Mystery aircraft 4th August 2025: CCA vs other

[Deino]

This is how it all started:

Until the mystery of than new "thing" seen yesterday is solved I think we should separate all "what is it" discussion containing a lot of speculations from the regular "Chinese UCAV/CCA/flying wing drones (ISR, A2A, A2G) thread" and continue it here until we know what it is.

I'll start with the transfer of all posts to this new thread and until then I hope you don't mind!


A friend just sent me these two in reply to my CCA post on X:

 

[talonn]

A friend just sent me these two in reply to my CCA post on X:


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what is that? manned jet or CCA? I can't tell.

 

[Deino]

what is that? manned jet or CCA? I can't tell.

Actually I have no idea … my first thought was, it looks almost to big and different to the other seen CCAs.

 

[talonn]

Actually I have no idea … my first thought was, it looks almost to big and different to the other seen CCAs.

Yep. It looks like a manned aircraft. However the shape is definitely new. It doesn't match either J-36 or J-XDS

 

[Blitzo]

Without a clear look at the dorsal fuselage where a cockpit would be, and without having something to scale it with, it's impossible to really discern if it is a manned aircraft or not.

After all, upcoming higher end CCAs/UCAVs will probably end up looking like manned aircraft but just slightly downsized and without cockpits.

 

[bsdnf]

like a mix of J-36 and J-XDS, both design and size

 

[bsdnf]

A friend just sent me these two in reply to my CCA post on X:


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I'm not sure, but it looks like this

 

[7556]

Look like this

 

[bsdnf]

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Oh, I remember sth like this post last time, that one flying with the Y-8/9 ?

 

[GTI]

A friend just sent me these two in reply to my CCA post on X:


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Looks like a lot of main landing gear wheels in this picture tbh.