Chinese J-35 Stealth Fighter | Thunderbird Fighter Pilot Reacts 

The current J-31 is completely different. It is now available in version 3.0.

Last week I had two Norwegian f35s flying really low above me, saw almost every detail under the aircraft and the sound was amazing

I was having such a bad day and then I watched this video. You can see the passion you have for aviation on your face, even when you are talking about a Chinese fighter.

The B-52 black smoke on takeoff results from the use of water injection. I flew the old D model, which had turbojets, so we really needed it to get that 450,000 pounds off the ground.

Two of worst mistakes one can ever make: 1. to underestimate one's opponent and 2. to make assumptions about one's opponent.

Hey brother jsut wanted to say GREAT CHANNEL man!!! Honestly keep it up, content is amazing, sounds and video is epic, info is insane as a real fighter pilot and man your personality is so dang positive and happy , thanks for that and Thankyou for your service!

Man.. the F-4 was bad about black smoke initially due to low engine temperatures. Unfortunately, raising that temperature cleared up the smoke, but led to increased engine wear.

Airshow is loved everywhere in every culture. Greetings from Tunisia.

China copying the canopy on the naval variant is absolutely hilarious. They even kept the "hunchback" of the F-35B. It just screams, "I copied your homework. I do not have the ability to make a jet like this without stealing secrets."

4:00 - Ryan has officially lost it 🤣🤣 brilliant!

Afterburner bloom is what I have heard other fighter pilots have called it. I remember on the history channel show dogfights in the episode about desert Storm. An F-15 pilot shot down a MIG-25 he called out on the radio and asked if any F-15s were in afterburner when he heard no one was in afterburner he shot the MIG down.

If Harbor Freight made an F-22/F-35 hybrid...

Just to note: The F-35 drag chute is currently only on the Norwegian jets, primarily to provide assistance on icy runways and in thinner air, although it also cuts the landing distance by a significant margin. In 2020, the Finns (Finland) were reported to acquire data on Norwegian experience with the chute in relation to their road-base concept.

Stumbled upon this video....Glad I did. First, you have a great presence, which makes it cool to watch. Second, in this video, I appreciated the objective way that you reviewed the J-35. I'm newly subscribed, and I look forward to watching more of your content. Be well.

J-35 and the SU-75 are both gonna be future competitors to the F-35🥶🥶🥶

They do drag chutes because they want to reduce the damage to the brakes, it will be easier to maintain during training times. I suspect that they will do no chutes doing war times

Took in the 2023 Sun & Fun Airshow at Lakeland, Fl this year and was thrilled to see the USAF F-35A and the Marine Corp F-35B put on a show!

Love your videos, absolutely fantastic, and thank you for your service as a US Air Force fighter pilot. I didn't serve in the Air Force, although I did serve in the British military for 23 years. Keep these fantastic videos coming, thank you so much.

Buddy you did a great job bringing us up-to-date… Thanks! 🇺🇸

This is my fighter jet guy I go to. He does a great job explaining things to a guy like me who loves these jets but has never been on one. Keep up the good work Bud..

My dad was an senior engineer for skunkworks on both f35 and f22. Also now after 35 yrs with them retired and is with NASA on the SLS . The stuff i have talked with him about that he can tell me the foreign 5 gen are equal to our 4th. Our weapon systems are 30yrs more advanced. NGAD is going to blow minds!!

That Chinese bird looks more like an F-22 to me with its slightly forward leaning vertical stabs to the twin engines, or maybe a conglomeration of both the 22 and the 35.

I worked in the industry and the amount of security around these and all new designs is crazy amount .. they have to have super tiny cameras nearby !

Love watching F35s & F16 s come out of Luke AFB. When at the base in Anchorage we were waiting to take off after an F16 that was in front of us. This pilot was reving up his engine just sitting there trying to make a moose move a little faster off the tarmac so he could take off. That bull moose had NO intention of moving any faster that what he desired & so we sat there waiting.

If the F-35 is bulky look at how much bulkier these J31/J35 look. With low-efficiency engines, they have had to pack more fuel into the plane making it longer as well. Therefore, Thrust to weight ratio is probably not as good as western jets.

I think it's called FC-31 (the name originally used by Shenyang)/ J-35 (designation given by PLAAF).

Speaking of autographs, do you sell autographed photos from being with the Thunderbirds? If so how do I get one? I just saw them a couple months or so back but they didn't have a chance to sign my picture.

