A side-by-side comparison of the USA’s F-35C naval joint strike fighter, and China’s new J-35 Naval stealth fighter.
More about the J-35:
A history of the J-35 stealth fighter, in pictures. The first image, the black-and-red 31001 Jet, was the technology demonstrator prototype shown to the PLA, initially called the FC-31 “Gyrfalcon”.
The second and third image in each picture shows the first flying prototype of the as of yet Un-revealed J-31/J-35 fighter jet.
The most recent, and lowest down image shows the completed J-31/5 350003 wing-number Stealth fighter jet for the new PLAN Fujian aircraft carrier.
The fighter jet’s name has been an interesting story in and of itself; initially sold as the FC-31, it’s name would change to J-31 to fit official Chinese naming designations within the Air Force (“J” is the Chinese equivalent of “F” in American fighter jet nomenclature; J referring to Jianjiji [歼击机] or, literally “Fighter Plane”.)
However as the jet as not officially been unveiled, many Chinese netizens took to referring to it as the J-35, as this is literally how the USA’s F-35 is translated.
For comparison, here’s the pic of F-35:
Ahhhh beat me to but I was gonna go with
that’s a lot of F-35’s in their natural environment. beautiful
Flew about as well as the F-35, but sailed a whole lot better:
but submarined about the same
Was going to say, OP forgot to put a picture of the F-35 in its natural habitat.
Eeh, I wouldn’t judge a plane by looks alone - that’s how you get people claiming Buran is just a carbon copy of the space shuttle, or people claiming AK-47 is a copy of StG. Neither of claims are true, just in case. The internals could be vastly different.
There’s also the possibility that both have studied the YaK-141 - Soviet VTOL jet. AFAIK yanks don’t even hide the fact a lot was copied from it.
A lot of westerners tend to claim that every Chinese airplane/ship/tank/etc. is a “copy” of a western one due to racist stereotyping.
In this case the most obvious difference is that the J-35 has 2 engines and the F-35 has only one engine lol
Not to mention that China has a shit ton of stuff that the West hasn’t even begun to dream about yet
Yeah, like the ability to fly and also sit on a carrier without rusting.
Specially stealth fighters. They all look “samey”. honestly F35 and F22 are very similar, so is the european, russian and south korean projects.
The ones I think are the most distinct are J-20 and the Japanese one I forgot the name
Almost as if the physics of having low radar visibility or good aerodynamics are the same worldwide! But nah, folks will claim it’s all copied.
China so ebil they copied western physics 😡 smh
the name J-35 would be specific to the navalized variant (it has folding wings for stowing, (and iirc can use the catapult system on the Fujian?) J-31 would be an air force version that I think Shenyang were aiming more for export. These aren’t just netizen names - the serial numbers of the prototypes start with 31 for the conventional ones and 35 for the latest naval one, suggesting it is official nomenclature
