
The cockpit glass structure lacks the usual “transparency” … but that’s from the blurry photos.
This looks a lot of the nEUROn’s air intake, the edges come around to contour and make shadows, which could be mistaken as a cockpit. That’s just my theory though.
Why would it have 2 air intakes on the top? There is already an air intake so theres no point of putting another one in front of it. So I dont think that part is an air intake.
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The rare Type-74 105mm SPH.
An even rarer video surfaced demonstrating its rapid-fire capability, of firing shells every 4~5 seconds.
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If it does have 3 engines it may use the 2 underside intakes for engines that power supersonic flight and the top ones for engines that power subsonic flight.
That would be needlessly complicated though. The whole design seems a little over engineered imo.
dosent look to bad , but i really hate 3 engine fighter planes , 2 max is my limit
M116 Husky Davy Crockett Carrier
But instead of firing the 280mm M388 nuclear round (duh) in WT … it can fire the 280mm M390 non-nuclear round, which had 7.3kg(!) of Comp B HE … i.e more boom than KV-2’s HE round.
It can act as tracked open-top HE-slinging TD. Like Ho-Ro and at around 1.3~1.7 BR
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why settle for non-nuclear lol
well … you gotta survive as well and not get blown away from your own launched round
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I personally like to see the M4A3 (75)W at around 4.0 after the M4A1/M4/M4A2 folder
Here’s the suggestion for it M4A3 (75) W: American Workhorse - #10 by Gura_Gawr
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I would much prefer the Davy Crockett on the M116 platform rather than the better known jeep mount, as I presume the former would have a higher ammunition count.
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China in such a jolly spirit they built a flying Christmas tree!
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It should be a high speed design, combined with huge radar(seems huge multi array)the huge PL-17 missile, making it an overwhelming BVR killer. subsonic flight performance is not needed for it, and this kind of aerodynamic shape is good at stealth and speed, not mobility.
3rd intake in back is to make space for it’s huge missile bay. there are also some guess about its middle engine could be ramjet engine.
But I think it’s more like a test plane, it may need 10 years to get it’s full potential capbility, like mixed engine and other things, but it’s current condition still make it the best fighter in the world now.
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