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Soo umm.... whats up with having with no main gun?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They don't believe dogfighting can be a thing now.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Not training to dogfight or training in close engagements is like the Army or Marines not training their troops to fight hand to hand combat. It doesn't happen as much in war anymore but they still do it.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        that's because the army is a make work program. the chinese care about practical results

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Knives are cheap, guns are expensive

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        https://i.imgur.com/vUJ1vre.jpg

        Soo umm.... whats up with having with no main gun?

        They don't believe dogfighting can be a thing now.

        More so, they're meant to fly from within Chinese air and fire long pgm range missiles. Stealth + long range missiles = no melee fights

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Copey way to say they don't fit on their carriers lol

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            They'll fly from their carrier and extend some couple hundred mile away. The missiles with then add couple hundred/thousand miles.

            China -> Carrier = ~few hundred miles
            Carrier -> Jet = few hundred miles
            Jet -> Missile = few hundred - thousand miles

            Overall it will be ~2000+ mile radius range

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Nope because the plane does not fit on any of their carriers

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I stand corrected, just remove the carriers and put it on land. Thats ~1500 miles of range.

                I think they have plans to develop a naval variant to replace their j-15s tho.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Isn't it's main role just take down tankers and AWACS from long distances?
    Don't need a gun for that.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Based Chinks have realized that dogfighting is dead, it’s all about getting a lock on your target without getting locked on yourself.

      Because it's meant to do long range interception and anti-ship ops over the Pacific. In both of those jobs a gun is dead weight. These days the only job you really need a gun for (and arguably its the worst tool for the job) is CAS

      >NUOO AMERICAN F35 DONT USE YUOR MAINU GU- ACK
      Chink cope, just admit you dumbasses didnt account for the gun

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        If guns are so important why do 2 out of 3 F35 variants lack an internal gun? All the Chinks did was figure out the same thing we did years ago that the Chair Force for one reason or another denies. Reminder that Navy phantoms never got internal guns and their kill/loss ratios improved around the same time as gun equipped AF F4s entirely thanks to better training and doctrine

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Because the US actually HAS the capability to make different variants Chang.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I'm American you brainrotten nitwit, call me a chang all you like it won't bring back gun on gun dogfighting. That does get me thinking though, what if we made the A10 fire 30mm APFSDS? That'd solve the penetration problem while making me cum harder. That or make it bigger for a 40mm gun

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >APFSDS on a forward-firing airplane gun

              That's a great way for your engine(s) to suck in the sabots and shred itself to pieces during the gun run.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You're right, turn the gun around then. That way the pilot can also use it as a speed boost as well in emergencies

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        There is space made for gun in the J20. It just doesn't provide enough benefits for the added weight. Also this

        Yeah so this is a common but pretty fricking stupid take.

        1) Air-to-air detection ranges for modern stealth fighters are probably on the order of tens of kilometers

        2) WVR doesn't mean "dogfight". 18km is WVR, it's not exactly a merge.

        3) Even when dogfights do occur, they're pretty much decided by high off-boresight IR missiles, not guns.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The only reason the F-35 has a gun is because congress watched Top Gun and will now autistically screech about any attempt to remove it from a design. It's clearly not designed to dogfight and would be a marginally better airplane without a gun.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Based Chinks have realized that dogfighting is dead, it’s all about getting a lock on your target without getting locked on yourself.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      And how are they going to do that against a stealth F35? Their radar cross section is measured in meters as opposed to cm's in an F35.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        If you can't get close enough to use a missile, how will you get close enough to use a gun?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That's what PL10 are for

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because it's meant to do long range interception and anti-ship ops over the Pacific. In both of those jobs a gun is dead weight. These days the only job you really need a gun for (and arguably its the worst tool for the job) is CAS

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because they know it's pointless to add a cannon since they'd get blown to smithereens before they see anything to dogfight if the chinkmutts have to face the superior F35.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They designed before they watched Top Gun: Maverick and realized the gun could be used by a hero pilot in 60 years to take down a more advanced plane

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      But anon, its not the plane its the pilot.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        the pilot needs a gun

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    it's possible that widespread adoption of stealth tech will lead to a return of dogfighting as BVR combat becomes more survivable

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah so this is a common but pretty fricking stupid take.

      1) Air-to-air detection ranges for modern stealth fighters are probably on the order of tens of kilometers

      2) WVR doesn't mean "dogfight". 18km is WVR, it's not exactly a merge.

      3) Even when dogfights do occur, they're pretty much decided by high off-boresight IR missiles, not guns.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Nope, at least not how you're envisioning it. It'll likely come down to stealth fighters sending Fox 2s at each other. Not the good old fashioned tail chases of Dubya Dubya 2 or Nam

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Impressive.

