Even though grainy, photo does make the nosecone look smaller compared to the J-20's tester. Can even make out a side window. Is there also a chin mounted EOTS? Most likely testing for J-35. What else is there really with this geometry? Certainly can't be for a flanker or JF-17.
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Even though grainy, photo does make the nosecone look smaller compared to the J-20's tester. Can even make out a side window. Is there also a chin mounted EOTS? Most likely testing for J-35. What else is there really with this geometry? Certainly can't be for a flanker or JF-17.
I don't know where you see changes in comparison to the previous one and even more that EOTS is also visible in the older image left. As such I see nothing that hints towards a modification related to the J-35 and I'm not even sure if it is a recent image.
It seems significantly smaller (and shorter) than the old one to me... But other than that, there's not much detail I can tell from it...
Yankee wrote an article last month talking about this
J-7 fighter are still active in the sky of China
Only reserved for training purposes.
yuxiaochen
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This might be a wild guess, 六弟 means the sixth brother, but these shelters are not for J-6, since they are all retired. So maybe they are fo J-16D? since the pronunciation for 弟 in chinese is D, and there is a way of calling someone with close relation by their last word of the first name.