Actually, how you are describing the -57's levcons is that defiance of physics.
You are more then welcome to pull up a source that prove i am somehow defying physics. You clearly either misread what I wrote about LEVCON or you are mixing me up with someone else.
No, the levcons are not fixed. They displace their positions.
Yes, they are-- at least from the point of being an active control surface--not moving to keep the aircraft stable like other flight control surfaces.
They don't dehave like conards or stabalizers or flop around like some people insinuate in fact they can't even move horizontally past the fixes position which they stay at during cruise or during maneuvers, only a handful of photos exist with some depression in the LEVCON, we can only speculate what the designers were checking but most video show the LEVCONS stayed fixed during cruise/maneuvers.
I have no problems repeating post 385 page 26...
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/su-57-program-cancelled.567534/page-26#post-10957864
There are three rules in designing a radar low observable body:
- Control of quantity of radiators
- Control of array of radiators
- Control of modes of radiation
Whenever the levcons move, the -57 becomes less obedient to Rule 2: Control of
ARRAY of radiators.
Let me entertain your claim and pretend the LEVCONS behave like conards or stabalizers--which they obviously do not. The challenge engineers face is controlling radiators, however for some, LEVCONs have become the subject of trolling. The designers blended the LEVONS as to minimize returns, they used platform alignment and to some extent absorbers. The LEVCON behave very much like a slat as apposed to a active flight congrol surface.
Above you mentioned control of radiators. Do the following now bend the rules of physics?
All of the following are discontinuities and the challenge now becomes controlling those radiators, which are present on all aircraft including F-22/35.
-Elevator
-Aileron
-Slats
-Flaps
-Rudder
the engineers designs the F-22, F-35, B-2, or Su-57, they frets over sizes down to the mm. For each panel, the quantity of fasteners are precisely calculated under Rule 1 and their positions on the panel under Rule 2.
This...
...Is what happens with a panel fastener, be it a screw head or a rivet head, when a radar signal impact the skin. Rules 1 and 2.
I have mentioned that before,
I was one of the first that that mentioned that the LEVCON creates a discontinuity (were LEVCON is attached to airframe). I have also stated before that
-Elevator
-Aileron
-Slats
-Flaps
-Rudder
-Access panels
-Bay doors
..... All are discontinties.
If the smallest possible RCS is the goal, in the perfect world a "stealth" aircraft would have no engines, intakes, flaps, or panels because all created "radiators". All aircraft including the SU-57 have compromise that balance kenetic performance, cost and stealth.
I stated this long ago, and a SU-57 engineer recently said something similar.
So I am still confused as to what you even quoted me for.
So if there are gaps between the -57's levcons and the fuselage -- and there are gaps -- the entire aircraft becomes less obedient to Rules 1 and 2. The levcons are major ACTIVE flight controls elements. It does not matter if the levcons moves or not. The seeking radar may see those gaps in one second but does not see them in the next second. But that is not the point of those rules, which is that radiators must be controlled in quantity and relationships to each other no matter what.
Once again I was one of the first to admit this, i never claimed the SU-57 can defy the rules of physics as you accused me of. I never claimed it to be more or less stealthy then anything, I only claimed it was good enough to satisfy the RuAF requirements and Sukhoi. The engineers are pleased with the overall performance in which they clearly made sacrifices in 'stealth' to create an all around good platform that satisfies
their requirements and not some imaginary stealth standards set by PDF armchair generals.
I clearly stated LEVCONs are discontinuity but cautioned that all aircraft have discontinuities in different areas and that the challenge was trying to control or minimize any adverse effects from them.
Here I say it:
https://defence.pk/pdf/posts/10958108/
, the B-2 is more obedient to the three rules than ALL of the current 'stealth' platforms out there. For its size, its RCS is probably comparable to the F-22. The only way any seeking radar can detect the B-2 is from a PERPENDICULAR position, topside or underside, which is extremely rare in flight.
Again I mentioned something similar when I spoke about balancing performance and minimal radar returns. I have always stated a flying wing with no vertical stabilizers would be superior to any current "stealth" aircraft but all aircraft make compromises for performance. You are trying the lecture me on points we both agree on, if you want to debate something that makes absurd claims about physic and in general trolls, speak to Pakistanipower or whatever he calls himself.
No, the F-22 do not have the same thing.
Yes, they do, I was specifically speaking about what leading edge extensions do
in regards to lift and maneuverability as well as the
similar platform alignment and shape the F-22s leading edge extensions as well as the SU-57s "LEVCONS" have/provide.
Both the F-22 and SU-57 create a low pressure boundary layer.
Dude main difference in between LAVCON and leading root extensions are first one is
movable and other is
fixed respectively, and i would like to say F-22 has no leading root extension but i would like say its more like intake extensions, leading root extensions are bad for stealth, leading root extension are on JF-17 and F/A 18 and J-20 but LAVCON does behave like CANARD and as for your information leading root extension is only for lift, they are not able to increase agility/maneuverability of jets
@ptldM3 get out your falsehood
@ptldM3
It has nothing so do with fixed or movable, we are not talking about a canard. We are talking about a discontinuity in which even your hero Gambit stats that much, in fact we (Gambit) seem to have similar conclusions with LEVCONs and discontinuities and general aircraft design philosophy.
As for your claim about leading edge extensions "not able to increase agility/maneuverability of jets"
You are completely disconnected from reality. They absolutely increase maneuverability.
Someone is lying and it's no me, but continue defying physics.
http://www.dept.aoe.vt.edu/~mason/Mason_f/LEXS04.ppt