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness." Is the actual full quote which makes this even more relevant.

The engines are the same engines from the Mig29 but Chinese engines are in development because it’s under powered with those

The dual engines is the reason why they need the larger vertical stabilizers basically it's an f-35 with two engines so they use the F-22 stabilizers

I like your outlook about others competing (copying) just pushes us to get better. Lets not worry about others emulating as that isn't the natural course of everything. Lets focus on innovation.

So Max with an F16 how long can you stay supersonic before you use up your fuel load out and is it any longer with the F15 -F22-F35s

Will the directed energy weapon on the BAE Tempest change basic fighter manouvers when you can blast an enemy with your laser from any angle?

Love your videos! You are the man! My dream was to fly 16’s. I was born on Shepard's AF base. Didn’t happen but still have a major passion for jets. Anyway, just one fan expressing some gratitude! Hope you had an amazing Christmas.

airshows are like nascar races. people show up to see a crash

at 4:04 u did the "chugga chugga hugga chugga hugga chugga choo choo"...and i knew i had to like and subscribe

This fighter livery showed it's early version, engines were not powerful enough. The plane's pitot tubes indicated that the design has not yet been finalized. Comparing the bottom shape of F-35 and that of FC-31/J-35, the stealth of the F-35 is definitely worse than that of the J-35, not to mention the next-generation left-handed metamaterial full-spectrum stealth technology of the J-35, larger built-in missile bays, safety and stability of supersonic and supersonic cruise. Air-to-air missile PL-15 range compared with that of AIM-120D, etc.

With the shape of its tail fins and having two engines, the rear half and side profile looks more like an F-22 than an F-35.

Av8b produces black smoke while doing max lift wet meaning it is injecting water to produce more thrust and cool JPT, while in a hover the av8b didn’t have allot of air intake so it needed water injection to keep it from overheating its turbine

Train impression was on point

Could you please create a Vid about The Gun Pods on The F-35's B and C and how it affects its stealth capabilities, how big of a deal does it affect the RCS, and are the Gun Pods themselves stealthy!?👍

That's the RD-93 Russian engine on the first black prototype. Its been said that the US fed flawed schematics etc. for it to be copied but J-35's shape and dimensions are not blindly exact copies of the F-35 on close examination.

j 31/35 looks like a f-22 and an f-35 got busy together and had a baby!

Six months later: Ever done a Dutch roll? I saw an F4 do one at RAAF Amberley while we had them on lease waiting for the F 111 [OK I'm an old phart] and it was scary because it was impromptu and appeared out of control heading straight for me. All these years later I have never seen a video of one.

Would be nice to see a KF-21 react video now that it has flown for the first time!

the reason why the "j-35" uses two engine is because they cant make a single engine strong enough to be like the f-35

Heat seaking missile is really gonna love that black smoke 😂

The J35 was "rollin' coal". Lol.

Some notes from a member of the China watcher community. The black FC-31 demonstrator which first flew in 2012 was very far from a ready fighter and was initially intended as a budget stealth fighter for the export market. It used RD-33 engines from a Mig 29. It was later used as the basis and developed into the J-35 (no official name exist yet) with the first real prototype flying in 2021. J-35 will be a naval stealth fighter intended for China's new catobar carriers so equivalent of the F35C, it is unclear if there will be a version intended for the air force as well. The design have changed over the years and originally the canopy opened backwards, only last year did they swap it so they must have found some reason. In general we have very little information on the plane, the engines are a version of the WS-13 engine but the final engine is supposed to be the in development WS-19. Most guesses put its IOC around 2025.

The J-31 looks much more like an F-22 than an F-35, especially the tail and twin engines.

The airframe looks like a hybrid if the F22 and the F35.

Thing is a spitting image of an f-22 from the ground and a 35 from the top

Not enough people appreciate the fact that we are all restricted by physics.😂 But I think you’re right. Likely a JSF since China already has the j-20 airframe to upgrade for air superiority. Once China figures their engine situation out they will be a contender.

Definitely a cross between F-22 and F-35!

Its just hard not to like a guy like this, keep it up man.

