Chinese UCAV/CCA/flying wing drones (ISR, A2A, A2G) thread

[GTI]

With the less than ideal photo quality, that's probably just one of the rear landing gear bay doors.

I dunno… it just seems a little, large?

And they seem round. I thought landing gear bay as well, perhaps heavily sawtoothed with the added impact of some kind of native AI processing from the device that took the picture (but it’s a still from a video though?).

 

[ACuriousPLAFan]

Imagine if this aircraft is actually a 6th-gen manned (carrier-based) fighter instead of a high-tier CCA-type UCAV, so let's prepare just in case.

 

[Nx4eu]

It does appear to be rather large in these photo's. Assuming that tiny front dot is the nose gear, and unless that nose gear is comically small. It would appear to be at least similar in size to the J-36 no?
I've put together some images of the J-36 we have at similar angles:

 

[by78]

A friend just sent me these two in reply to my CCA post on X:


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One more.

 

[ACuriousPLAFan]

It does appear to be rather large in these photo's. Assuming that tiny front dot is the nose gear, and unless that nose gear is comically small. It would appear to be at least similar in size to the J-36 no?
I've put together some images of the J-36 we have at similar angles:
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Now that you mentioned and compared them, they do look rather (if not just largely) similar. Hmm...

 

[zyklon]

Is this already known? quick google lens showed me this. Looks like some school projects

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That's apparently a patent for a variable-sweep wing carrier-based aircraft (变后掠翼舰载机) design, or so it reads, assigned to Northwestern Polytechnical University (西北工业大学), which is no ordinary school.

They've done a significant amount of work for the Chinese military-industrial complex over the decades, on top of the human capital they've trained and contributed.

For example, the good folks at 西北工业大学 — or more precisely, a subordinate institute, laboratory and/or subsidiary — were responsible for designing and engineering the ASN-301 loitering munition:



The networks of 西北工业大学 have

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, which should tell you that some of their aviation projects don't exactly exist to train undergrads, but principally to yield deliverables that'll shape and impact the battlefield.

 

[Deino]

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Any hint WHERE this thing was seen?

 

[by78]

Any hint WHERE this thing was seen?

Nope.

 

[Nx4eu]

Now that you mentioned and compared them, they do look rather (if not just largely) similar. Hmm...

Yeah my first instinct was this could be some photoshopped J-36's, with the similarities I saw in some of the details, like the landing gear door sticking out, pitot tube and nose shape.

 

[bsdnf]

ngl, this reminds me of the early GCAP/tempest