look what is under this H6?

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Colonel
The mystery craft is without tail fins and so is unlikely to be a space shuttle. If it's a ramjet engine testing vehicle, where's the intake?

On the last picture, how is the carrier aircraft going to take off with the shuttle underneath it? Unless the two vehicles somehow manage to mate in flight or maybe they have some sort of extension for the aircraft wheels, I don't see how that's possible.
 
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Roger604

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I agree with crobato and mxiong, this is some kind of hypersonic strike vehicle. Interesting thing is that if this is a "scaled down" model, it suggests the full scale one will be unmanned too!
 
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mxiong

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Roger604 said:
I agree with crobato and mxiong, this is some kind of hypersonic strike vehicle. Interesting thing is that if this is a "scaled down" model, it suggests the full scale one will be unmanned too!
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You are right it's unmanned, because earlier today someone posted the news showing picture of Project 863-706's remote command & control centre in Institute 611 on
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. But right now, the news link has been deleted, and
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which is a big Chinese military BBS is also inaccessible...which IMO adds authenticity to the whole story...

Oh yeah, I found it on Google cache, hails to Allmighty Google!

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Colonel
Here is another hypothesis, lol. The craft in the very first picture may have something to do with a space mission after all. Its nose section resembles that of a space shuttle and there's a semblance of wings underneath it. The craft probably does not resemble the actual configuration of the space shuttle but is an experimental vehicle to test, among other things, the shuttle's heat shield and aerodynamic performance during reentry from space.
 
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AssassinsMace

AssassinsMace

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I forgot about these pics. If it is a scaled-down model of a Chinese space shuttle, these might explain why there's no tailfin.

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Pointblank

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kickars said:
I'm pretty sure at that time Photoshop did not exist.
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It's quite easy under Photoshop to make pictures look old... that picture looks like someone took a Space Shuttle picture, chopped off the vertical stabilizer, removed the American markings, and added Chinese markings and winglets. How unoriginal.
 
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