J-35 carrier fighter (PLAN) thread

[taxiya]

It was a while ago but official media refered it as 歼31 when giving award to the engineers.

Are you referring to the Award of Innovative People 2013?

Here is the AVIC news report

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Here is the CCTV broadcast of the ceremony November 2014,

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In both reports, Sun Cong was awarded for the work of J-15. There was nothing about FC-31, let alone the designation 歼31.

Then two months later in 2015, websites began to insert 歼31 into the event.

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CCTV-1 and AVIC outlets are official although some times they make mistakes. The rest are no more than ordinate fans.

 

[ACuriousPLAFan]

Apparently a new photograph of a J-35 undergoing flight test. Because the last number on the horizontal tail has been wiped off, so it is unclear what number is the J-35 prototype.

 

[ACuriousPLAFan]

Apparently a new photograph of a J-35 undergoing flight test. Because the last number on the horizontal tail has been wiped off, so it is unclear what number is the J-35 prototype.

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*vertical stabilizer, not horizontal tail

 

[Deino]

Apparently a new photograph of a J-35 undergoing flight test. Because the last number on the horizontal tail has been wiped off, so it is unclear what number is the J-35 prototype.

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Just found it too, but not only the deleted final digit is interesting, even more for the first time the pitot probe is missing.


So, either this is a new prototype or a modified one.

(Image via @lyman2003 from Weibo)

 

[Deino]

So there was once again a bored joker at work! Even if it's a shame, thank you very much for the clarification!

 

[siegecrossbow]

Apparently a new photograph of a J-35 undergoing flight test. Because the last number on the horizontal tail has been wiped off, so it is unclear what number is the J-35 prototype.

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They did it to mess with @Deino.

 

[Deino]

They did it to mess with @Deino.

Well, I slowly indeed get this feeling similar to the Flanker news, which were all (surely deliberately) leaked AFTER my book was published, but I'm pretty sure I'm totally un-interesting for the security services or the PLA since there are many more important OSINT, SIGINT and true intelligence guys around! I'm just a strange German with some nerdish interst in numbers.

 

[pipaster]

Does anyone know if there is a PLANAF squadron for an operational testing and evaluation squadron?

 

[ACuriousPLAFan]

F-35 (top) and J-35 side view comparison.

 

[Atomicfrog]

F-35 (top) and J-35 side view comparison.
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J-35 better have good nozzles cooling, structures are not hiding them. When we see the j-20 from the sides, we don't see the nozzles at all, tail and ventral fins hide them all, probably reducing IR signature a lot.