For those who think that'd be too much work to go into faking it just to screw Pinkov, perhaps you chaps forgot that bald guy once made a wager in calling China can't roll out 4th-generation (by Western standard) fighters within 4 years, and he'd have Kanwa close down the Chinese publishing if he was wrong...if I remember correctly that wager is close to the deadline and I won't be surprised that those in China want to take a swing at someone that draw a lot of their hate.
For one I'm dead broke to make a bet, and for two it's just too early to call it real deal.
See, if they want to give a display for the leaders, if it need not for a demo flight they don't need to toll it outside, just do it inside a hanger would be sufficient; neither would there be any need to toll a mockup outside.
And not just it's too early to call, the level of wishful thinking displayed here is...disturbing. Besides, the insignia on the tailfin is non-standard, and PLAAF has the standard enforced quite strictly; colors ain't primer and neither the standard air-superiority scheme used across the board. RAM material? Perhaps but why not in the standard air-superiority scheme, like the Americans'?
Until there're clearer pics and better, at takeoff/landing ones, I maintain my stand in not taking them for real.
