To explain to curious netizens the question of the striking resemblance between the cover of 1979 and 2010.

In 1979, the magazine cover?? The new generation of domestically produced fighter jets, the J-10.

Hahaha, netizens' eyesight is truly amazing. At a glance, you noticed this strange phenomenon. On a magazine cover from 30 years ago, there appears a model that looks very similar to the newly released domestic J-10 fighter jet. What's going on here?

After specifically asking our editor, we learned that the aircraft model in this photo is indeed based on our J-10! In fact, this was a photo of a reader who won an award at an aeromodeling competition and his winning work. The child in the photo, his parents were involved in the design of military aircraft. Somehow, the child probably had the chance to see some of the aircraft design drafts and applied this shape to his competition entry. As a result, after the award-winning photo was published, the National Security Agency immediately found our magazine and warned us that this photo might have leaked state secrets. However, the magazine had already been sent out, and the cover couldn't be changed anymore. From then on, our editorial work had to become more cautious??

It can be said that although the official development of the J-10 started in the 1980s, the early design work had already begun in the late 1970s. Today, as we repost this photo, it certainly no longer has any suspicion of leaking state secrets, hahaha??