PLAAF Rumours and Speculation (And sources to go to for R and S)

Blitzo

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New thread hopefully to put the OT posts from the AESA thread.

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But also, I hope this thread will act as a go-to place for people (who can't read chinese) but who want to get up to date with the rumors and speculation going on, and which sources to trust and which to not.

Like, post links to pages which are fairly reliable (hopefully in english), and also posters on this forum or other forums who are and we'll have a discussion on how reliable they are etc so new members can get acquintaned and familiar.
For example, the most obvious place I can think of is Huitong's site:
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Over at CDF =GT is a reliable poster and for me broke the first definite news about the J-20 late last year, pasting a paragraph with lots of deatils about the J-20s cockpit, paintscheme, nose probe, etc. Pinko at Key Forums is good as well.


What do you guys think of the idea of listing reliable posters/sites? It may get a little personal, due to inevitable debate over validity of sources but I think we need a definite list to rely on, espicially with all these new PLAAF developments going on.
 

Deino

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Sorry - since I can't read Chinese - but which one is that "strategic bomber" ?

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Semi-Lobster

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It's the one directly below the circled "4th gen fighter".

A strategic bomber by definition is a very large, heavy, long range aircraft. Wonder if this will turn out to be real or a pipe-dream? Also what's the JH-7 above the circled mystery aircraft and J-10A?
 

siegecrossbow

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A strategic bomber by definition is a very large, heavy, long range aircraft. Wonder if this will turn out to be real or a pipe-dream? Also what's the JH-7 above the circled mystery aircraft and J-10A?

That's not the JH-7, that's the JF-17 prototype (before it got DSI intakes).
 

dingyibvs

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A strategic bomber by definition is a very large, heavy, long range aircraft. Wonder if this will turn out to be real or a pipe-dream? Also what's the JH-7 above the circled mystery aircraft and J-10A?

That's a JF-17, and the circled aircraft is the J-20. The mystery "strategic bomber" is below it.
 

johnqh

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The color code is interesting.

Note, the yellow J-10A is after gray J-10B, and then there is a line-art J-10B "first flight".

My guess:
Green means production.
Yellow means first flight.
Gray means "project started".
Line-art means future.
 
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