F35 vs. A10?

F35 vs A10?

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Re: F35 vs. A10?

Post by Speaker to Animals » Fri Mar 22, 2019 8:23 pm

Smitty-48 wrote:
Fri Mar 22, 2019 8:23 pm
Those canards are not stealth. It's not a stealth fighter, it's fake.
Nonsense.

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Re: F35 vs. A10?

Post by Smitty-48 » Fri Mar 22, 2019 8:25 pm

There's no way those canards are stealth, it's fake news.
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Re: F35 vs. A10?

Post by Speaker to Animals » Fri Mar 22, 2019 8:26 pm

Smitty-48 wrote:
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There's no way those canards are stealth, it's fake news.
What makes you believe canards are somehow stealth killers but stabilizers are not? LOL

They are literally just moving control surfaces to a different position on the aircraft.

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Re: F35 vs. A10?

Post by Speaker to Animals » Fri Mar 22, 2019 8:29 pm

One of the stealthiest prototypes ever made (publicly):

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Re: F35 vs. A10?

Post by Smitty-48 » Fri Mar 22, 2019 8:29 pm

There's no way those canards can be stealth, it's a flying Potemkin Village, wise up.
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Re: F35 vs. A10?

Post by Speaker to Animals » Fri Mar 22, 2019 8:31 pm

Smitty-48 wrote:
Fri Mar 22, 2019 8:29 pm
There's no way those canards can be stealth, it's a flying Potemkin Village, wise up.
You have no idea what the fuck you are talking about again.

Any aircraft requires control surfaces for pitch and roll. When you put those control surfaces in the tail, they are called stabilizers. When you put them forward of the wings, they are called canards. There are various reasons for doing one or the other, but stealth is not one of them. If the canard breaks stealth, then so does the stabilizer.

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Re: F35 vs. A10?

Post by Smitty-48 » Fri Mar 22, 2019 8:33 pm

Everything the Chinese put out is fake, J-31 too.

They are just copying the look of the American 5Gen, but it's not real.

China is a Potemkin Village, to include their cheap knock off military hardware.
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Re: F35 vs. A10?

Post by Speaker to Animals » Fri Mar 22, 2019 8:34 pm

The X-36 actually reduced the RCS by using a canard instead of stabilizers.

The Chinese probably went with the canard for a similar reason.

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Re: F35 vs. A10?

Post by Smitty-48 » Fri Mar 22, 2019 8:36 pm

The canards on X-36 are totally different, the canards on J-20 are not stealth.
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Re: F35 vs. A10?

Post by StCapps » Fri Mar 22, 2019 8:56 pm

Of all the lame anti-F-35 arguments, "ZOMG J-20!" might just be the lamest.
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