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Just curious, but how do you distinguish between PL-15 and PL-15E?

The target engine should be a WS-15 class.

Agree with most of the part but I suppose Turkey won't allow China or Russia to involve in the program and China don't have a suitable engine on shelf for such a heavy fighter itself as well. Speaking of Tejas, I suppose it is an inappropriate comparison since India has a maturer aviation...

Some mentioned an Indian source of the incident and the defector is a Hong Kong citizen. Could anyone colabrate?

No, not really. If the first module appeared more than a year ago, then the ship would be close to complete by now.

That's the 6th 071 and yes, the satellite image was taken more than a year ago.

The article is wrong from the first sentence. В России начались испытания гиперзвуковых крылатых ракет "Циркон" https://ria.ru/20160317/1391446801.html

It is the stock analysis of AAPC.

Congrats!

I did count those in. The image is still too small and blurry for us to make that decision.

Thank you. I believe it is an overlapping of two missiles.

It will be easier if you could repost the image.

I suppose you might have misread something.

I suppose we have to be patient since LHD is not the first priority to PLAN. It should also be taken in consider that small blocks will be hard to recognize until they are laid down and assembled. To be optimistic, we may have a peep at the first 075 a year later.

From someone who claimed the 7th 071 to be "20,000t 075"?

That's right. It'a CAD image of F-22's weapon bay.

Henri is right about the rocket/ramjet hybrid engine. HQ-8 is a two-stage missile with the hybrid engine as the second stage. The solid rocket in the hybrid engine of HQ-8 needs to work during almost the whole flight of the missile, which is different from the one in the integral rocket/ramjet...

HQ-8 does exist and was developed by the Second Research Institute of CASIC, while the WS family is developed by the Seventh Research Institute of CASC.

No. They are products of different companies. BTW, both "HQ-8" rumor and 1000km/Ma10 "YJ-XX" rumor brought up above came from the same source.

It is not SAM but a member of our old friend -- the famous Weishi family.