J-10 early model

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 04-12-02 AT 05:15 AM (GMT)]
I found this picture months ago in one of the Chinese language forums and I have long kept it (and forgotten about it) in my hard drive ever since. I didn’t post it months ago because the pics is over 81K when the forum used to have a pic max of 75k (now it’s 100k).

I don’t know what it is really if this is some toy or a modeller’s idea of the J-10 before the pics came out. Or a genuine model mockup. It has a smaller, sharper nose, fixed intake, thinner tail and a more Lavi like appearance. The proportion between the intake and the engine nozzle seems unrealistic though. If it’s just a toy model before the actual pics came out, it certainly got the wings and the canards just about right nearly the same as the final versions, disputing the Lavi wing plan form (where the canard sweep would actually end over the front edge of the delta), or the US Intelligence planform shown in FAS with the double delta approach.

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