broadsword
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The vertical tails are huge and to have two of them makes it like overkill when it is not a fighter.
Chinese UAV/UCAV development
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JayBird
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Wow... thank you for the pic! We finally get to see some what clear pic of what Divine Eagle looks like. It makes that bus behind looks small. haha.... More high quality pics please!omg
janjak desalin
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a two-headed dragon!!!
What makes you think large vertical tails should be exclusive to fighters?
Do you seriously believe the large vertical tails are not there for a purpose?
I wonder if there are antenna arrays buried inside along the front grey part of the tails.
Perhaps the twin body like nature of the aircraft make it resist yawing and rolling more so large vertical control surfaces are needed. Or maybe it's just a bit heavy towards the back so more pointing stability is required. Well it's a prototype so nothing is final.
Perhaps the twin body like nature of the aircraft make it resist yawing and rolling more so large vertical control surfaces are needed. Or maybe it's just a bit heavy towards the back so more pointing stability is required. Well it's a prototype so nothing is final.
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broadsword
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Just my observation.
Sure, and I also agree that the vertical tails are quite large, but calling them overkill, and then tying the idea of vertical tails to fighter aircraft is not very logical.
omg
Just trying to be thorough, are there indications this is not a PS job? The low quality image makes it hard to tell.
The picture is actually fairly high quality, compared to previous pictures.
Still, e can't ever rule out the possibility of PS or CGI here on SDF...
But some of the indications of PS for me are:
-picture background is known to us
-picture foreground/subject is known to us
-picture shadows or colours or light reflection looks off
-subject depicted in picture is "not expected" (that is, no previous low quality leaks prior to a higher quality photo)
In this case, both the background and the subject (uav) in the photo are new to my eyes, and we've had previous low quality leaks which seem to correspond with many of the features on this uav from previous lower quality pictures. There are some differences between the uav in this picture and the lower quality pictures, but that could be a result of possibly painting over some parts of the uav or modifications, compared to when the earlier photos were taken, or simply due to the lower quality of previous images or even deliberate self censorship blurring in previous pics.
Now, this doesn't rule out the possibility that the uav could be a very good CGI upon a real background, a few years back we were all tricked by a "JH-7B" like that, as well as a "Mi-46" CGI as well.
For this particular picture, I see no reason to suspect it is a CGI or PS but I also wouldn't 100% say in confidence that it is legitimate. Optimally we will have a few other pictures soon from multiple angles, which would suggest the photo is real as it is typically far harder to create multiple realistic CGIs from different angles with accompanying different backgrounds.
I'm almost completely confident this picture is real, but I'd like a few other pictures in due course to confirm.
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