Maybe its a PS? Here is a sat pic which has the equipment in the same exact position. Then again, could be coincidence.
Chinese UAV/UCAV development
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If it's a "groundbreaking" and "new" development or pictures posted from that twitter account, always hold fire and correlate first with other more reliable sources before posting it as if it is real.
He actively posts doctored images and either tries to pass them off as if they are real knowingly, or he does so without caring.
The RCS tester certainly has a different geometry. Tester shape looks of an HGV rather than a drone.
A second thought about the suspected Dark Sword tail component. Since the engine opening isn't truly circular, will this component be the tail of a new hypersonic aircraft with TBCC engine?
Shouldn't this go in the UAV thread?
This looks like an evolution of the Divine Eagle and closer to some of the original studies of the UAV platform that led to Divine Eagle.
The configuration here is somewhat closer but still very different to the US Sensor Craft concept.
By Dark Sword I guess you meant WZ-8 that was revealed in 2019 parade.
However the Dark Sword model revealed by AVIC many years ago was this.
And it does look very close to
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