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    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      this but unironically

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        China planes are so shit they can't even flight in straight line

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        What the hell did I just watched? What was the point?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          training for "unsafe intercepts"

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Love their blue clothing.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            More like dabs on robotic mutts

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    China is pretty cool guy.

    eh makes interesting designs and doesnt afraid of anything.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >main gun

    No such thing on modern fighters. A gun on your fighter plane is the equivalent of a bajonett on your infantryman.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Id rather have it and not need it than the opposite

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        yeah, but you're moronic and don't matter

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Nah, the odds of an infantryman stabbing someone in 2023 are thousands of times higher than a fighter needing a main gun. And they're not even remotely comparable, a bayonet is practically no weight for an Infantryman, a main gun is a massive difference for a fighter.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >a fighter
        F35 is multirole and having an integrated gun allows it to retain stealth without needing gunpods. Doesn't matter for the j20 because it isn't really stealth in the first place

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Doesn't matter for the j20 because it isn't really stealth in the first place
          We are at denial phase now

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            At what range can a j20 be detected by an f35?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              In May 2018, Indian Air Chief Marshal B.S. Dhanoa claimed at a press conference that the radars on India's Su-30MKI fighters were "good enough" and could detect a J-20 from "several kilometers away" while answering a question on whether the J-20 posed a threat to India.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >poo
                Opinion dismissed

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                you think the poos have space based ISRs to actually confirm things like that? lol.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >The 4.5G F/A-18 Hornet Navy fighter jet has an RCS of 1m2, about the same as the Russian SU-34/35 and the Chinese J-20. The 5G F-35 has an RCS of 0.005m2, about the size of a golf ball.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >source my butthole

              Also i hate that people quote RCS figures for the superhornet or eurofighter like this and then compare them to stealth fighters.
              These aircraft don't have internal bays, no integrated IRST, they have to carry external tanks to have any range, their quoted RCS is basically a useless number.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    But the government shills on this board told me that internal cannons are useless because the F-35 B and C don't have one. Which one is it, nu-/k/?

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I Remember back when before chinks had the j-20 they all used the fact that some f-35s dont have guns as a way to say its dogshit
    but now that their 5th gen fighter doesnt have a gun it of course changes the whole narrative

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    //toy
    /toy
    >toy//
    >/toy
    >//toy
    >>toy/

    Also tianamen square or some shit I don't fricking know anymore

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Give them a break, they needed those big canards for a reason and they’ve been stuck with those old ass engines for like a decade+ and you’re bugging them over not adding a gun? Have you seen what went into making the F-35’s gun?

    Yes everyone knows the J-20 is a joke vs the F-22 and F-35 and is probably not even 5th gen but it’s still a working fighter jet with SOME stealth capability, AESA radar, internal bays, etc. They did finally upgrade the engines. Respect it for it’s accomplishments from how low it had to come out off.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'd give them respect if it was a home grown design and not just copied but worse.
      Chinese engineers have real issues, despite graduating more every 2 years than USA has in totality, they need to copy what they do and struggle to design their own shit. Chinese engineering degrees must be nearly worthless.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >muh copying

        Anyone unironically believing this only shows that he understands less than nothing about plane design or manufacturing.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          They do copy a lot without understanding it, most often out of unrestrained corruption & greed in lower industry where quality control isn't a thing.
          But yes, past a point, especially in aicraft/military domain with lot of oversight, it is impossible to copy without an almost equivalent understanding of the technology.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            > They do copy a lot without understanding it
            Minimum wage b***hBlack personhomosexualmutt who’s never done FMEAs trying to sound smart.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Well, obviously, Western engineers are much better — and any really good Chinese engineers would be crazy NOT to go work for Western firms which treat people MUCH better. Having a handful of hero engineers doesn’t make the difference. Chinese industry is maybe to corrupt to compete properly.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Western engineers are much better
          KEK
          E
          K

          Most western engineers are fricking trash. Just like most eastern engineers. The difference is in the work ethics. I think the Chinese are marginally better.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            One yuan has been deposited into your account. The Chinese Communist Party would like to thank you for your service.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >t. some b***h homosexual who's never worked in a professional engineering environment

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You need to said high tech manufacturing environment. Software engineer won't get why there is no such thing as copy

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Except I am a dev doing embedded baremetal work and I know you can really have a product without understanding.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You need to said high tech manufacturing environment. Software engineer won't get why there is no such thing as copy

                >can’t have
                Fixed typo

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Can't we just ADD a gunpod later and get the same overall result with less trouble?
    You only use guns if you ran out of missiles and missiles are getting so efficient it will be a matter of who have more than the other.

    Also it's kinda just a fast heavy bomber. Its meant to leave if there's enemy interceptor.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Another thing. Modern A2A missiles are in fact very reliable and accurate but they’re not magic. There are factors which make then less reliable, like, not being able to approach targets within your missiles’ no-escape zones which is much lower than their maximum range.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's not the Vietnam war anymore, grandpa.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Probably because modern guidance systems are pretty fricking good to the point they ensure a fairly high hit rate. Pretty much leads to stacking more missiles instead of guns+ammo.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    As much as /k/ likes to shit on China, I think that based chinks have the right idea here, it’s super unlikely that you would need a gun with a modern stealth fighter

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Dunno. Ask why the F-35 doesn't have one and reuse the same arguments the Redditors spew out.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      hmm

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Now do the B and C versions, dingus.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          hmm

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >a fricking pod

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              The A should have just gone with the pod as well. Only time guns are used nowadays is churning dirt on ground attack. Strap it on the centerline pylon when you're running close air, save the weight or add more gas for every other sortie when you'll never use the damn thing.
              This is also your friendly reminder that naval phantoms in Vietnam posted better kill ratios than the air force despite never receiving a model with an internal canon.

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Soo umm.... whats up with having with no main gun?

    Don't need a gun when the extent of your military's "combat" experience is rounding up Uyghurs for the gulag.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    A lot of countries don't bother with a gun. There's a lump of concrete in the British Typhoon where the gun should be.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Either that or there's a gun but they never bothered to buy ammo. It's just there for balance.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The comfy era of dogfights is over anon. It's time to move on.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >a fricking muttard
    'nuff said

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >asshurt chang
      Checks out

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