Can anyone please translate that text regarding these two Chinese STOL concepts ?????

Thanks in advance, Deino 😉

Well I dont need to admit anything as I am sure Iranian pilots know more than me and you about that aircraft,.

If they write everywhere it has modified RD33 motors then it have.

Hmmm I think I would be more carefully. Even as surely most of us here don’t know all about the Iranian activities, such a claim is pure nonsense … and only because they write it, doesn’t mean that it’s true !

Just an example: the US tried the same with one RD-33-calls engine with the F-5 airframe which resulted in the F-20 !! Maybe a redesigned Iranian Tiger with one RD-33 would be possible …. but two surely not !

Anyway Thanks for posting these superb pictures,

Deino

No, it isn’t.

Hmmm … Thanks for posting but I have that strange feeling that both aircraft are different (or at least the colour scheme has been changed) … and second: for what purpose does this “civil” Y-8 has this sting ???

Cheers, Deino :confused:

Okay lets speculate then>

Hu, very much speculative !!

Here not: Very fine picture of the Y-8 with the disk !

From what I heard, that fantan is apparently called Q-5B, possibly a prototype navalized variant. I have nothing of the sort to back it up, however…

No, that “B” varaiant was originally intented to be radar + torpedo equipped, and a rqised cockpit, it flew for the first time during (unsure) late 80’s – 90’s … and there are even two pictures of a machine with “81xxx” numbers and from the unpainted prototype.

Additional there are different reports for a second “B” version with a very strange nose …. :confused:

But this “144” machine is new to me !

Cheers, Deino

… finally the first picture of a J-10 since how many weeks ???? :diablo:

Any idea about that number as the 1003 was an old or eraly prototype with the darker scheme ! … two possibilities:

1. this is the old 1003 repainted in lighter colours … (judging from the antenna on the spine this is the most likely option for me)

2 or this is from another batch with olso the no. 1003

Hmmm :confused: … :confused: !

Cheers, Deino

MiG and Mukhamedovs….Well I ment that the Shafaqh was the one looking similar as the I-2000…just trying to get my facts right about these Iraninan planes…

That’s exactly the point (or better to say the problem :diablo: !) as there was never a I-2000.

Cheers, Deino 😉