The general planform is congruent with that of the J-XDS but the tail portion seems too large. Could anyone geolocate this, based on the nearby shops?
Shenyang next gen combat aircraft (?J-XDS)
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The general planform is congruent with that of the J-XDS but the tail portion seems too large. Could anyone geolocate this, based on the nearby shops?
Type A UADF?
The tail looks to have nozzles for two engines.
The nacelles are extended very far out from the wing so it might be a drone.
Or the Rumored JH-18？
They removed the ailerons and other moving surfaces so it might gave the illusion of longer nacelles. Imagine this but without the moving surfaces.
At the very least, it's much larger than the Type A or Type B UADFs. If you compare to the white van in the background which are on average are about 5m long, you can see that the covered plane is a little more than 4 times the van's length give or take a bit. That puts it around the 20m+ length range, much more than the UADFs which are around 13-14m length range, when they estimated at the parade.
But yeah, that thing is huuuuuuuge when you see it compared to everything else on the road. Kinda funny that it's just trundling down some random road on its trailer with no other obfuscation or protection besides a tarp.
But yeah, that thing is huuuuuuuge when you see it compared to everything else on the road. Kinda funny that it's just trundling down some random road on its trailer with no other obfuscation or protection besides a tarp.
Could this just be another airframe configuration they wanted to test? Or should they be set in stone by now
Well, we have no reason to think it is actually different in configuration to what we've seen so far, if we take on the very reasonable assumption that the airframe just doesn't have its various control surfaces installed for transport purposes.