Either the Chinese military is learning something from Maskirovka, the fictitious Intelligence service of the similarly fictitious House Liao / Capellan Confederation in the Battletech universe, or the WZ-10 has several prototypes or several different versions.

Here are more pics of gunships, all allegedly, the WZ-10 [武直－10].

Note, I am NOT calling them outright fakes. I suspect there is a WZ-10 in the making. But I have gone through several sites in Google and Baidu using the keyword ‘WZ-10’ to search and I am getting so many photos of gunships looking different from one another that I must question which of these pictures are real.

Below: The one on the left looks very convincing. The one on the right, well, looks like an artist impression using the copy function of Adobe Photoshop. Just look at the blade positions. Too unison. And look at the tail rotor… erm.. what tail rotor?

Some pics of the WZ-10 have been circulated on the Internet, even on the Sinodefence site. But the pics are either too small or too distorted to make out if it’s real or just another Adobe Photoshop hoax.

I have downloaded the pics and am posting them here. Take a look at them.

And this is what I found on a forum. I didn’t really read what was posted there but it suggests that the pics are fakes. Adding to the number of artist impressions and fakes in circulation on the net, I am not surprised if these are fakes anyway. But I’ll leave it for you to judge.