A Pakistani news report called the J-10C “semi-stealth” and said they will sport “tactical camouflage patterns resembling those used by Mirage-5PA.”

“The most recent J-10Cs, according to specifics, have sky-blue undersides and a green-grey camouflage pattern. Similar in color, Mirage 5PAs have been employed in low-level maritime strike operations. It means that low-level maritime strike roles will also be utilized with the new J-10C aircraft,” the report said.

The J-10Cs will have a role like the Maritime Strike variant of India’s Jaguar deep-penetration strike aircraft (DPSA), which also sport a navy blue-sky blue paint scheme.

They also have a pointed nose cone in place of the slant (or a cut) on the nose of the ground attack version used by the IAF. The first batch of J-10Cs manufactured by the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC) had low visibility gray color scheme.

However, certain Chinese military aviation observers are given to understand the J-10CE with the new scheme might be just a single jet requested by a senior fighter pilot who had previously flown Mirages for ceremonial purposes.

According to recent images doing rounds on social media, Pakistan’s Chinese-origin J-10C fighter jets have been photographed in a camouflage/paint scheme similar to its French-made Mirage V jets.

The J-10Cs are Generation 4.5 fighters, inducted into the PAF on March 11 this year, during the Imran Khan government, which the former cricketer touted as a weapon that could “defeat any threat.”

The J-10Cs – also referred to as the J-10CE – are now the PAF’s most advanced platform, considered a counter to India’s Dassault Rafale. It will join other PAF platforms like the JF-17 Block 3 (another China-origin jet) and F-16.

It sports advanced avionics, a Missile Approach Warning System (MAWS), Radar Warning Receiver (RWR), and possibly a Laser Warning Detector (LWD). A defining feature is an Infrared Search and Track (IRST) and an Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar.

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