The turkey country actually publicly made its first flight of their so-called 5th generation stealth aircraft! If it can still fly, then this is already the world's 7th "5th generation aircraft". This does not count the YF23 and Sweden's early stealth concept aircraft, nor does it count the so-called Su-75 of the northern powers. That is, for the time being, only the F22 and F35 series are recognized; There are 6 types of Su-57, 20, 31 to 35, and KF21 in the south of the peninsula, which has already begun mass production. Naturally, the current first flight can squeeze out a 7th place. Ranked seventh on the list, it is easy to think of Fan Jin, who is middle-aged in his 40s, and then goes crazy after winning the first lift, and I don't know if this model will get a nickname of "Air Fan Jin" in the future. Be careful, this is the global original of this article! If you look back on the long and complex research and development history of this model before its first flight, it is really not much worse than Fan Jin, who has worked hard for more than 20 years, and the difficulties and twists and turns are enough to write a long story. But in this world, the vast majority of people only look at the results and do not look at the process.
So what is the real level of this 5th-generation stealth machine that has just been shortlisted? Among the existing 7 types of stealth machines, how many can they rank? If you pick it up first, then this is a twin-engine heavy stealth machine. That is to say, it adopts a double large thrust engine, and its maximum take-off weight is expected to easily exceed 30 tons, and even has the possibility of being on par with the 35-ton class, or directly surpassing. This alone, in principle, can be classified with F22, a certain 20 and Su-57, and the surface indicators directly exceed the other 3 stealth aircraft, it can be said that the theoretical starting point is quite high, and it also directly shows the strategic ambition of the research and development side. However, the so-called bright spot that can be found so far is only this one. Everything else is a variety of deficiencies that are visible to the naked eye. So what are the shortcomings that can be directly observed and inferred? First, although the aircraft appeared as a heavy-duty aircraft with double large thrust, it used two F110 engines exported by the superpower to complete its first flight. And the F110 engine of the **,
It can only be a backup of the standard engines of the country's more than 300 F16 fighter jets, or a refurbished version of the replacement. Moreover, the first flight with the F110 engine may not have the consent or approval of the original party of the engine; It is more difficult to obtain long-term technical support in the future. The most important thing is that the F110 can only be regarded as a standard 3rd generation thrust, and its thrust-to-weight ratio and other parameters cannot meet the basic requirements of heavy stealth aircraft. Therefore, if the project is to complete the technical test flight and achieve mass production, the fourth-generation advanced engine supporting it is a huge obstacle that is difficult to overcome. It is simply unrealistic to expect the turkey country to develop its own advanced 4th or even 5th generation in the next ten years, so it can only import ready-made models from other large countries. The problem is that the superpower's F119 engines have long been discontinued; The existing one is installed on the F22, which belongs to a radish and a pit, and there is no extra number at all; In addition, the Congress has long cut off the possibility of F119 sales to the outside world. And there is no big push project in Europe at all;
The big push of the big northern countries is a long-term technology half-baked and limited production. At present, the only one in the world that has fully met the technical standards and produced considerable output seems to be a certain Type 15 advanced engine. However, with the national reputation of the turkey country as the best at crossing rivers and demolishing bridges, it is really difficult to imagine that a certain Type 15 advanced engine will be exported and installed on this model in batches, which is tantamount to artificially supporting an overseas competitor for itself. Therefore, this model, the future demand for large push engines, is extremely difficult to solve, and it is not as good as honestly using advanced pushes such as F414. In addition to the biggest shortcoming of the engine, the advanced phased array radar and advanced missiles that cannot be seen from the outside are not something that the turkey country can do by itself in a short period of time. Fortunately, the difficulty of introducing radar and supporting armaments is significantly less than that of the big push engine itself, after all, Europe still has shelf products in this regard. The third major shortcoming, and the relatively easiest to solve, is the problem of aerodynamics and shape, after all, there are already so many ready-made stealth fighters in front
Even if you beat it by hand, you can also draw a tiger like a cat, right? But even if you learn and sell the appearance, you may not be able to pass the test at one time. First of all, the aircraft does not use the most advanced DSI air intake, but directly imitates the overweight, F22A-like Gartlet air intake; And its tail nozzle also has no ability to imitate the binary stealth mode of the F22A, and can only be exposed like a third-generation aircraft. From the first flight picture, the main bomb bay and side bomb bay of the abdomen cannot be seen; Perhaps this is simply not the technical depth that the first flight prototype can take into account. Its vertical tail does not imitate the large trapezoidal shape of the F22A forward leaning, let alone a full-motion small vertical tail, but a fixed trapezoidal vertical tail similar to the F35. The most incongruous thing is that the horizontal tail with a huge drift and the tail boom connecting the horizontal tail are both big and speechless. Therefore, the overall image of the side of this model can be called nondescript! Some people have commented on its side styling, which is by far the ugliest of all stealth machines! It's well deserved. It's just a side ugly point; But necessarily,
It will bring great trouble to the static instability of the whole machine! Because the flat tail is too large, the F22A is prone to uncontrollable oscillation near the ground, and at least 3 aircraft have crashed. And now this first aircraft is obviously 5% larger than the flat tail of the F22A, I really don't know if it will directly drive the technicians who wrote the flight control crazy in the future. All in all, although the machine has been developing with heavy machinery from the beginning, the comprehensive technical level that has been shown so far can only be said to be Dongshi Xiaofeng and the crane tail!