Chinese UAV News & Discussions (Strictly)

cirr · Sep 12, 2018

Export licences granted to RuiYing（SharpHawk）FX series of drones :enjoy:

And order recieved from country L for FX70 drone system(as part of NORINCO's Project SR5).

锐鹰FX系列无人机获得出口立项批复

十三五以来，无人机研究院瞄准国际无人机市场的需求变化，自主研发了锐鹰FX系列军贸无人机（含FX3/FX6、FX30/FX70、FX500等五个机型，分属单兵便携、小型长航时、高速隐身等三类无人机），即为中国北方工业有限公司现有系列化身管火炮和火箭炮等陆军压制武器配套研发的不同任务半径（300km以内）的战术侦察无人机，主要实现武器系统前方侦察、搜索、目标识别、定位、照射引导、火力校射、毁伤评估等任务。

通过历时一年半的产品出口立项审查，2018年8月，锐鹰FX系列所有机型均已获得国防科工局和中央军委装备发展部正式下发的出口立项批复，这是我校开拓国际无人机市场的一个重要突破。

2017年以来，我校授权中国北方工业有限公司利用其在中东、东南亚、北非等市场渠道优势进行锐鹰FX系列无人机的产品推介，并参加了中国兵器工业集团主办的装甲与反装甲主题营销活动，相关机型获得了良好的市场反响和订货意向。目前，FX70无人机系统（随中国北方工业有限公司SR5项目）已获L国的首套订货，交付产品将参加2019年L国建军70周年阅兵庆典。2018年11月，锐鹰FX系列无人机将随中国兵器工业集团组团参加珠海航展。该系列无人机后续还将计划参加国外相关防务展。

锐鹰FX系列无人机的研发秉承“技术+市场+资金”的合作共赢理念，得益于我校深厚的无人机研发人才与技术积淀、中国北方工业有限公司的科研立项资助与市场推广以及浦口区政府的项目研发补贴支持，其出口立项获批必将成为推动我校无人机事业实现产业升级、市场多元、发展壮大的有利契机。

"L" for Laos?

LKJ86 · Sep 12, 2018

Deino · Sep 12, 2018

Ähhhm ... these are all in the wrong thread since they are surely no UAVs aka unmanned AERIAL vehicles.

LKJ86 · Sep 15, 2018

JSCh · Sep 16, 2018

Drone mail delivery changes life for mountain community
CGTN
2018-09-16 14:08 GMT+8

Weicheng Town is under the administration of Guiyang City, capital of China's southwestern Guizhou Province. The area has nearly 30,000 residents, some of whom live in villages scattered around the mountains.

Wang Hua is a staff member at the branch post office in Weicheng. There are about 300 letters and parcels for him to deliver on a daily basis. Usually, he carries the 40 kg mailbag on the motorcycle and tramps over the mountains. "Some of the parcels are fresh fruits from the folks' children, which could go bad very quickly,” Wang said. “The parcels also include emergency medicines, ID cards people need urgently for their business."

CGTN Photo

Wang begins work at 8 am. He has to walk about 100 km per day to cover all the villages and finishes at about 6 pm. It takes longer when the weather is terrible. Knowing that the parcels are eagerly expected, Wang takes good care of them as if they were of his own. "The job is about earning people's trust," he said.

Wang Hua / CGTN Photo

CGTN Photo

He takes the same route three times a week, and he is quite familiar with the villagers, whom he often runs into and has brief chats with.

In January of this year, Wang's duties changed a lot. A pilot drone delivery project was launched at the branch post office where he works.

An R&D company sets the course of the drone in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Wang is in charge of the takeoff procedure. In the morning, he lays a blue and red blanket on the ground. It's a positioning device for takeoff and landing. Then he mounts the packages under the belly of the drone and checks the battery before he sets it off by scanning the QR code on the machine.

CGTN Photo

A fully charged drone can fly for 30 minutes carrying the cargo of 5 kg, enough for it to reach the nearby villages. There's a relay person in every village who guides the drone with another blanket, gets the mail and replaces the battery. In this way, the parcels are delivered across the town with efficiency.

While it took a day to deliver the mails, the drone can do it within an hour.

"Once, an old lady in Lianhua Village had her daughter buy her some emergency medicine online. It would've taken me three hours on a motorcycle to deliver it. But with the drone, it took less than 20 minutes," said Wang.

CGTN Photo

CGTN Photo

Many villagers had never seen a drone before. "At first, people were astonished. They gathered in our place just to watch how it works." Some of them asked about the timetable and went to watch several times.

Now that the drone delivery is well accepted, only the heavy parcels are delivered using motorcycles. The R&D company collects data on the drone's performance in the town in the hope that the service could be introduced to more remote villages.

CGTN Photo

"No matter what tools I use to deliver, I'm always closely connected with the villagers," says Wang. Technology may change many things, but the principle of a postman to deliver fast and reliably will always be the same.

The story is one in The 1.3 Billion series exploring the diverse lives that make up China.

LKJ86 · Sep 18, 2018

AV500

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/1hmFi4VS7taylkQ09IB_KA

cirr · Sep 21, 2018

Serbia looks to acquire Chinese drones and the technological know-how

By: Jaroslaw Adamowski 5 hours ago

Serbian soldiers stand guard next to the national flag prior to an honor salute on the eve of Serbia's Statehood Day. (Vladimir Zivojinovic/AFP via Getty Images)

WARSAW, Poland — Serbia’s acting assistant defense minister has announced the ministry is negotiating with a number of Chinese drone manufacturers to acquire UAVs for the Serbian military.

Nenad Miloradovic said Serbia aims to buy Chinese drones for its armed forces as well as the technology that will allow the country’s defense industry to produce UAVs in the long term.

"This package deal, under which we plan to purchase, but also produce reconnaissance drones for the Serbian military, should be implemented shortly," Miloradovic said, as reported by local daily Blic.

The official said that Serbia is positioning itself as a military-neutral country, and its government aims to procure weapons and military gear for the country’s armed forces from various suppliers.

"We don’t have ideological prejudices in what concerns buying weapons," Miloradovic said.

In a sign of strengthened military cooperation with Russia, Serbia’s government earlier this year approved the purchase of six Mil Mi-17 helicopters, complementing acquisitions of other aircraft and weapons from Moscow. In contrast, Serbia signed a deal in 2016 to buy nine H145M helicopters from Dutch-French company Airbus.

The value of the planned UAV deal was not disclosed by the Serbian official.

https://www.defensenews.com/unmanne...hinese-drones-and-the-technological-know-how/