The triangle base frame looks similar. But that's all I can say. Still need better picture.
It's definitely not J-XDS
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It's definitely not J-XDS
I’ve seen some speculation by Chinese netizens that the wingtip could have some omni-directional movement. Potentially using some kind of double universal jointed hinge. Just some speculation of course but because it hasn’t been discussed here yet I just wanted to share.
Right off the bat we don’t know if it is a double seater…
Cockpit should be further back. Use the position of the nose landing gear and intakes as a guide.
I'm not sure the top profile is correct, it could potentially be alot flatter on top of the aircraft and not YF-23 style big engine nacelle.
YF-23 only had huge engine nacelles due to the fact that the original ATF specs required short field capability so they had to install thrust reversers which made the nacelles massive. The real production F-23 would've gotten much smaller nacelles due to the airforce cancelling the short field landing requirements. I would expect J-XDS to have something that is either similar to the real production F-23 or even fully flush engines like F-22.
It was made by @银杏叶文创工作室. Link: ,
He also made two size estimation of the bottom view based on the engine dimensions.
The red area serves as a dimensional reference for the J-20's main IWB and side IWB.
Just FYI: I'm fairly certain that the engine models he labeled are not meant to be taken literally as those specific types, but rather as size references for medium-thrust engines (WS-13, WS-21, WS-19) and large-thrust engines (WS-10, WS-15).
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