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During the test carried out on Thursday, March 16, the National Combat Aircraft started its own engines and took to the runway. Moving and advancing on the runway with its own engines for a while, the National Combat Aircraft successfully completed its first taxi test.
Already has optical sensors installed too, that’s really far ahead progress wise.
I would be surprised if it isn't a dummy/placeholder of the real thing.
Still, the basic shaping is mature.
I wonder if the rudders will be clipped in further iterations, like the J-20 and J-35.
Is the prototype carrying a nose pitot? I’m asking because it looks like it has one on the side of the nose but appears to have been blurred out.
I dunno, the image quality is too poor for me.