Seems to be powered by three engines (extra intake on the top of the fuselage)
Having a hunch, it might the new stealth attack/tactical bomber … and a J-20S was its chase-plane.
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Another 6th generation prototype from SAC. (so they have two 6th gen protoype jets!)
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CAC‘s 6th generation prototype/demonstrator seen standing on the runway
https://x.com/RupprechtDeino/status/1872260375607205925
Spoiler
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Why are the landing gears out during flight, is that how they designed it?
There is always the next year on the horizon.
Its normal for test flight
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The landing gear is often down for a new jet’s first flight
See T-50, KF-21, J-20, TAI TF Kaan, B-21 first flight photos.
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Jesus, slow down China! Stop speedrunning the tech-tree! XD
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idk y but 6th gen designs are so ugly lmao
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I prefer the SAC’s design shape over the CAC’s.
But that’s just from the blurry belly photos … opinion might change when more clearer & up-close images surface.
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Just because it’s large and looks stealthy doesn’t automatically make it a 6th gen fighter, if I had to guess it’s a wingman drone like the nEUROn.
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I have a hunch, its a big optionally manned airframe.
The cockpit glass structure lacks the usual “transparency” … but that’s from the blurry photos.
This looks a lot of the nEUROn’s air intake, the edges come around to contour and make shadows, which could be mistaken as a cockpit. That’s just my theory though.
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Why would it have 2 air intakes on the top? There is already an air intake so theres no point of putting another one in front of it. So I dont think that part is an air intake.
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The rare Type-74 105mm SPH.
An even rarer video surfaced demonstrating its rapid-fire capability, of firing shells every 4~5 seconds.
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If it does have 3 engines it may use the 2 underside intakes for engines that power supersonic flight and the top ones for engines that power subsonic flight.
That would be needlessly complicated though. The whole design seems a little over engineered imo.
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dosent look to bad , but i really hate 3 engine fighter planes , 2 max is my limit
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M116 Husky Davy Crockett Carrier
But instead of firing the 280mm M388 nuclear round (duh) in WT … it can fire the 280mm M390 non-nuclear round, which had 7.3kg(!) of Comp B HE … i.e more boom than KV-2’s HE round.
It can act as tracked open-top HE-slinging TD. Like Ho-Ro and at around 1.3~1.7 BR
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why settle for non-nuclear lol
well … you gotta survive as well and not get blown away from your own launched round
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