J-20... The New Generation Fighter

70092 said:

The leaked Pic is highly likely to be the photo of the real thing.

The pic is leaked by a highly trusted source, the source is the first one who leak J-10b's photo.

And on 22/12 there are more than one eye witness of this fighter, some of them are highly-trusted ones, they also confirmed the side-view of the fighters (shape/color etc).

As for the shape of the aircraft, note the light can do wonders and due to the light there is some distortation about the fighter, the real thing looks "thicker" than it is looked like in this pic.

As for the real fighter, the shape of vectical tails looks like the one installed F-117, the fighter looks very flat from the lower end (like F-22), has DSI-like air-intake, arranged in a similiar way as in-between of F-35 and that latest French fighter Raflae or something (sorry, dont bother to find the spelling of it).

The front view of it looks somehow like a F-22, but the side view make it look a little bit like a F-23, of cause, the most important part, the top view is still remained unknown.

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Centrist said:

Hey, I don't see any effort by you to figure out whether it is real or not...

IMO, CONFIRMED PHOTOSHOP

First, the aircraft doesn't appear to be in primer.

Second, the vertical stabilizer has definitely been photoshopped, there is a blurry box surrounding the second half of the plane and as mentioned before, a definite swirl above the vertical stabilizer.

I brought it into PS and enhanced it so you can easily see that the photo was tampered with.

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Lion said:

I saw nothing but trees!

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Centrist said:

No, there is clearly some distortion under high magnification. However, I noticed that this is the case in several areas of the photo, not just near the vertical stabilizer, therefore it is more likely that it is just an illusion due to the poor quality of the photo.

That doesn't mean it is genuine, but there is nothing definitive suggesting that it is fake either.

To 70092: You said witnesses said that the rear of the plane is flat like the F-22, does this imply that the exhausts were flattened out also, like the F-22? (Implying 2D TVC instead of Russian 3D systems).

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challenge said:

last week, WMF blogger report 2 prototype were built no. 2001 and 2002.
but remember this is just prototype, production model may be different.
blogger also report that PLAAF are reluntant to sold J-10B to PAF.

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Centrist said:

No, there is clearly some distortion under high magnification. However, I noticed that this is the case in several areas of the photo, not just near the vertical stabilizer, therefore it is more likely that it is just an illusion due to the poor quality of the photo.

That doesn't mean it is genuine, but there is nothing definitive suggesting that it is fake either.

To 70092: You said witnesses said that the rear of the plane is flat like the F-22, does this imply that the exhausts were flattened out also, like the F-22? (Implying 2D TVC instead of Russian 3D systems).

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no_name said:

It looks narrow. And the colour is not yellow as with most test planes.

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Centrist said:

No, there is clearly some distortion under high magnification. However, I noticed that this is the case in several areas of the photo, not just near the vertical stabilizer, therefore it is more likely that it is just an illusion due to the poor quality of the photo.

That doesn't mean it is genuine, but there is nothing definitive suggesting that it is fake either.

To 70092: You said witnesses said that the rear of the plane is flat like the F-22, does this imply that the exhausts were flattened out also, like the F-22? (Implying 2D TVC instead of Russian 3D systems).

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no_name said:

It looks narrow. And the colour is not yellow as with most test planes.

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