May the best (American) pilot wins

I would say that particularly prototype borrows from both the F-35 and F-22. The prototypes have since changed from this one though. The wings and horizontal stabs now have a slightly different shape, as well as the vertical stabs. The vertical stabs now look similar to the F-35's, whereas the wings - more like the F-22. The cockpit has also slightly changed and opens forward like the F-35. The pitot tube is only there for flight testing. The newer prototypes don't have it.

Correction: The MiG-23 had the naval F-4 intakes, not the MiG-25/31. The design for that specific jet was taken from the A-5 Vigilante, as that was an upcoming western interceptor in the works at the time (but was ultimately scrapped due to projected costs and the technology already being obsolete by the time of consideration). The F-4 had nothing to do with the MiG-25's development.

Man, that angle of attack on the F22 clip!

When you copy someones homework right before class .

Can you react to the South Korean KAI KF 21 fighter next? It looks similar to F22.

The jet in this video is J31 NOT J35. We should name it J31 V1 prototype. It seems to be equipped with AL 31 or RD-93 Russian engines. The lastest J35(J31 V3) stealth jet has equipped with WS-19. The flame color should be blue instead of yellow and the Jet # should be 35XXX instead of 31XXX in the video.

I am a _Bubblehead_ so my knowledge of _Fly Boy_ kit is limited. But to my limited understanding, it looks like the _Chinese Air Force_ designed us a place to put _Sidewinder Missiles._ I could be wrong. _But I'm not._

I See F35, F15 and even a bit of F22 in that design

a problem with them copying certain design aspects without exactly having the same reasons is that they wont learn the same lessons or have tried different ideas that affected other factors, and they wont learn that either

I love carrier takeoffs and landing videos. Share your experiences on that matter from early training exercise to on a pitching flight deck at night. I love our veterans! God bless them all, and God bless the 🇺🇸!

No expert but that black smoke is a visual give away, here I am

Another thing about the black smoke, the F-4's in Vietnam had the same issue, aircraft are easier to spot visually (and target) when they are belching out smoke

I love how this guy isn't mad about China stealing western designs, he just appreciates a cool jet, speaks to the level of confidence he has in U.S. fighters.

Great vid, fair assessment. A lot of investment going on over in China and we should see them putting better and better stuff out there, which hopefully inspires us to keep getting better in kind.

B-52 smoke is part of the long range location indicator. Boeing added this feature to help notify ammo to show up on time.

I notice when the f22 really dogs down and tries to quickly regain speed the flame from the rear goes from blue to red/orange.

The problem with the F35 is that the airframe is too bulky, which increases the air resistance of the airframe, slows the flight speed, consumes a lot of fuel, and has a short range. J35 is a stealth carrier-based aircraft improved by Shenyang Aircraft Research Institute based on FC31. It currently uses self-developed engine WS13 (RD93 imitation), and the latest version uses WS19 engine. The maximum thrust is 11 tons, which is equivalent to developing the early model of WS10. . The J20 currently in service uses a WS10C engine with a thrust of 14 tons. The WS15 high-thrust engine was just installed in the first two weeks, with a maximum thrust of 18 tons. It is expected to be fully replaced with WS15 engines in 2024. The speed and maneuverability of the J35 is much better than that of the F35. As for which one is more advanced, the integrated avionics system or the weapon system, the current information is limited and it is unknown!

Great video, thanks for the analysis. In 2016, Su Bin pled guilty of downloading the blueprints of the F-22 and F-35. I agree no need to be angry at the Chinese, but the intel services that allowed both of those in their entirety no less to be on one network deserve a LOT of anger. Most say they aren't as stealthy -- I've seen numbers saying factors of 10 to 100 but not sure if that's without radar opacity items on the jet, but they are going back and forth with US on having leading edge in AA missiles now. Part of the blame goes to Russia for sharing their latest planes with China which China took and started making themselves despite agreements to the contrary, because OF COURSE THEY DID, DUH. Wouldn't surprise me if the J-35 is our F-35 blueprint but with the tail replaced with a Mig of Flanker engine setup they got from their Russian jets. In that we are failing to properly wage economic war on a China that acts like they are fully at war with us, I'm at least glad to see the NGAD / stealth programs being pushed full throttle... though we wouldn't need that rush if our leaders would stop pumping money into the CCP's war machine. Also, the F-35 just got a huge engine upgrade (not in VSTOL yet but coming later) that increases top speed to on par with estimate for J-35 and increases range by 300+ miles, so some good news.

