Depending on what stage of completion the various parts of the airframe were built to prior to transport, it may well be possible they've chosen to transport these major subcomponents at earlier stages than they did for the initial FC-31 V1 airframe.
A few other observations;
- is the airframe being transported in the rear a second duplicate of the same aft section that we are seeing closer to the camera? I.e.: are they transporting two aft sections of the same kind of aircraft?
- is it just me, or does the "front" of the aft section (both closer to the camera and further from the camera) seem to have some "jagged" parts protruding despite the not-quite-airtight tarp covering them? I.e.: do they look like serrations to anyone else?
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If these aft sections are indeed related to FC-31/J-XY in any way, I note that there doesn't seem to be a central tailsting/boom like on the FC-31 V1 and V2.
Of course, on FC-31 V1/V2 that central tailsting/boom was quite small to begin with....
OTOH, I also note that the JL-10 doesn't have a central tailsting/boom.
So who knows what this thing is. There are good arguments that it may be a FC-31 derived aircraft like J-XY, or it might only be JL-10.
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