J-35 photographed with its refueling probe cover open. The photo has been mirrored (i.e. flipped horizontally). Posted by @空警世界 on Weibo.
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J-XY/J-35 carrier-borne fighter thread
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Pronouncedly slanted tails, humped canopy, ~90 degree wing folds, sure looks like a J-35 mockup.
It is a J-35 but is it a mock up or is it a real plane is the real question.
Mockup.
lcloo
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Just mock-ups, all of them fixed and rotor wings.
really … doesn’t look like the IFR probe IMO
I think he said it's the probe cover open, not that the probe itself has been extended.
That said, who knows. It isn't that significant either way and the image quality is too poor.
Fair point on the image quality, but I thought the probe cover is attached to the probe itself? I'm under the impression that it's NOT a cover that can rotate open/detach.
Here's the J-20 IFR probe for reference.
Sort of. For modern enclosed IFR probes, the probe cover often is connected to the probe itself, but full deployment of the probe itself can involve the "cover+probe" opening and then "extending" (as in your picture) to be ready to receive fuel.
If that picture is showing an IFR probe cover, what I'm thinking is it probably isn't fully deployed in a position ready to receive fuel and thus the probe is not visible from that angle.
Alternatively it's also possible the cover itself is just the "forward" cover (which opens up to allow the probe+cover apparatus to angle outwards before the forward cover closes).
Imo either way it's not worth discussing in too much detail.
