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Interesting, the J-16 shown looks like serial number 68190 assigned to the 78th Air Brigade (94826) based at Shanghai-Chongming Island, ETC.

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... and the Y-9Z (GX-12) seems to be the already seen one with serial number 30772 assigned to the 26th Specialised Division, 77th Airborne Command and Control Regiment based at Wuxi-Shuofang, ETC.

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sunnymaxi

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ACuriousPLAFan said:
Interesting excerpt from an academic paper on a bi-fuselage, quad-engine aircraft design. The dimensions listed are of course scaled down. Posted by @Alfa_Particle on Twitter.

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so Sino Stratolaunch but with four Engines ? interesting

Scaled Composites Model 351 Stratolaunch in flight over the city of Los Angeles (2023)
 
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Maikeru said:
Notably, he seems to expect 6th gens to enter PLAAF service by 2030 and thinks Shenyang's Flanker production (all types) is at about 100 per annum.
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IMO, seems reasonable as there is a good amount of legacy J-15s to be replaced, though I expect J-16 production to start winding down to make more room for J-35s. 6th gens in late stages of IOTE by 2030 seems plausible as well.
 
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Maikeru said:
Interesting and blessedly cope-free (except for very last paragraph) overview of Russian and Chinese air forces development since 2020.

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Notably, he seems to expect 6th gens to enter PLAAF service by 2030 and thinks Shenyang's Flanker production (all types) is at about 100 per annum.
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I should note that his part on PLA matters is somewhat informed by what is on the English language side, which in turn is filtered through by places like SDF.

All of which is to say, his writeup is relatively close to what we understand on certain matters and is laudable for paying attention to the right noises -- but I also wouldn't use it as an independent data point/predictor for our purposes.
 
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Did even Mitchell say 100 flankers per year? i know they said that about j20. But even IF they did claim that for flankers i would wager they misunderstood something.
I know that Daniel Rice said 100 flankers were produced, quoted by air and space magazine, but he is an independent analyst working for a think tank.

There is no indication of flanker production being that high. As far as i know.
 
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