Chengdu next gen combat aircraft (?J-36)
- Thread starter Blitzo
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I have absolutely nothing to this beyond speculation. But we really don't know the full capabilities of these aircraft and whether they are always or optionally manned. But optionally manned is what I would expect out of any major platform being developed right now. And, if the latter, I would expect that you would see a manned aircraft flying in close proximity to an unmanned one to compare their flight characteristics....
You don’t need to fly right next to optionally manned aircraft. In fact you can fly dozens of kilometers away. They are not remote controlled planes.
That is almost certain thing going on. When looking for things regarding the "mini nuk sub"/XX1HQT program, I came across this tender from 2022. It said that the work is to produce documentary of the final type certification in 2025. It seems to me that recording video and audio through out the development process and produce a documentary is an integral part of PLA R&D.
How are you able to access this website? Pretty sure it’s been blocking foreign ips since 2021. Did you VPN your way in?
Maybe it is only US IP being blocked?
Maybe. I don’t know why they bother when 95 percent of “China experts” don’t even understand the language.
They can just use google translate or LLM to translate and interpret. I support their IP blocking.
That sure sounds cool as hell to me. Someone should start a flagship thread here about this program.