Considering it'll likely get less exports than the F-35 we'll probably not learn much about its performance that the Chinese govt doesn't want us to know. Still, it looks way more aggressively optimised for RCS than the F-35 in regards to its fuselage design. Looks a lot like some of the American stealth bombers versus a multirole fighter.

The pancake-ification of stealth aircraft makes me wonder, though. Does this not give you a massive radar cross section at adverse angles to incoming radar? You might benefit on the entry into enemy air space but making turns will light you up immediately. Then there's the question of potentially placing radar arrays at wide angles (for example, using AWAACS to loiter radar above the expected ceiling of incoming aircraft) so you fly right under or over detection systems

[–] Scarry@hexbear.net 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Does this not give you a massive radar cross section at adverse angles to incoming radar?

Then there's the question of potentially placing radar arrays at wide angles

My layman understand is that Ansar Allah did something similar to this +tracking exhaust heat to get close to hitting the F-35? Comrade @MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net does that sound right?

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 weeks ago

I wonder if they also studied how the Serbs shot down nighthawks back in the day. I imagine the yankees also fell into making the same mistakes under the assumption of superiority too.

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