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latenlazy

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by78 said:
I have made a hasty mistake in translating the press release. The original Chinese captioning for the first photo (shown below) states "图1 xx翼结构设计与测试", which translate as "Photo 1, XX wing structural design and testing". It didn't mention Project 089 at all.

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Sinosoldier isn’t wrong either though. The text actually does mention that project 089 uses a delta wing.
 
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Klon

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There are many results when searching for a "Project 089", in Chinese or English. One thing that receives multiple mentions is high speed weapons.
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to the Rocket Force’s program, Beijing has been developing hypersonic weapons through another route. A state-owned firm is engaged in the “089 Project” aimed at developing such weapons to be launched atop long-range ballistic missiles to breach the U.S. mainland missile defense shield.
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to the report, the 10th Research Institute of the First Research Institute of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (the 10th Institute of Aerospace) has undertaken the highly confidential "089 Special Strategic Gliding Weapons Program".
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Of course I can't guarantee the correctness of these excerpts.
 
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taxiya

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jobjed said:
He said military hospitals, not the usual civie ones. However, the latest round of cuts to PLA personnel have resulted in many military hospitals being transferred to normal civilian administration.
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I know he was saying military one. Military hospitals were open to civilian long time ago before the current cut since Xi became the president. Including the hospital (301) that is responsible for the top leaders. I say this because I visited doctors in 301 myself before Xi's reform and I saw many civilian patients.

In reality and fair comparison, PLA hospitals are no more special than a civilian hospital owned by a state institution. Hospital owned by the Petroleum ministry may provide favourable treatment to their own employees just like PLA counterparts to PLA servicemen, but also open to other civilians not in their employment so long as there is agreement with the local government for payment transfer. I am talking about pre-Xi period.

The different fees/costs applied is not because of privilege of social class (no perk), but because of tax funding, same as a Beijing resident has to pay higher surgery bills in Shanghai hospital if he/she is not taxed in Shanghai.
 
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PiSigma

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taxiya said:
How do you "know" all these? I have many relatives in PLA (one is up to the rank of major general). I know for certain that there are no such things. Commissioned officers and their family members pay the bill as civilians. Civilians can and very often go to the military hospitals without restrictions.
PLA officers did in the past get free medical care and housing before JUST like other state employees, but that was decade ago before the reform to mandated commercial insurance.
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Still got lots of relatives in the military, including one that runs a military hospital.
 
Phoenix_Rising

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SinoSoldier said:
1. Project 089 is probably the J-XY carrier-based 5th-generation fighter. This is my personal guess.
2. YJ-21 could be the shipborne AShBM; the reason why I suspect this (once again, my personal guess) is that high-strength alloys are needed for the aerodynamic stresses of atmospheric re-entry and high-G maneuvers (as in pull-up maneuvers).
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Here is a screenshot from the news about a national award to “certain test base located in northwest”. Despite the pitiful low-res, clearly we can see the delta-wing.

Looks like we finally get an official codename of WU-14, aka DF-ZF.
 

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A blogger who supposedly lives beside SAC (and whom Huitong follows) claims that a new aircraft made its maiden flight, and that it supposedly uses thrust vectoring engines.
Note: help needed in translating the portion talking about thrust vectoring engine.
近期某型机X号完成了首飞，这是记某型机采用矢量发动机后，又一种采用矢量发动机的战斗机。
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