J-20 5th Generation Fighter VII

Temstar said:

Variable sweep wings were main wings, which necessitate some heavy duty equipment at the wing root due to the forces involved. A variable geometry tail might not have as big of a disadvantage since it's much smaller in scale.

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Well, more moving parts equals more susceptible to failures. Especially being a stealth 5G aircraft, there is a chance of compounding failures due to other issues - computer aided control, stealth treatment etc.
My point is that the model studied has not 2 but 4 different swing actuators. I don't trust them.
Can't have a hangar queen. Anything but that. I don't mind lack of stealth but I do mind if an airforce can't put enough aircraft up in the sky in enough numbers in short notice

More high-quality screen shots.

Posting two lost images.

These images came directly from 611. They accompanied a brief official blurb about how a special project team for a new fighter is working feverishly. The inscription on the trophy looking thing in the first image says "special project team/task force for a certain twin-seater project".

I think this is the clearest hint or confirmation so far of a twin-seater J-20 being actively worked on.

by78 said:

More high-quality screen shots.

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what is this?

reflection of the HMD???

stannislas said:

what is this?

reflection of the HMD???

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Nope, it's just some overlay graphics done during post-processing. See for yourself.

by78 said:

Nope, it's just some overlay graphics done during post-processing. See for yourself.

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Just look at the static screen capture I would have agreed that it is post-processing overlay by poster. But in the video, the "over-lay" are moving wildly, it looks more like a reflection of some device on the visor. The irregular movement would be easily explained. A video post processing overlay should have stayed at a fixed position.

Also, if you look carefully, not only the pointer moves left and right, the digits also changes.

But on the other hand, the thing even overlay over the helmet which does not reflect. This may mean that it is overlay of the camera in the cockpit. What that is for I have no idea.

I got 16796327981 then 27807439092 in a time span less than a second. Certainly not time stamp of camera, nor GPS coordinate. The blocks under are likely Chinese characters. But they are too blurred by the motion to be recognizable. It must be something on the camera for the purpose of recording the cockpit.

taxiya said:

Just look at the static screen capture I would have agreed that it is post-processing overlay by poster. But in the video, the "over-lay" are moving wildly, it looks more like a reflection of some device on the visor. The irregular movement would be easily explained. A video post processing overlay should have stayed at a fixed position.

Also, if you look carefully, not only the pointer moves left and right, the digits also changes.

But on the other hand, the thing even overlay over the helmet which does not reflect.

Very strange.

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Yeah, it's quite odd that it's there in the first place, isn't it? The rest of the video features no overlaid graphics. Do you have an idea what the graphic represent?

It's possible the cockpit camera lense is catching some kind of reflection, however unlikely that is. Looking at the graphic some more, it almost seems as if the cockpit cam was sitting behind a pane of glass, and the graphic is a reflection projected onto that pane of glass from an unknown source. The camera just happens to catch that reflection on the glass, which appears as a graphic superimposed on the pilot, as if the whole thing is an accidental holographic HUD.

by78 said:

Yeah, it's quite odd that it's there in the first place, isn't it? The rest of the video features no overlaid graphics. Do you have an idea what the graphic represent?

It's possible the cockpit camera lense is catching some kind of reflection, however unlikely that is. It almost seems as if the camera itself sits behind a pane of glass, and the graphic is a reflection projected onto that pane of glass from an unknown source, almost like an accidental HUD.

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I updated my post after you replied.

But on the other hand, the thing even overlay over the helmet which does not reflect. This may mean that it is overlay of the camera in the cockpit. What that is for I have no idea.

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I thought of some glass in front of the lens but being part of the camera setup. Now after reading your reply, I think/agree that it could be that the camera is sitting behind the HUD looking at the pilot partially through the HUD. That would explain everything from wildly changing digits, moving needle and overlayed image on the non-reflective helmet.