Hui Tong has an update:

Very nice picture … sadly the number on the tail is too small to identify the unit.

Besides that there seems to be a different antenna-fit on the back-spine (I think I remember this one on an earlier bird at the CFTE) !

Cheers, Deino

Just got a note ….

Apparently there were some problems with what was going to be the Focus Aircraft feature for issue 25 (= MiG-25) :(, so the JH-7 article has been moved up. 😀
As a result most of the next issue has to be re-done and that means, of course, that Vol 25 won’t be out for some time yet!

Cheers, Deino

What PL-11s? They’re not carrying PL-11s, they’re carrying fake PL-8s for wing ballast.

The planes, with their camouflage patterns, belong to the earlier types and I guess had this sand colored painted over their usual blues. I’m trying to ascertain if the color change is done digitally or this is a real paint over. J-10s with camouflage patterns belong to the FTTC unit, which did many of the operational testing and training, and probably works as an Aggressor unit as well given that the FTTC is home to the PLAAF’s Aggressor units.

SOC was referring to the last two links in Hyperwarp’s post … not on the shown J-10.

Regarding the sand-camo … I’m nearly 100% for sure that these are done by PS, esp in the rear area where the PLAAF-symbol is, it looks quite strange.

I will have to look on my harddrive these pictures look very much familiar …

Deino

I don’t know if this has been posted before ?!

Looks like a huge dispenser or PGM ??? :confused:

Deino

That picture looks PSed, or at the very least, was cropped in a way to try and make it look like it was the J10 that dropped the flares when in fact it was something else. The scale is all wrong, and so is the position of the flares compared to the fighter.

Fact of the matter is that we just won’t know for sure where the flares are kept until we see a picture of them emerging from a fighter, or if there is an offical cut-away diagram that marks its location. Since niether of these things have happened yet, to the best of my knowledge, the answer to your question on the location of the flare dispensers is: Your guess is as good as mine.

You are right, that picture is a photoshoped fake from a J-10 + the flares fired by a Su-27.

But maybe this picture could help … it looks as the flare-dispensers are located under the PLAAF symbol ….

Cheers, Deino

It would help if you could upload the text instead of just the aircraft images.

From the few lines available, it seems to suggest this is a follow on to the original J-9 project. The J-9 was a canard delta interceptor canceled after its design specs were unrealistically inflated from a F-4 rival to a MiG-25 rival. Perhaps this concept was floated in an attempt to meet the later design requirements.

The use of framed canopy windshield and wing fencing suggest this is an older concept.

Sorry, but I didn’t find more … somewhere at http://military.china.com/
Hopefully someone else have the whole text.

Otherwise Your translation would fit to the rumoured J-10 from Shenyang.

Cheers, Deino

ie. “lots of pretty pictures for uneducated investors to look at” :diablo:

… but very nice ones !!! :diablo:

http://www.stavatti.com/MILITARY_AEROSPACE.html

Have You seen the SM-72 TACTICAL TRANSPORT/SM-73 ASW/MMA

Deino 😀