Aerial pictures of the J-10 posted by OverLordUSA at CMF.

Have You noticed that the PL-8 are missing, which are usually fitted to serial machines !!!!! 😉

Deino

Wow! J10s in a queue … 😮

Thanks a lot for posting …. would be interesting how recent this picture is !?!

Cheers, Deino 😉

A swing-wing Q-5? Now that would be interesting.

On that picture of the huge targeting pod is that even fitted under a Q-5? It looks like a J-7 or a larger J-8 to me for some reason……

It’s under a JJ-7 … but as huitong writes in his description and by comparing the small and grainy Q-5E/F-picture with this huge “pod” I thought there are some similarities !

What do You think ???

Deino

🙂 j1o with sd10

Just one question regarding the ongoing discussion on later or earlier aircraft, prototypes, pre-serial and serial machines and their differences !

I always thought that the later production machines can be distinguished from their earlier cousins’ esp. by their 3-part gear door arrangement. For that particular bird “1013” we assume it as a pre-production machine and we know many pictures of it with the older two-door arrangement.

Then there appeared that strange PL-12 equipped J-10A picture with the typical light grey-blue grey older camouflage with the latest doors but its numbers erased !

Here on this picture it seems that our old friend no. 1013 now has the new doors re-fitted !!!

Any comments ???

Deino

I just had an idea regarding the latest Q-5E & Q-5F versions ….

The development of the new Q-5E/F variants finally fulfilled PLAAF’s requirement to deliver PGMs (mainly LGBs). The exact status of this project is unknown even though prototypes have been seen flying. Due to the limited payload the aircraft can deliver, a typical CAS mission is accomplished by both variants: at least one Q-5F carrying a FLIR/LT pod either semi-recessed into or underneath its belly and several Q-5Es each carrying two LS-500J 500kg LGBs (comparable to American PAVEWAY I) under its wings. A small fairing is seen underneath the nose which may house an ALR-1 laser rangefinder to achieve better bombing accuracy. It was speculated that Q-5E/F can also carry anti-radiation missiles as well for SEAD missions.

Source: http://mil.jschina.com.cn/huitong/q-5_jh-7_h-6.htm

I was then checking huitong’s site again where this larger picture of a landing machine is posted and below its belly it looks realy like a huge “FLIR/LT pod” … then I remembered this “pod” being tested under a JJ-7 and I always asked why such a huge pod under such a small plane …. maybe it’s a combined fuel-sensor pack which fills the “old” weapons bay ???

What do You think !!!??? :confused:

Cheers, Deino 😀

Two-seater Mirage 4000? I have something for you!
Once upon a time in Internet was “the whatif modeler forum”. (Don’t try to find that on google, it had been hacked recently by a ******* bull**** , so virus will infect your computer.)
I registered on this forum and meet a nice guy name Pollux Delta Seven. We talk a bit about Mirage 4000 and this guy had made profile of a two seater Mirage 4000.
This is the two seat nuclear strike Mirage 4000 by Pollux Delta Seven…

It’s once again online !!!! …. But I always expected a Mirage-4000 twin-seater to have a more F-15B/D-like canopy !

Cheers, Deino 😀

Besides that one additional thing makes me wonder: From Eurofighter we see in regular steps new pictures from new units … from France = nothing !!??? :confused:

Can anyone tell, what’s the production rate for the Rafale (I know it’s much lower than for the EF !), but so far I have only seen one small picture of a Rafale-B or -C in service !

Thanks, Deino 🙂

… once again from Topgunchen ????