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An official report, in addition to J15, KJ600, and J35, specifically mentioned a brand-new carrier-based aircraft, which can be preliminarily inferred to be the GJ-21.

It can be reasonably speculated that the GJ-21 has already been used on the 003 aircraft carrier.
 

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Has anyone tried to assemble an up-to-date list of all known or spotted Chinese drone types?
 
It's a bit difficult; there are just too many kinds. And there are some types we don't even know the names of.
 
I wonder if we could create a naming system using a combination of :
- wing leading edge sweep (lowest leading edge sweep if compound)
- estimated wingspan (approximate)
- date first spotted

Would that be sufficient to differentiate known types usefully?
 
Avimimus said:
Yes. But even that composite image is cut off! Where did you get it?

I recall someone had put together a letter system for the 2025 Victory Day parade - but if obviously left out the other types which we know of.
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Obviously, this was originally a satellite photo from some military website, and later some Chinese netizens made a slightly rough addition to it. Plus, the aircraft types shown here are at most only part of the whole. It's not complete.

This is the original photo, showing the internal models of the base in 2018.
 

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SUPER=BUG said:
Obviously, this was originally a satellite photo from some military website, and later some Chinese netizens made a slightly rough addition to it. Plus, the aircraft types shown here are at most only part of the whole. It's not complete.

This is the original photo, showing the internal models of the base in 2018.
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These additions wer made by me
 
SUPER=BUG said:
A very strange thing, the related video is here.
【卧槽！这又出来个什么新机型？速度好快-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/fX9C2W5
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Obviously can't really tell the mass distribution from this angle, but the centre of lift seems *way* backwards. I'd guess this plane needs crazy amounds of trim just to fly level (which might be worth it for some reason?).
 
Elysium said:
Obviously can't really tell the mass distribution from this angle, but the centre of lift seems *way* backwards. I'd guess this plane needs crazy amounds of trim just to fly level (which might be worth it for some reason?).
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Actually, after a lot of people's guesses, this might be a business jet with a blue tail.
 
I'm really looking forward to seeing the GJ-X refuel the J-36 in the future. Not many people realize that a major role of the GJ-X is to serve as a stealth tanker. This was originally supposed to be the H-20's mission, but it's now been assigned to the so-called GJ-X.
 

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tico said:
I'm really looking forward to seeing the GJ-X refuel the J-36 in the future. Not many people realize that a major role of the GJ-X is to serve as a stealth tanker. This was originally supposed to be the H-20's mission, but it's now been assigned to the so-called GJ-X.
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How do you know that it's a tanker? I thought we didn't have any information about its role?
 
When the satellite images of the GJ-X were captured last year, there were credible leaks from well-informed sources on the Chinese internet，the one that was spotted might not be used as a tanker, but there will definitely be a tanker variant of the GJ-X.

The early H-20 design might have included a tanker role is just my own speculation. The leaks mentioned the existence of two large flying-wing UAVs, suggesting that the H-20 will focus strictly on its primary mission.
 
Tomboy said:
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Seems like WZ-X has a rather unique tapered wing design
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Like a reduced "insert" on the B-2. Somewhere between an original B-2/B-21 and production B-2. Looking at the original B-2 it looks like this design puts the extra structure on the wing where the B-2 stuck it on the fuselage.
 

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Chinese RQ-180.
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Like a reduced "insert" on the B-2. Somewhere between an original B-2/B-21 and production B-2. Looking at the original B-2 it looks like this design puts the extra structure on the wing where the B-2 stuck it on the fuselage.
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See, B-21 was designed way back then but has now evolved.
 
Another image of the WZ-X was posted showing for the first time clearly it’s unique wing geometry with the serrated trailing edge.
 

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