However, they look unusually long to be just pylons. It may just be because of the blur/pixelation but i think i see radomes on those stores. So AAMs? PL-16?
J-20 5th Gen Fighter Thread VIII
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Without better pictures, I think it's really not worth speculating too much. The quality of the imagery is such that it could be a pylon (existing or new), or an AAM (finless PL-15, or a new AAM, though it seems a bit small for a PL-17 as one thing that can be clearly delineated is its length and diameter, which is a fair bit smaller than what we'd expect for PL-17).
In short, unless someone credible makes a remark about what it is, I wouldn't fuss too much over it imo.
but the radome is clearly not the J-20A‘s wider beak-like shape.
Actually, it might be? I thought it looked flatter. Plus the quality is probably messing with the geometry a bit.
From the ventral angle I think it is rather difficult to differentiate the J-20 nose versus the J-20A nose. In fact I'm not even sure if the radome width is that much different between them, if anything it is the minute geometry of the tip, best viewed from the side angle.
That said, my personal saying goes -- if a picture is of insufficient quality and one is deliberating the "more advanced" versus "less advanced" options for what it may be, we are obliged to treat it as if it is the "less advanced" option unless there are credible individuals that state otherwise.
So the WS-15 has exceeded its initial design specifications? And to a substantial degree?
manqiangrexue
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Yes, this known as the reason for which it took so long. The enhanced performance of the WS-10X advanced engines made the original design specs of the WS-15 redundant, so it needed to undergo redesign to emerge as a truly superior engine.
There are some videos on Tiktok and videos taken from Douyin, that over the Bohai Sea 1-2 F-35 were shot down at the 30th of May from the J-20. Is the news true or fake. These airplane came from the Japanese airbase. In the comment section said the news were published from the ministry of national defense, but I can't find anything.
Obviously, it's extremely fake.
That bolded phrase should've been a very huge red flag from the get-go.
The skies above the entirety of Bohai is very much Chinese territorial airspace. So if there were indeed Japanese F-35s getting downed over Bohai, then we would already be having a major diplomatic incident between Beijing and Tokyo right now, let alone between the militaries of both countries.
We don't need to wait for two days for such kind of news to "leak" out.
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