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Pre-delivery J10C usually do not carry live missile, they carried red color inert missile or blue color practice missile. White color missiles are live missile. And this is not a new photo.
J-10 Thread IV
- Thread starter Jeff Head
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Well, that was my first thought to, but IMO it is not that easy to dismiss:
1. we have seen other images with plain white inert AAMs before (even if not many)
2. it is clearly a late batch J-10C likely even CE with a WS-10B
... but what does not fit and indeed is suspicious is:
3. why PL-12? we have seen rarely PL-12s lately and IMO only in mock-up form under a CE at Zhuhai!
4. the cn. is strange: all so far known ones had 20x numbers and not 020x
Would be good to know the source of it? @A.Man any info on this?
If it's real I wonder if it may be for an export customer.
Not so rare. In fact it is typical for J-10C to carry one PL-15 and one PL-12. We’ve seen this on planes that participated in the blockade exercises around Taiwan.
My first avatar on the forum was a J-10B. Over the last fifteen years it followed different iterations of J-20 until finally settling on J-36.
Why pick the fat and ugly J-36 when you can settle for the sleek and sexy J-XDS
Because one picks the one that delivers the most brutal and "ugly" extreme long-range, stealth strap-on missile on the enemies a s s.
Wonder if any of this people are still working there.