>>64460773Just post the fucking source you retard.https://www.twz.com/air/mysterious-fuselage-section-appears-in-northrop-grumman-video
>>64460773ur moms dildo m8
Super Destroyer from Helldivers
F/A-XX
it's an sectien of the fuseladge
>captain, our scanners indicate one of our workbees is outside the hangar b->not now mr worf.
>>64460773I mean it's clearly an intake section.It's very pretty.
CCA midsection, perhaps related to Project Lotus
>>64460773Test article of some kind, possibly related to F/A-XX since those appear to be dorsal inlets and the shape would roughly fit being a fighter body section, possibly just a representative test article for new manufacturing techniques. >>64463020AvWeek claims to have a picture of Lotus they aren’t sharing, and they claim single dorsal inlet mounted high and very far aft. Based off that I’d guess this is related to something else.
>>64463475Gotta be a 1/2 article then because that is tiny
>>64463614RUMINT is DoD is concerned that they don’t have an active fully in house fighter production line despite being a major subcontractor for airframe sections on a lot of what we fly currently. NG seemed pretty proud of their new production techniques on B-21, and as far as aerospace goes that seems to be a model program so far. Could be they wanted an article to point to to validate those new manufacturing processes on a fighter sized or smaller airframe to help their pitch to the Navy.
>>64463649Judging by the size relationship to the tool box, that looks UCAV sized.Too bad we can't make airplanes the way the P-39/63 was made.https://youtu.be/6XwZBA3AXHU?t=808
>>64460778thank you for not being a faggot
>>64460773There is a lot of twist in those inlets, its not going to be fast. Piloted. Jet trainer?
>>64463475>those appear to be dorsal inletswhat?
>>64467557I don’t see any ducting in the cutout section below the thick yellow stripe so I don’t think it’s a cheek inlet like on the F-35. Assuming that thick yellow stripe lines up to where the wing would be on a potential finished article I would say that’s a dorsal inlet, as I don’t think the inlet mouth would be quite as low as your line suggests.
>>64467570>I don’t see any ducting in the cutout section below the thick yellow stripeThat's because that's where the weapons bays are. The intake ducts curve in, up, and over them. Even on the F-35 they s-ducts are pretty agressive. The cutout area is most likely where the intake mouth and DSI hump will be.
>>64467570>>64469170And the F-35s ducts for comparison
ai generated is what it is
>>64469170I don’t think they’d be adding nearly the amount of structure your red lines suggest. I think the black parts are surface sections while yellow are where the airframe sections connect together. I think this is just one section and the s ducting will occur behind what we see, since what we have here does not look long enough to accommodate the 12ft length of an AMRAAM internally. Basically inlets and ducting over weapons bay, engine behind weapons bay. Remember the F-35 is a fairly short aircraft, both the F-22 and F-14 are about 11-12 feet longer so there would be the extra space to make that work assuming this relates to F/A-XX and assuming F/A-XX ends up fitting that heavy fighter deck footprint.
>>64469392I don't really care what you think, since you're clearly just talking out of your ass and saying shit based on vibes.We're obviously looking at this part of an aircraft. Behind the intakes, ahead of the weapons bays.
>>64469392>I think this is just one section and the s ducting will occur behind what we seeAlso, those are clearly the s-ducts in the picture, the engine(s) will connect almost immediately behind that point. Consult the F-35 diagram. >>64469187
>>64469410>>64469418Northrop does the assembly of the F-35 center fuselage, I’m assuming broadly this will be built the same way. Everything black is an exterior surface, everything g that isn’t slots to something else. From the view we have there’s no guarantee there’s provision to mount the amount of structure you have in your drawing. Northrop Grumman also designs planes much differently than Lockheed Martin, and since YF-23 every major project of theirs I can think of has used a dorsal inlet, it’s practically their calling card at this point. B-21, X-47A, X-47B, XRQ-73, the Scaled Composites 437, Project Lotus per Aviation Week, as well as the renders they’ve used to represent their 6th gen proposals for the last decade.
>>64469493Forgot pic
>>64469498What we're seeing is pretty clearly just missing this section. I mean, you can see pretty much exactly where it joins up in this pic.mulligan, better drawing this time
>>64469521Call it agree to disagree then. I’m not saying you can’t be right but just from where I’m sitting I just don’t see it
>>64469767Fair enough. If we could see the front side of those ducts it would settle it right away.
>>64469774Yeah props to their marketing team on this one. Only showing the one view of it to drive all kinds of speculation
