The Japanese F-2 still used a lot F-16 parts directly. The Cheetah and the Kfir is still based on the Mirage III airframe directly. So was the Pantera. The Q-5 Fantan is still the MiG-19 behind the cockpit all the way to the tail. Mostly unchanged. Different specifications does not change anything.
Your argument just went completely flat. Easy and logical? Guess again, they only serve to make you wrong again.
Why would the Chinese modify a design that works right? Yes, the design did work right, well enough to be seriously considered for operational use until superceded by more advanced specifications. The PL-8 which was a copy of the Python 3, remained virtually a copy. The PL-4/6/10/11 all remained virtual copies of the Sparrow and Aspide.
The Chinese are smart. They would not change a design that isn’t BROKEN.
Your reasoning is completely foolish. Like everything you have shown and acted on these forums.
Look at the J-7E. That’s the MiG-21 adapted to the Chinese own use. Did it have a significant fuselage change? NO. The fuselage is still the MiG-21F. They changed the wing, the electronics and the engine. But the fuselage is still directly the MiG-21F.
Look at the FTC-2000 trainer. Behind the cockpit and the wings, you can still see it’s still a MiG-21.
You cannot distinguish what is truly a copy and what is indigenous. It’s all because of your pride and obsessession wanting to connect the Russian projects to the J-8, when all the evidence, circumstances and logic says otherwise.
YOU ARE ONLY INTERESTED ON YOUR OWN MYTH MAKING.
I will say i gave you links i did not make them or invented them, The J-8 has Russian engines, if the report is right the airframe was based in the Ye-152 data and in J-7, and the aft fuselage in the J-8 is quit similar to the Ye-152, what you forget to mention is the fact that the Q-5 the Chinese built under license the whole aircraft and the Ye-152 they only got the data and that is the difference.
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