Shenyang FC-31 / J-31 Fighter Demonstrator
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SinoSoldier
Colonel
The other two illustrations he included in his post suggest that he thinks that this is the J-35.
SinoSoldier
Colonel
What is meant by "has been set"?
SteelBird
Colonel
I guess he meant "has been seen"
This 谢艺航 guy is that famous wall climber in Shenyang so I don't think it's photoshopped... But whether this is the new one is left for debate.
Besides the removal of the pitot, there's also coating on the canopy (2.0 doesn't have it)...
I'm actually leaning towards this is the new one right now... J20 first put coating on the canopy since #2017 and I don't think the older one added the coating later.
Since the pitot has been removed and the coating on the canopy... I guess the external design is basically done so they are going full stealth mode on this one.
No offense, but whether is guy is a famous wall climber or not doesn't increase any credibility on if this is a PS photo. A lot of these people have a history of releasing PSed photos before.
Let's say this, there are a lot of places in China, cjdby, weibo, and etc., have a very strong tendency of being a fanboy site. Due to some well-known issues, those fanboys like to believe things came out from certain things from certain people, who pretend they know stuff without asking for any shreds of evidence.
Especially on the matter of CAS and 2nd Chinese stealth fighter, there's even conspiracy theory linking these behaviors (hyper FC-31, trash J-20, release rumor on PLA demands on FC-31 every now than then) to CAS stock price and people wish it to be the next JL-9. So until something really concrete comes out, let's just be cool with it, this drama has played for 8 years whatsoever.