You can't have both ways Bub! I don't reveal my sources. Then again I don't post outragious nonsense!
my friend you should remember a bible verse a proverb in Chapter 3:7, no one think we are not right, i am convinced you think you are right and I am wrong, and you can say viceversa about me.
That is the reason why it reminds us to submit to God`s law.
And that means also to be honest and humble.
I will tell you honestly one thing is affirm 055 was written off and another speculate it was written off, at university, when you are about to graduate, you have a final examination, any contradiction we say lowers our last grade.
Same is in this case the difference between affirming 055 was written off and another speculating it was written off, there is a very big gap.
In science, and History is science, one crack, one inconsistency in the theory, can bring down a whole paradigm, a hypothesis, a theory.
If i affirm J-20 weighs 38 tonnes you automatically will ask me where is your source, if i say a TV interview by Chinese TV where a Chengdu designer said that, and i prove it, i will rest my case, but if i do not, you can say you have no clue, or you are speculating.
Now imagine i write in Wikipedia J-20 weighs 40 tonnes, they will ask me sources, if i can defend it my modification and editing will stay, if i give a good source, proof, in an interview on Chinese TV by a Chengdu official or Chengdu`s official website no one will doubt about me, but if not, then they will simply edit my participation.
Same is what you say, i did not say you are wrong however i did not say you are right either.
I simply said you have no proof from an official source, you can speculate based upon your experience in life, that is valid but see the difference between speculating and affirming, a good historian will never affirm if he or she can not prove something, Archaeology is based upon the idea when historical sources are ambiguous, then you go to material remains, i doubt you or me have access or will ever have access to 055 and confirm it is a new aircraft or the same aircraft just repaired.
A historian in the future might get access to that information, but see, at least now Sukhoi officially does not support your views regardless you say you know the Russian lie and they are compulsive liars.