China's Large Twin Engine CH-6 Armed UAV System Specifications Are Disclosed

zectech · Sep 22, 2021

Make 10K a month and arm most with nuke warheads.

China needs many delivery methods of nukes.

Have them possess heat shielding from lasers. Which is the only thing, other than EW, that could stop swarms of tens of thousands of them sent to nuke China's enemies. Launch them from fields in Manchuria.

Better to pre-program the flight and then go electronic signal silent. Have faraday cages to protect the electronics from emp and other means to stop them.

1M of these would overwhelm sat and air defenses. This could prevent a war, along with other means of nuke delivery.

You launch 1M in 3H, the UAVs without nukes are decoys. Have them have a bomb the same look as those with nukes. Overwhelm the usa system.

Nuke bombs would have to be protected from outside EW disabling too.

Also, I figured out why it is insane to release exact specs. When playing a game the ai was programmed to get their enemy soldiers out of range and your human player soldiers in range. So the ai uses the pre-knowledge of specs to defeat you. Simply have ai know the exact specs and then have ai win the battle by staying out of range. Never reveal exact specs.

Daniel808 · Sep 23, 2021

This bad4ss coming to Zhuhai Airshow 2021 :smokin:

Given its configuration, it is possible that it is a direct competitor of CASIC's WJ-700 UCAV, and AVIC's Wing Loong 10 UCAV

https://twitter.com/x/status/1441084954046255104

Daniel808 · Sep 23, 2021

WZ-8 Hypersonic Surveillance Drone from China's Air Force also coming to Zhuhai Airshow 2021

https://twitter.com/x/status/1440983367445483527

Analysis regarding WZ-8 Hypersonic Surveillance Drone & its capability
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/a...lance-drone-is-very-bad-news-for-the-u-s-navy

beijingwalker · Sep 24, 2021

China's New Large Twin Engine CH-6 Armed UAV To Appear At Airshow, takeoff weight of 7.8 tons
September 13, 2021

China will display the CH-6 (Caihong-6 or Rainbow-6) large twin-engine UAV system for the first time on the Zhuhai Airshow to be held from September 28 to October 3, and its official specifications are disclosed.

The “Intelligent Airshow App” announced today that the China Aerospace Aerodynamic Technology Research Institute will exhibit the CH-6 large twin-engine unmanned aircraft system.

According to the introduction, CH-6 is a large, high-altitude, high-speed, long-endurance, multi-purpose unmanned aircraft system. It adopts a conventional large span-to-string ratio aerodynamic layout, with the outstanding advantages of high flight altitude, strong load capacity, long endurance and long range, high system reliability and load scalability.

CH-6 UAV of China is suitable for high-altitude reconnaissance and strike, maritime anti-submarine and patrol and vigilance, long-range early warning and detection, close air support and other combat missions, while effectively realizing manned/unmanned coordinated operations in the future combat environment, accelerating the promotion of information technology and intelligent combat.

CH-6 UAV has the outstanding advantages of high flight height and fast flight speed, which can effectively avoid the threat of ground anti-aircraft fire, and has strong system survivability, and can perform reconnaissance and surveillance, tracking and striking missions for a long time without interruption under weak confrontation conditions or in a certain confrontation intensity war.

As one of China’s largest UAVs in terms of takeoff weight, the CH-6 armed UAV also has the capability to mount a variety of loads such as electro-optical, SAR, early warning radar, electronic reconnaissance, air-to-ground missiles, air-to-ground bombs, anti-radiation missiles, small and medium-sized cruise bombs, etc. At the same time, due to its turbofan engine and long endurance, it can be used as an aerial long-duration stationary platform to perform a variety of military and civilian missions.

The CH-6 UAV’s parameters include maximum takeoff weight of 7.8 tons, maximum load capacity of 300 kg (reconnaissance type) or 2 tons (reconnaissance-attack type), fuel capacity of 3.42 tons (reconnaissance type) or 1.72 tons (reconnaissance-attack type), overall length of 15 meters, wingspan of 20.5 meters, height of 5 meters, maximum level flight speed of 800 km/h, cruise speed of 500 km/h to 700 km/h, cruise altitude of 10 km, ceiling of 12 km, a maximum endurance of 20 hours (reconnaissance type) or 8 hours (reconnaissance-attack type), a maximum range of 12,000 km (reconnaissance type) or 4,500 km (reconnaissance-attack type), a maximum climb rate of 20 m/s, and an operating radius (apparent) of 300 km.

In addition, information on the CH-4 medium-altitude, long-endurance UAV was also disclosed, stating that since its operational use overseas, the aircraft has conducted thousands of combat sorties and over tens of thousands of hours of combat flying, firing about 1,000 rounds of airborne weapons and achieving a 96 percent hit rate.

The CH-4 armed UAV’s main technical specifications include a wingspan of 18 meters, a usage altitude of 3 km to 5 km, a lift limit of 7.2 km, a maximum endurance of 30 hours, a maximum flight speed of 230 km/h, a cruise speed of 150 km/h to 180 km/h, a maximum takeoff weight of 1.33 tons and any load weight of 345 kg.

China’s CH-6 armed UAV specifications disclosed

China will display the CH-6 (Caihong-6 or Rainbow-6) large twin-engine UAV system for the first time on the Zhuhai Airshow to be held from September 28 to October 3, and its official specifications are disclosed. The "Intelligent Airshow App" announced today that the China Aerospace Aerodynamic...

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