I'm a Chinese military fan and wanted to see what overseas views on the J-35 were. Saw your video and found some fundamental errors. The FC-31 (No 31001) is not the J-35. The J-35 did develop from the FC-31 but they are not the same. The FC31 prototype (No. 31001) shown in the video is already in the museum. The leaked prototype photo of the J35 is currently number is 350003. So your analysis can only be said to be for the FC-31, but not the J35. It's like saying you're using the YF-16 test flight video to analyze the F-16E/F , you can't get to get the right analysis results The differences between FC-31 and J35 will be more, FC-31 is based on land and J35 is for aircraft carrier. The design ideas are completely different. As a fighter pilot you weren't able to spot these issues, it is very regrettable. This information is easily accessible on youtube and wikipedia.

That train bit😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

How about comparing the YAK-141 "Freestyle and F-35B "Lightning II" and which one is older? What is the same technology they both have?

Take this as a compliment, I like your takes on the subject. Very educational and you also look similar to Jim Carrey.

1:07 Uhhh lol those were some of the most aggressive eyes I've ever seen when doing a palm swipe transition. 🤣

The chugga chugga choo choo tells me you’re a fan of the movie Major Payne

I am so impressed with the J20, it actually got off the ground. Lol.

You Imagine where the Chinese Military would be the rest of the world wasn't handling 100% their R & D?

I think you unintentionally communicated that you're a World of Warcraft player, with your exact replication of the /train emote. Good job, by the way.

In engineering there is a phenomenon called "convergence of design". That is given a set of physical laws to solve an engineering problem all solutions converge to similarity. A simple example is bows an arrows. In primitive days there are no computers top hack and steal from nor much communications across oceans but similar bows an arrows are used from African tribes to Chinese and down to Australian continent. In order to minimized the radar profile or reflection you have to physically shape your plane in a certain way. The shapes and positions of wings, alerons, canards, fusilage etc will have to be optimized and will converge to a similar shape. The real test is not the outside shape but the avionics inside the plane and the engines.

Dual wheel nose landing gear could indicate that it could be used for carrier landing, cannot tell how beefy the mains are. Good point on the engines Ryan! I would bet that they are no where near as reliable as the engine on the F-35. Great analysis!!!

The most comparable aircraft to the J-35 is the F-35C since they both fit the profile of a medium sized aircraft with low observable technology and intended for carrier-borne operations. The J-35 is pretty much the successor to their interim J-15 flanker aircraft and there's relatively more opportunities for their navy to optimize the aircraft for carrier operations as opposed to their American counterparts ...

I remember working for a computer company back in the middle 80s and we were trying to help the Chinese develop better technologies for their keyboards….. think about how many characters they have in their written language

A very good western point of view with honest opinions and/or doubts. Keep up the good work!

I'm not expecting much out of the j-35 to be honest. Besides, the only J-35 I like is the SAAB Draken :)

Hello everyone! thank you for checking out this video! Check out maxafterburner.co for a new merch drop!

Hell the Chinese know every component on anything we build !!!

Nothing cooler than being an F-15 pilot!!! 🤟

Lol just like The SU-75 J-35 is a cheap knock off of The F-35 precisely why we don't export The F-22 ;)

On the issue of the F-35 forward hinged canopy. I talked to some Lockheed folks many years ago, and they pointed out a few benefits: - stealth: tighter canopy sealing - maintenance: ejection seat can be removed without removing entire canopy - cost: simpler and lighter design

Woo! A healthy competition to see who can build the best war machine.

I like how the f35's belly looks like. Looks very alien than other the 5th gen fighters which have plain smooth belly.

With the reliability of Chinas jet engines I’d want 2 engines as well.

Putting Max's ego aside, this second chinese "stealth" aircraft looks more to be a smaller, less capable copy of the F-22 Raptor with some changes from the chinese hack of the F-35 plans. And as usual, it has to have twin engines because the chinese don't have a suitable engine with the same power as the one in the F-35 Lightning II.....and if definitely won't once the new dual stage turbofans are made available to it. They are still at least 10 years behind us in engine technology, possibly 20....

Especially when you get to see the YF12A while the TBirds were scooting in the F100s.

J35 is far better than F35 in terms of supercruise and maneuverability. F35's single engine is one of its main weakness, as its high bypass ratio makes its performance deteriorate severely in high speed. But this dude makes it sound like a strength