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Pictures of the Chinese J-50 prototype. Looks as if China is going all in on stealth, but not so much on ACM though?

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Nice Stick said:
Pictures of the Chinese J-50 prototype. Looks as if China is going all in on stealth, but not so much on ACM though?

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I hope that Chinese planespotter is enjoying the labor camp...

Anyway, the Chinese are of the opinion that ACM is essentially irrelevant in 2025, hell, from the J-20 onwards, they haven't even put guns in their fighters. Note that the J-35 MAY have a port / room for one although it's unconfirmed.

The the 30-50g capable missiles do the turning, this isn't 1965-1973 anymore, or even 1992, modern A2A missiles are absolutely insane vs stuff from even the Gulf War.

I still think a canon with ~150-200 shells or even 400+ if you're rocking an M61 Vulcan is useful, especially as fighter get canons aren't actually that big and don't add too much weight, all things considered and don't take up a pylon/internal bay room.

This J-50 is very interesting looking.
 
Military sperging adjacent:

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Fucking lol. Mr. Cooper's primary goal is book sales (and sperging on his Substack, usual about Trump and Israel) , so of course he's going to guzzle the jizz of 1.45 billion Indians. I expect his book (with Indian co-authors) will be a literal haigography about the invincible Indian Air force..... Coming this winter of course.
 
Would anyone here happen to know what the North Korean air force looks like these days? Are they still rocking the Fresco and the Fishbed or have they managed to get their hands on Fulcrums and Foxbats/hounds?
 
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
Would anyone here happen to know what the North Korean air force looks like these days? Are they still rocking the Fresco and the Fishbed or have they managed to get their hands on Fulcrums and Foxbats/hounds?
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They've had MiG-29s for ages, and are supposedly still using old 2nd and 3rd generation jets. The old birds are probably just reserve/training/mothballed at this point, a Fresco is pretty much useless at this point in all but the most low intensity conflicts, in which you'd rather a dedicated COIN aircraft anyway rather than those thirsty old beasts. The Fulcrums have supposedly been upgraded, but details are spotty, who knows if some are still rocking the ol smokey engines, only being upgraded as spares run out.
The Nork AF is pretty ignored these days. I suppose both they and we realise that it's so hopelessly obsolete that it's going to be wiped out pretty quick in a serious hot conflict, but a token force can be far better than no force with how it forces your enemy to waste far more resources to counter it. If they want SU-35s and other such more capable aircraft, I'd say the waiting list is pretty long as of right now.
Of course, the most powerful weapon the Norks have is time, wait a few more decades and the South will depopulate itself from catastrophic fertility collapse and Best Korea will win by default.
 
Hatewerfer said:
They've had MiG-29s for ages, and are supposedly still using old 2nd and 3rd generation jets. The old birds are probably just reserve/training/mothballed at this point, a Fresco is pretty much useless at this point in all but the most low intensity conflicts, in which you'd rather a dedicated COIN aircraft anyway rather than those thirsty old beasts. The Fulcrums have supposedly been upgraded, but details are spotty, who knows if some are still rocking the ol smokey engines, only being upgraded as spares run out.
The Nork AF is pretty ignored these days. I suppose both they and we realise that it's so hopelessly obsolete that it's going to be wiped out pretty quick in a serious hot conflict, but a token force can be far better than no force with how it forces your enemy to waste far more resources to counter it. If they want SU-35s and other such more capable aircraft, I'd say the waiting list is pretty long as of right now.
Of course, the most powerful weapon the Norks have is time, wait a few more decades and the South will depopulate itself from catastrophic fertility collapse and Best Korea will win by default.
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A few months ago S. Korea and the USA reported that the NK AF has a massive exercise/drill where that had ~150 aircraft airborne at once.

That's usually estimated as a the maximum or near maximum amount of airframes they have operational.

Their Fulcrum fleet is 1990s vintage and some say that only have 19 airframes total.

They bought 36-40 low flight hour Mig-21bis from one of the Stans in the late 1990s.

They have a few Su-25 squadrons too and a few dozen second Gen (aka not shit) Mig-23MLs

Beyond that, their air force is essentially a flying museum of absolutely useless Chinese Mig-19 clones, Gen 1-2 Mig-21s and their Chinese clones and.... That's it.

Allegedly part of the payment for the Norks help in Ukraine will be a few dozen Su-30s, Su-34s and Su-35s to get their air force into the 2010s lol.
 
