Comments by "Gort" (@gort8203) on "SLICK CHICK: The Wild Story Of The USAF's First Top Secret Supersonic Spy Plane" video.

@MrKentaroMotoPI True. From the point of the commenter's question, we should also keep in mind that a pitot intake does not have to be at the nose of the aircraft. The F-16 is one aircraft with a simple pitot intake, meaning an intake with no ramps or cones to control the shock wave(s) in the inlet. The inlet is located under the cockpit so that the nose can house a sizable radar antenna. Conversely, the MiG-21 does have a nose mounted intake that is not a pitot intake because it is served by a shock cone, which I assume houses a small radar antenna in addition to placing an oblique shock in the inlet.
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Because they were simple day fighters and didn't have a large radar set in the nose. When it became necessary to house a large radar antenna in the nose the intakes were relocated.
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@MrKentaroMotoPI A simple pitot inlet does not have to be at the nose, and an inlet at the nose is not necessarily a pitot inlet.
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@MrKentaroMotoPI Look, you can call a pitot inlet inlet other things if you want, but the definition I find is that it is simple scoop with no ramps or shock cones that relies on a normal shock. I have seen the F-16 inlet labelled as pitot inlet in multiple references. You can disagree and add complicating terminology but that is the basic definition I see in multiple references. The only reason I brought it up to point out that a simple pitot inlet does not have to be at the nose, and an inlet at the nose is not necessarily a pilot inlet.
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