Z-21/Z-X heavy attack helicopter

Deino

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Latest image. It looks like the temporary frame structure has been removed from the nose.

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Seems as if testing is progressing nicely and also it looks not the be the first prototype! The final looks almost like a 2 or even 3.
 

Deino

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How can you tell this is a different prototype airframe?


Sorry for the unclear reply ... my point is, that I find it surprising to remove this instrumental boom so soon, if maiden flight was actually done only in December last year. Even more - and YES; I admit I'm a numbers nerd and these are too blurry - usually we would expect a number in the range of XX0001 or at least a "1" as the final digit. Here however it looks not like a "1" but more like at least a different number, so maybe this is not the first but already an additional prototype?!

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Nx4eu

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Excuse my subjective opinion, but I just think that this helicopter just looks horrible and I don’t understand what’s it’s role and the dire need for the PLA to develop an ‘old’ heavy attack helicopter. Sometimes I curse at the PLA procurement process to being way to cautious in its approach.
 
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