They nailed most of the features, only missing minor details. Canopy, nose windows, two bigass engines, wing profile, t-tail, landing gear. They can’t draw for shit but they got the info.
The sketch has widening wings, while the plane has constant-width wings. The body profile is completely wrong. The engines on the sketch are not anything nearly as bigass as on the plane. The vertical stabilizers are just completely wrong. The landing gear is on the wrong place. The wings are on the wrong place…
If your job is to inform the Joint Chiefs that the ruskies have a bomber with a canopy and ejector seat, two big honking jet engines and a tail gunner, this’ll do.
I mean, maybe? Never worked intelligence but I assume there’s a shitload of extrapolation and assumption. Also realistically they’ll paint it as a 12th Gen aircraft and demand 50 billion more funding to close the capabilities gap.
If you see only the sketch, would you be able to identify the plane?
Anyway, the problem is that they sent somebody that can’t draw to make the sketch…
They nailed most of the features, only missing minor details. Canopy, nose windows, two bigass engines, wing profile, t-tail, landing gear. They can’t draw for shit but they got the info.
The sketch has widening wings, while the plane has constant-width wings. The body profile is completely wrong. The engines on the sketch are not anything nearly as bigass as on the plane. The vertical stabilizers are just completely wrong. The landing gear is on the wrong place. The wings are on the wrong place…
I would call that a cruciform tail rather than a T tail. And it’s a high wing, drawing has it as a low or mid wing.
That’s fair, though we don’t know how close the sketch “artist” actually saw the thing. I’m just saying it ain’t terribly far off.
If your job is to inform the Joint Chiefs that the ruskies have a bomber with a canopy and ejector seat, two big honking jet engines and a tail gunner, this’ll do.
I mean, maybe? Never worked intelligence but I assume there’s a shitload of extrapolation and assumption. Also realistically they’ll paint it as a 12th Gen aircraft and demand 50 billion more funding to close the capabilities gap.