Falcos_Commisar said:
Military sperging adjacent:

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Fucking lol. Mr. Cooper's primary goal is book sales (and sperging on his Substack, usual about Trump and Israel) , so of course he's going to guzzle the jizz of 1.45 billion Indians. I expect his book (with Indian co-authors) will be a literal haigography about the invincible Indian Air force..... Coming this winter of course.
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Multiple authors means he's barely writing anything if he's cranking it out that fast. Lol. Literally jeetslop in book form
 
Meriasek said:
I dare you to look at an F14 Tomcat and not get a raging erection.
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I respect the Tomcat for being the only good USN fighter (that wasn't shared with the USAF) of the entire Cold War but it's an ugly hangar queen and not even homoerotic beach volleyball could make me like it.
 
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
Would anyone here happen to know what the North Korean air force looks like these days? Are they still rocking the Fresco and the Fishbed or have they managed to get their hands on Fulcrums and Foxbats/hounds?
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There has been talk of North Korea co-financing the MiG-35 program to get full-scale production going, but I don't think this has gone anywhere, and I would be surprised if it ever did.
 
The Grognard said:
I do wonder if they get some ASMs for them, they might be able to be a useful assets against any amphibious assaults with that.
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They field HY-1s so not exactly the biggest threat in the world. Maybe to merchant shipping but not any "modern" navy
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
Well I'd hope to god the replacement is better than the incumbent otherwise what's the point?
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To prop Boeing up because they can't build a plane either that's on time or within budget or even both (*cough* 787 Dreamliner *cough*)
 
Anduril's YFQ-44A "Fury" prototype flight testing in Victorville, CA. (reddit)

"In terms of targeted performance, Blue Force Technologies had designed Fury to be able to fly at altitudes up to 50,000 feet and at transonic speeds of up to around Mach 0.95. The goal was for the airframe to be able to perform at up to +9 Gs and down to -3 Gs for short periods, and be able to pull +4.5 Gs for more sustained portions of its flight while operating at around 20,000 feet, all depending on the drone’s exact loadout." https://www.twz.com/the-rise-of-fury

"Where does the payload go?"
"It doesn't have internal weapons bays, it carries two AMRAAMs on external hardpoints."

"it literally has AI on the rudder. wow."
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WelperHelper99 said:
Multiple authors means he's barely writing anything if he's cranking it out that fast. Lol. Literally jeetslop in book form
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Yep. With the amount of sperging he does on Facebook, his Substack (sometimes writing some pretty detailed stuff, or just Trump posting/Israel sperging) and so on..... Dude ain't writing more than 20% of that book and is giving it a once over to catch egregious mistakes.

Gotta get that BHARAT #1 SUPERPOWER MONEY 🤑 💰
Welf Welf said:
There has been talk of North Korea co-financing the MiG-35 program to get full-scale production going, but I don't think this has gone anywhere, and I would be surprised if it ever did.
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Yeah that's never happening.

The Mig-35 stopped being relevant a decade ago when Russia essentially announced they'll never buy them. It's doubtful there are more than 10 Mig-35s on Earth. Even then, it's just a Mig-29 with a better radar and slightly upgraded engines.

Countries that choose between the Mig-29 and the Su-27/30/35 always pick the Sukhoi unless they need a carrier capable jet (India) and even India has admitted that he Mig-29K is mediocre at best.

Egypt bought what's probably the last export order for Mig-29s ever and they only bought them for access to the R-77 missile and as leverage against the West (see West we can get jets from other people)
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Remember everyone, Anduril literally just bought the company that makes this a few years ago and they're behind the "big dumb dinosaur" Defense contractor they're competing against lol (General Atomics YFQ-42a)


Oh and Russia got 2 (batches are 2-6 aircraft) more Su-35s last week



So that's at least 12 Su-35s in 2025.... Talk about a production line that's firing on all cylinders.
 
Falcos_Commisar said:
Yeah that's never happening.

The Mig-35 stopped being relevant a decade ago when Russia essentially announced they'll never buy them. It's doubtful there are more than 10 Mig-35s on Earth. Even then, it's just a Mig-29 with a better radar and slightly upgraded engines.
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Well and then on top of that the question is "finance it with what, exactly?" North Korea isn't exactly known for it's GDP or it's manufacturing or technical prowess.
 
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