Thursday, July 23, 2020

The US Marines Have Their Own Mockup Of A Chinese J-20 Fighter Jet

A Google Earth image of MCALF Bogue shows the J-20 mock-up. The Aviationist via Google Earth

Business Insider/The Aviationist: Satellite Image shows mockup of a Chinese J-20 fighter jet at a Marine Corps airfield in North Carolina

* We have found where the US Marine Corps put its J-20 training mock-up we first spotted in December 2018.
* It's pretty common for the US military to use realistic rival aircraft for training purposes or even for realistic aggressive opposing-forces training.

In December 2018, we were the first to report about a somehow weird sighting: a Chengdu J-20 Mighty Dragon at an airport in Georgia, US. We were also sent some images that indeed showed a J-20 replica and we geo-located the photographs as being taken in front of the USAF Air Dominance Center at the Savannah-Hilton Head International Airport, where the US Air Force and Air Force Reserve operate a number of aircraft.

A few days later, we also got the confirmation from the Col. Emmanuel Haldopoulos, commander of the Savannah Air Dominance Center, that the aircraft, was "a full scale replica and remained at the Air Dominance Center for a short period during the week of 4-6 Dec [2018]. The USMC is funding and directing the training objectives of this device […] wrote us.

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Update: China's J-20 Stealth Fighter: New Pictures Just Dropped (National Interest)

WNU Editor: Can't tell much from the above satellite picture. But it does look like a good replica.

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