J-35 carrier fighter (PLAN) thread
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Already in service, first squadrons to receive it are mixed j20-j35 research squadrons to develop appropriate tactics and experience with the new aircraft.
Supposedly the only things in the parade are things already in service. It's pretty clear J-35(A?) will be in the parade so that means it's in service:
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By any chance, do you know where can I watch the parade live stream? Did cpc-sponsored youtube channel stream in the past? Yes, the main CCTV Channel This is the 2019 one
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If you look at state media it has said the things that will shown will all be in service
It might be that the policy to only show off things in service is new to this year or didn't apply in 2019, I'm not sure. Regardless, going by what official media has released at least for this year only things in service will appear in the parade, past events notwithstanding.
2019 was also a different parade for the 70th anniversary of the PRC. This years parade is for the 80th anniversary of the war over Japan
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Here we are talking about the naval J-35 and at least from what is confirmed the two aircraft doing the rehearsals are 100% confirmed prototypes and NOT operational ones!
Those flying with J-20 are not yet identified and as explained above ... I rate this a bit too much of PR. Last parade it was similar claimed and the CG-11 is still not in service (confirmed at least) and also the KJ-600s seen are all prototypes. As such I won't be surprised if the two J-35As seen so far are also the two we know from Zhuhai.
I think he's saying that the types shown should be in services, not the specific aircrafts flown during the parade. The DF-17s in the parade for examples were just models, but the type was in service.