I was just playing around and thinking about a little bit with the details and position of these strange pods on the J-10B.
First of all they seem to be removable … which may explain the very early, clear but slightly psed picture without them.
Then, it seems that they don’t attach to the same station as the large fuel-tank or the inner/middle-wing pylon, which may interfere with both the tank and / or heavy loads … they are mounted IMO right in the middle between both slightly closer to the break of the inverted gull wing (?).
So … what are they ?? I still tend to say they are ECM-pods … but why then on that position so close to the other pylons ?
Maybe telemetry pods only for testing ??? … but IMO we’ve never seem such “telemetry pods” and esp. so huge ones on a Chinese ac before.
Any idea ??
Deino