Chinese UCAV/CCA/flying wing drones (ISR, A2A, A2G) thread
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The Chinese military literally stated all the shown equipment are in service. Whether presented during the parade as a mockup form or a live example. Not experimental tech demonstrators (those things are never shown publicly at least officially unless it is leaked or cannot be hidden e.g. Type 055 test rig). They are not prototypes. They are not even test airframes for IOTE. They said operational units. They've never given reason to doubt and haven't been proven wrong before. There's also no evidence to support an idea of the Chinese MoD over-representing or overstating capabilities they don't have.
I challenge anyone to find and offer one single example where the Chinese MoD officially stated something that was proven without doubt to be false ( I know China haters will bring up poor examples of subjective or obfuscated stuff like who won what war and that sort of wishy washy nonsense). Give one example where they officially announced or disclosed a piece of military equipment that wasn't a real thing and in service. Counter example would be Iranian government officially declaring they have the Qaher 313 fighter.
That attention to detail and surface quality made it look like a perfectly mold formed mockup until the high res images became available.
Mockups dont (at least in the past) go to this level of detail. Like the WZ-8 in the previous parade and then shown in Zhuhai, these might be real airframes being shown. Which begs the question why they didn't bother sending the real airframes for the two medium CCAs they revealed.
I'd say the one on the right side was not shown, it was the larger tailed lambda drone with the weird wing.