half of chinese forum boards got jammed up and only microblogs are working.

tomorrow guys… tomorrow.

This thing better fly soon with the country so worked up.

But with official pictures with Hu being taken that’s almost a certainty (unless the guy is just an actor and those are props.)

You don’t put the Premier in a picture next to a project with any chance of failure.

first flight pilots lined up to shake hands with “the boss”.
8 of them 😮

speculation:
2 each in 2 twin seat J-10S and 1x K-8, that leaves 2 pilots for…j–20.

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Hey, the Yahoo Tieba guy who posted this post onto Tieba.
I AM ONLY SPECULATING, no basis for this speculation.

There are two J-10 two-seaters? I thought the previous pictures only showed the K-8 as the chase plane?

Thanks for the minute by minute reporting!

Also from CMF, a comparison of the size of the J-20 in relation to the J-10 and the ubiquitous JAC light truck.

By this gauge this thing is about flanker size if not smaller.

A ? Though question persist & will do so for time to come, i think right NOW most would agree that there is SOME/MORE substance to china’s 5G fighter project than-lets say-before the release of these pics. But my question is not about that substance. Rather what is the chinese motivation?
Any theories?:-)

It could be as simple as a changing and (explosively) wealthier society becoming ever more armed with cellphones and digital cameras that can take pictures and upload them on the internet.

It was far easier to keep things quiet in a poorer society when it wasn’t the world’s largest internet population.

It’s probably impossible to control 400 million internet users.

The release of these pics & their pace is mind boggling-surely they could have kept it under wraps-when compared with other defence projects. So what’s different this time?

Maybe they couldn’t keep it under wraps. Why assume that it could? We saw fuzzy pictures of J-10s from Chengdu in the 1990s and that was way before the explosion of the internet in China. Now, it could simply be the impossibility of keeping every one of hundreds of millions internet users from uploading pictures.

That said, all these pictures (and the J-10 ones before) were released in the Chinese language web world which is for all intent and purposes disconnected from the English speaking one we reside in on AFM. Every picture in this thread depended on a Chinese speaker transferring it from the Chinese world to the English one.

So if there was a purpose behind it, it was a message to the Chinese people first. Maybe it’s a nationalistic thing. But nationalism would be far better served by an official announcement.

Maybe the J-20 is already old news just like the J-10 was and the J-15 after that because more classified projects are proceeding in secrecy in a desert in the Northwest somewhere.

But the simplest explanation is that Chengdu is a major metropolitan area with seven million people in a fast changing society that is wired with broadband with digital cameras and cellphones everywhere. And CAC is smack in the middle of that.

CF-SF-XF-Nanchang-Guiyang.
with the last two holding on to older programs/derivatives. but have their sights on UAVs.

Nanchang is now Hongdu. It was traditionally one of the most innovative Chinese design/manufacturing houses. Usually low funded projects that turned out pretty well.

Their line of products — CJ6, Q-5 and K-8 — actually have a pretty good reputation in relation to funding.

This two are different for sure I think. May be the 1st one is an attemp by China co create flying F-22 drones for their air defenses to shoot down 😀

The first picture is fake. It is obviously a F-22 and looks nothing like the other pictures. I have no idea why this new poster decides to post a F-22 in this thread as his first post.

Judging from the blue maintenance truck in front of it and the personnel standing behind it, it’s not unduly large. In fact, I would say it is no bigger than a Flanker.

Enlarged views of previous pictures side by side: