China's transport, tanker & heavy lift aircraft
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by78
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Could be a J-10, but missing its vertical stabilizer due to poor images quality. If not, maybe a drone?
I agree that it's most likely a J-10. From that angle, at that distance it basically looks exactly like how a J-10 would look except it's missing its vertical tail but at that distance at that specific angle it wouldn't be a surprise if the vertical tail looked like it "disappeared".
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I dont think that you can speak for the rest of the forum. And yes, my "relentless (and unsubstantiated) pessimism" will come to an end....when it is confirmed, which i dont think that should take long.
DO it have another probe in the middle? It look white and in place of the cargo door. It practically look like a short boom ? They don't use boom in any PLAAF aircraft no ?Various Y-20U tanker sightings.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
No booms only PLA Aircraft. It probably doesn’t have a third Drogue. Not yet.
Maybe it's a structure for onboard camera to help the refueling ?
My bad. I was wondering why they would painstakingly fake a 20 sec video like that so I asked a few questions about it. I suppose the increase in clicks/subscriptions/revenue are worth the high effort, since fake videos require more effort than Photoshop/deepfakes
I mean I heard somewhere the refueling probe is typically stored to the side and would only protrude during refuelling? Is it different because of the requirements of J20?