Chinese Stealth Fighter/Bomber

[Crazy Eddie]

TV stations too lazy to procure actual footage of the thing they're reporting on?

What a relief. And here I thought American journalists were loosing their touch; turns out it's a global phenomenon.

 

[Switch]

Am I still the only one who thinks that thing is hideous?

You are now.

PAK FA is still the more interesting program though. Check out this shit:

Sukhoi patent talks of LO of engine guts from the backdoor

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is short, no mechanical devices are used per se, pilot or ESM just activates 'stealth mode' that swivel TVC nozzle to position that prevents (well, should prevent) enemy radar/IR seeker to see hot and RCS-yummy stuff inside the engine back, moreover, nozzle can swivel by some calculated pattern (not unlike those you see in videos when Su-37 or MiG-29OVT are checking nozzles prior to flight) controlled by FBW according to what ESM says to FBW brains. of course, to compensate that nozzle weird dance, FBW uses aerodynamic controls to flight straight&level or perform a planned maneuver.

So much for the conventional wisdom that 3D thrust vectoring and engine/nozzle signature management are mutually exclusive. Course it's probably not as effective on the signature management side as simply shielding/shaping the engine/nozzles as on F-22, but the Russians are certainly coming up with some creative ideas for PAK FA.