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Shenyang FC-31 / J-31 Fighter Demonstrator
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Navy ships are not part of this at all. They have different conventions based on propulsion as far as I have read in the past.
I think this year of service/introduction naming scheme applies to Army and Air force only.
More examples will be:
ZBL-08 armored vehicles, in service from 2008
PCL-09 howitzer - in service from 2009
PHL-03 - first introduced in 2003
Type 19 uniform - first in service in 2019
Type 21 uniform - improved from type 19 into 2021
Type 07 uniform - introduced in 2007
QTS-11 rifle - first produced in 2011
QBZ 95, 191 have already mentioned before
QBU-202-service in 2020
You can pretty much go through the list of PLA equipment and see this pattern.
BTW, Russia has the same naming Sceme:
AK-47, AK-74 all the way to AK-12, AK-15. It used year of service as the naming scheme. Same thing with Tanks. T-55, T-72, T-80. T-90. T-14 the list follows exactly as the year of introduction. But they are not as consistent as the PLA in using this everywhere. PLA pretty much uses it most places.
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Another sighting of FC-31 V2.
Isn’t this old ?
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Is it? Not sure when these were taken exactly, but I've never seen them before anywhere.
Not again that BS from SCMP and even more with that totally wrong CG ... all over the social media the typical fan-boys already claim "oh look" the new production J-31B is larger, almost larger than a J-20 and it even has two (small) side weapon bays for tow small bombs each!"
Like I said so often, most likely just done intentionally by spreading this false CG, the media hype will go mad once again and the facts are gone ...
Amber Wang = Minnie Chan 2.0?
It’s Minnie under a pseudonym.
When is the J-35 expected to enter service? Is it like a year or two away or many years away?