J-20 5th Generation Fighter VII

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We may debate the quality of CG and general pacing of the PLAAF recruitment vide, but one thing you can’t deny is that hiring a well known actor/boy band lead paid off.

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Original post on PLAAF official Weibo: 69,000 likes and 8600 comments.

Linked post on Jackson Yee’s Weibo: a staggering 450,000 likes and 101,000 comments.

You have to remember that recruitment video targets young people. PLAAF may also see a rash of female applicants.
 
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Bltizo said:
Sorry I don't quite understand your question.

I don't think we've seen any J-20s with testing phase pitot tubes since like prototype sn 2012. Prototype and production J-20s since then have all lacked the pitot you are taking about.


And it's only in later production aircraft that we saw J-20s with the additional weapons bay dark outline treatment.


So if the question is whether the aircraft in the pictures is configured similarly with production J-20s that we know of, the answer should be a definite yes.
I.e. there's nothing on the aircraft itself that looks out of place imo
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Sorry my questions were put in a broken manner.

The bold text was also my thought and reason for asking. If as we have observed that only prototypes have the pitot tube. This one in the photo should be a serial production one, right? But it lacks the edge treatment of the doors. As I remember all serial productions have their doors treated. It is these two seemingly contradictory features made me asking the question.

When you said "later production aircraft", do you mean some early production aircraft did not have the treatment? Maybe I did not pay attention, just have never seen them.
 
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taxiya said:
Sorry my questions were put in a broken manner.

The bold text was also my thought and reason for asking. If as we have observed that only prototypes have the pitot tube. This one in the photo should be a serial production one, right? But it lacks the edge treatment of the doors. As I remember all serial productions have their doors treated. It is these two seemingly contradictory features made me asking the question.

When you said "later production aircraft", do you mean some early production aircraft did not have the treatment? Maybe I did not pay attention, just have never seen them.
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Yes to the underlined part.

The treatment to the weapons bay doors only emerged on production aircraft sometime after the first aircraft delivered to Dingxin had them, i.e.: the 7827X aircraft.

Those aircraft were the ones which participated in the 2017 PLA parade as well as that made an appearance at Zhuhai 2016 I believe.

Huitong keeps a track of all of the confirmed serials on his website, if you scroll down to the J-20 part you can see all of the 7827X aircraft identified and click on them to see their images; you will note they lack the treatments.

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Bltizo said:
Sorry I don't quite understand your question.

I don't think we've seen any J-20s with testing phase pitot tubes since like prototype sn 2012. Prototype and production J-20s since then have all lacked the pitot you are taking about.


And it's only in later production aircraft that we saw J-20s with the additional weapons bay dark outline treatment.


So if the question is whether the aircraft in the pictures is configured similarly with production J-20s that we know of, the answer should be a definite yes.
I.e. there's nothing on the aircraft itself that looks out of place imo
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Do we know if the original black prototype also had the smaller pitots on the sides? I wonder if the smaller pitot is replacing the bigger one or if they serve a different purpose. Hmmm...
 
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boytoy said:
Do we know if the original black prototype also had the smaller pitots on the sides? I wonder if the smaller pitot is replacing the bigger one or if they serve a different purpose. Hmmm...
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The original tech demo airframes s/n 2001 and 2002 had the smaller air data probes on the sides as well as their larger radome/nose air data probe/pitot.

It's normal for tech demo and prototype airframes of a new aircraft to have a dedicated larger air data probe on or near the tip of the nose, which then get removed as they move into mature prototypes, pre-production and production airframes.
 
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Air-to-air missiles under her wings... Judging by the red PLAAF roundels/insignias, this is one of the earlier prototypes.

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by78 said:
Air-to-air missiles under her wings... Judging by the red PLAAF roundels/insignias, this is one of the earlier prototypes.

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Strange paint job on the nose. Maybe it didn't have a radar to begin with and they fitted one after a while ?
 
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