I'm embarrassed to admit that I spent some time looking at the picture for smoke before I got that you meant smoke metaphorically...
J-20 5th Generation Fighter VII
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This video shows around 15 degrees of sustained turn rate to my untrained eye.
Not bad.
If smoke were a sure sign of engine progress maybe the FC-31 is actually already flying with the WS-19
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That image was first shared by an artist, literally a CG artist. As far as I know, he has no track record of anything beyond his military artwork. That's not to say that there isn't something happening on the engine front, but this image isn't it.
Might be passing around anecdotes for others. Feels like there's a lot more of that these days with the tighter information controls.
Is the picture on the right from July though?
That is what the tweet seems to be implying.
That is to say, maybe the original weibo post is talking about a J-20 powered by two WS-15s that's recently flown, while using a (newly released) picture from July showing the J-20 with one WS-15.
That said the weibo post itself is very vague
Oh you're right. I didn't bother reading the original Weibo post but that *is* what they seem to be implying. That would mean, if this is correct, July was a single engine test in Chengdu but they're already flying with two engines in Yanliang, which is just...
Oh you're right. I didn't bother reading the original Weibo post but that *is* what they seem to be implying. That would mean, if this is correct, July was a single engine test in Chengdu but they're already flying with two engines in Yanliang, which is just...
Yeah I'm reserving judgement at this stage as well.. though I do think something significant has definitely happened wrt the progress of J-20's engines, but I think we have all learned to be cautious with engine rumours and to see clear irrefutable evidence for claims.
So I'm now way more confident there's probably a J-20 flying around with one WS-15, even if I don't yet know whether I believe there's already a J-20 flying around with two.
There is literally nothing in the original Weibo post that suggested that it is flying with two WS-15 engines. All he said is that he saw it (near yanliang) and that it performed a vertical climb and some rolls. That’s it.
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