I’m personally not yet convinced that this new missile is called PL-15, because previously the “old” PL-15 was said to have been tested on J-20 and J-10B/C as well as on J-16.

For the moment I’m calling this thing the “new” PL-15/PL-XX while the previous missile is “old” PL-15/crop variant PL-12.

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and screenshots of a couple of potentially relevant studies, from a little while back… note the third picture in particular:

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Yeah, it is a very big missile. Definitely not going to fit inside the J-20. So probably a long-ranged “AWACS killer” and maybe an anti-tanker role as well.

Deino (thanks) just stuck in Facebook a few images of a J-16 with a pair of HUGE AAM´s(?)

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AAM?
ASAT?
ARM?

Any idea?

PL-15 AAM – http://chinese-military-aviation.blogspot.com/p/missiles-iii.html#PL-15

http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/china-j20-stealth-fighter-rafale-indian-air-force-3737350/

INDIAN AIR MARSHAL says J-20 not so stealthy, Rafale more stealthy!

Damn, the J-20 is doomed :apologetic:

The part where they could track the Virginia SSN and very capable SSK from NATO is interesting

Totally Agreed!

It seems the longer one is the EM cat and recent test of J-15T launch had occurred on the EM cat.

Didn’t realize how similar to Project 1143.5 the new carrier is shaping up:

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No surprises there TR1. The class designation givne is Type 001A while Liaoning CV16 was Type 001. Internally there maybe no change from the 001. The only visible changes are to the island. It is about 10m shorter than 001 possibly allowing more planes to be on the deck along with the newer AESA and few other change. But overall it is pretty much the same. The Type-002 class will do away with the ski-jump. Test systems for both steam and EM cats are about to begin. There are newer satellite images of the cat facility. A J-15T was rumored to have been successfully launched from the EM test cat. Deino uploaded a few satellite photos of the facility recently.

lookalika

[img*]http://raredelights.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/The-Blobfish.jpg%5B/img]

LOL! I was thinking more like this,

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