I said 'possibly' - the elongated dark region could mean that it's the larger canopy of the J-20S, but as you said, the image resolution is too poor to be certain.
J-20 5th Gen Fighter Thread VIII
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Is there a photo of the west apron?
Fresh J-20A(s) with WS-15 engines. Posted by @QWERTY1582 on Weibo.
The first pic is old IIRC. Second one is new though.
All the J-20’s aesthetic nitpicks are completely solved on the J-20A lol.
Some people are still gonna complain about ventral strakes, but they serve an important purpose maintaining stability at high AOA because of how small the all-moving slabs are.
I'm going to be cultured and complain about the nosegear wheel being single door, creating a protruding unaesthetic profile from the side, versus a more aesthetic dual door design, tsk tsk.
Looks like nozzle positions are at different settings in the second image, perhaps getting some testing done.
...that's just what happens with twin engine fighters when they're landing.
That makes more sense. Probably wouldn't be doing that kind of testing at the altitudes where this kind of photograph could happen now that I think about it.