Mystery aircraft 4th August 2025: CCA vs other

Ringsword said:

It looks like the J36 and the J50 mated and had a lovechild-not technical but the USAF holding on to PPT F-47/F55 diagrams might be apoplectic right now!

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Could be the reason why we haven't seen J35 for quite a while, refrained from flying due to pregnancy.

arthur2046 said:

They've hinted that this aircraft might just be a university's experimental project and probably won't go into mass production. Back during China's earlier development stages when resources were tighter, the country needed to pool resources into flagship research programs. That's why most aircraft models revealed back then ended up being mass-produced. But now that China has greater resources, many universities and institutions are pursuing all kinds of experimental projects—plenty not even aimed at mass production. They're asking everyone to temper expectations and not get too hyped up about this particular aircraft.

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They're just trolling Trump.

USA: With the rising costs and complexities of 6th gen aircraft design, we have decided to cut other projects and go all in on one viable design, the F-47, which we are discussing the design requirements for now.

China: OK, yous hotshot tech universities can each come up with a 6th gen prototype and we'll do a fly-off a the end of the year to see which university ranks the highest.

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics: I think that's an unreasonable demand.... to make it so that each university can only enter 1 prototype when we have several teams that all want to compete and can each put one together.

siegecrossbow said:

It’s entirely possible that they are thinking ahead and want to develop it for export somewhere down the road.

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Quick, someone photoshop a PAF roundel and 'leak' it to Pakistan netizens so that they can annoy Deino for the next decade or so with claims of imminent delivery of 6th Gen fighters from China.

F=XX Corsair said:

Could be the reason why we haven't seen J35 for quite a while, refrained from flying due to pregnancy.

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Just to troll....I mean to "honour" our American "friends" this new baby shall be named J-47!! as 47 is between J36 and J50-daddy and mommy

Is this J-XDS or our mysterious new friend?

valysre said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1953294384344252807

Is this J-XDS or our mysterious new friend?

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With that resolution it could even be F-47…

valysre said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1953294384344252807

Is this J-XDS or our mysterious new friend?

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Where is this?

I believe the reason Chinese forums have remained silent on this matter is that many ordinary military enthusiasts believe most of these photos have been edited using Photoshop (e.g., on Baidu Tieba or Bilibili).

Tomboy said:

Where is this?

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I don't know, but assuming the video was posted to Twitter around the time it was actually filmed, then it would be more likely to be near Shenyang than Chengdu or Xian. Pretty much everything southwest of Beijing has been under cloud cover for the past day, and we can see very clear blue skies in the shot.

Looked a bit more at the cloud coverage over Shenyang, and I think that it was filmed roughly SSW-ish of Shenyang city center at around 9:30 AM local. Take this with a very large mound of salt.

Rational thinks it's a Sukhoi, it seems to have tails. but who knows at this resolution.