Actually this is not the correct thread for this post . This thread is for the naval version which I doubt is going to be exported .
J-35 carrier fighter (PLAN) thread
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If it is the wrong place. I think a mod could probably move the post over there. Since I don’t really follow the FC-31 too much.
I wasn’t really being a stickler I was just mentioning it.
No worries. Just saying if it isn’t in the proper place then the mods can move it if necessary. Don’t see a reason to post the link twice.
Correction!!
According to this @CASI_Research report, there are now already two J-35 mock-ups (?) on the PLAN carrier test and training base at Huangdicun ... and NOT at Wuhan, as I tweeted before. Sorry for that stupid mistake.
The second image is from 28. December 2021
According to this @CASI_Research report, there are now already two J-35 mock-ups (?) on the PLAN carrier test and training base at Huangdicun ... and NOT at Wuhan, as I tweeted before. Sorry for that stupid mistake.
The second image is from 28. December 2021
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I think that's J-35/J-XY not FC-31. Because they obviously have folding wings.
As I wrote on Twitter, this is at Huangdicun which is the carrier test and training base (the one with the ski jumps, arresting gear, and catapults on site), as specified by the CASI document... not the Wuhan concrete carrier.
The folding wings means it can only be J-XY/J-35, not FC-31.
And next to it are two J-15s.
J-XYs/J-35s and J-15s at Huangdicun are of course entirely expected given it's a carrier test/training base and a naval air station overall.
The question is whether those are real aircraft or simply elaborate mockups with folding wings... at the moment I think the possibility of them (all four aircraft in the picture) being real is certainly not low, in fact it might even be high.
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