No shade but India should no longer be a part of the conversation here. IAF is utterly incompetent and until they can pull a complete 180, they're no longer worth discussing
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Even you haters have to admit that this remedy was super effective.
If I'm interpreting this right, doesn't this imply that the PAF basically grounded the Indian Air Force for nearly 2 days after the initial dogfight? This is downright insane if there's even a modicum of truth to this. I knew very little of Pakistani Air Force before this but wow, I wasn't aware of their game.
F-47.
Looks a lot like a massively scaled up version of the Dark Sword.
Maybe even some kind of VTOL prototype/test bed.
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For the purposes of discussion, we can assume it is real (that is, the satellite image is real) -- it could just represent a mockup of any sort of variety. Either a RCS testbed for general investigation purposes, or a poor quality J-20 mockup, or just a generic mockup.
Unless there's additional information, assuming the image is real doesn't mean the depicted object itself is significant in any form.
There are probably dozens or hundreds of various mockups or structural airframes for various developmental or research purposes that don't really have any importance.
Might be one of the many X-planes or rejected/failed programs that wont make it to light of day until decades later. Quite a bit larger than the heavy UADFs so probably meant to be a manned fighter. Certainly nowhere near as sophisticated looking as the J-36 and J-50. Vertical stabilisers are apparent in the sat photo. Can't be much better than J-20. What would be the point as a next generation fighter?
Dark Sword has clearly been superseded by UADFs. Dark Sword does look like it would turn considerably better than the UADFs though. High supersonic UADF please PLAAF? China's still testing RBCC engines suitable for reusable high supersonic drones but no doubt high supersonic air combat UAVs are the next step. Dark Sword would be stealthy enough and at least about 5th gen fighter level VLO. If UADFs are topping out between mach 1 and 2, a mach 3 capable UADF would be yet another PLAAF boundary pushing bit of kit.
Dark Sword has clearly been superseded by UADFs. Dark Sword does look like it would turn considerably better than the UADFs though. High supersonic UADF please PLAAF? China's still testing RBCC engines suitable for reusable high supersonic drones but no doubt high supersonic air combat UAVs are the next step. Dark Sword would be stealthy enough and at least about 5th gen fighter level VLO. If UADFs are topping out between mach 1 and 2, a mach 3 capable UADF would be yet another PLAAF boundary pushing bit of kit.
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Fvck, China made the F-47 before the Boeing ever did! Trump better apologize to Xi now for pissing him off - And politely ask China to help building up America's 6th-gen fleet.
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