I am new to these things, so pardon my lack of knowledge about this, Jane is no longer what it was, it was what before?
Agreed. While there is hype going around for this year, I personally dont expect it to happen so soon. It be a huge surprise.
It could be they are copying what PAF put out last year in jan, they mentioned FC-31 in the presser.
Well, my point is that Jane's was once and for long the golden standard on credibility for any military news and for me it was a great honour to be asked to write for them on Chinese military aviation news! In fact it was a great time and I learnt a lot on how to post short summarised news stories, I appreciated on how they always checked the sources, preferred to be careful in case it was not 100% confirmed or if there was at least a minor chance of being wrong, so it wasn't allowed to be posted until proven or at least terms like reportedly, allegedly or based on XXX had to be added.
Then there were some internal changes, my editor was fired and replaced by a new one who often changed my text, added always his name additional or even in place of mine on-top of the reports as if he had written them and when they even "has some internal issues" on payment for more than a year I left!
By then I was replaced my an Indian, who is now responsible for the China news section and since then I think I do not need to tell you more ... at least IMO they totally lost its former glory!
As such I remain sceptical.
PS/Edit: The same author wrote this too and as it seems, only he saw this "unveiled" model of the "next generation JF-17 PFX"?
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