Overview

• Images and a short flight video first posted on Chinese social media in April 2025 gained wider international attention on August 21–22.
• The aircraft features counter-rotating coaxial main rotors with a tail pusher propeller, a layout closely matching Sikorsky’s X2/S-97 architecture.
• Experts Andreas Rupprecht and Rick Joe assess the helicopter as a small-to-medium test platform rather than an operational design.
• Attribution remains unofficial, with analysts suggesting links to AVIC subsidiaries, including Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group for the compound design and Hafei/HAIG for a separate tiltrotor seen days earlier.
• Observers note that real capability will hinge on propulsion, avionics, and flight-control systems, and no specifications or formal confirmations have been released.