No one wants untested engine, especially engine that was designed completely from scratch. F119 was in development for 13 years iirc, and it is in a country with practically unlimited money. And it might be the very first afterburning jet engine with variable bypass ratio, if rumors are true.
More new stuff found
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Reminds me USSR technique of introducing small gradual changes between “series” of aircrafts.
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Another change lmao
Change in canopy frame
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Production process becomes more and more refined, and this frame might help with RCS reduction.
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Repost from the flanker thread
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They look very good in the snow, peak looking jet fr.
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Sukhois are hefty bois, j-20 is also an absolute bus in terms of size
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that has to be a weird as hell perspective, from top down it doesn’t look as insane of a size difference
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Thats just baby J-20, China grows them domestically instead of manufacturing. I’ve heard it is way more efficient and environmentally friendly.
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Huh interesting
New intel, the upgraded su-57 might never get the “m” alphabet officially in the vks index…
Interesting, they also are slowly upgrading it instead of straight up bringing a new variant, as seen in this batch
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typical russian plane since the soviet.
gaijin isn’t giving us this lmao
Can we not. Lol, it’d be a bit much I feel.
Felon and Felix
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