J-20 5th Gen Fighter Thread VIII
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that looks like 55thHey guys ... the number is what matters! We maybe have a new brigade confirmed.
i'm inclined to believe scramble has additional sources on this.
Scramble lists them as rumoured since some time, but we haven't seen an image yet confirming them at Jining.
Left : xx664 .... 6665x : Right
So in summary 66664 ... which makes perfect sense for 55th AB - aka a 66x6x serial number - and as such confirmed this as the first spatted aircraft assigned to this unit.
On the other side, xx represents the individual number within that unit and as such would mean this is aircraft no. 64!
Me again ... In fact I'm still not 100% sure ... if you look closely, then the penultimate digit looks more like a 5 than a 6, which would suggest 66x54 instead of 66x64 and that would make it the 54th AB, which would be another surprise.
All the images I recall have a slight difference between 5 and 6. The 6 in it's top right corner is curved down a bit, while 5 is always totally flat.
From your post on a previous page,
The middle bar in 5 is also closer to the top.
Indeed … but I heated some rumours, the 54th AB would be similar to the 6th AB fielding almost two „units“ or being a „huge“ brigade with both Su-30MKK and J-20. The 6th for example has Su-35, Su-30MKK and J-16.