Chinese UAV News & Discussions (Strictly)

[Deino]

Informative!

You mean these two??

 

[ozranger]

You mean these two??

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Yes they seem to be supersonic stealth drones. Either or both might work with J-20 through directional data links or be controlled by an unstealth remote aircraft.

Normal UAVs tend to be either subsonic to maximise flight duration or hypersonic to maximise speed. Differently those 2 drones seem to work as companions to fighter jets because their design is highly adaptive to a wide range of speed requirement, from subsonic to supersonic, while fulfilling some high AoA stability requirement at the same time.

That will make sure that they can follow a flying controller fighter jet within a predefined maximum distance and maneuver quickly across a wide range of altitudes.

Perhaps such design is for creating loyal wingmen I guess.

Furthermore I guess one design is optimised for hunting enemy fighter jets and the other one is mainly for penetrating intensive enemy front-line air defense to hit high value, time sensitive ground targets, which means one is smaller with weapon bay of limited size only for AAMs, and the other one is bigger with a bigger internal fuel tank and a bigger internal weapon bay.

Of course AI should be an inherent component of the design.

 

[Deino]

Does anyone have more information?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1087383582186852353

 

[bahadur999]

Does anyone have more information?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1087383582186852353

I wonder if this company is actually Zhongtian Guide Control. Never heard of Feilong. Pucheng Airport seems like a place where many private companies use to test their equipment. I wonder who own this place...i guess not PLAAF.

 

[zestokryl]

Photo from the airshow :

 

[JSCh]

Solar-powered Drone by Chinese Scientists Finishes Year-round Test
CCTV Video News Agency
Published on Jan 19, 2019

A solar-powered drone "Meiying" developed by Chinese scientists recently finished its year-round test for long flight in northwest China's Shaanxi Province. The drone developed by the scientists of Northwestern Polytechnical University has completed its test in four seasons. In the latest winter test in Jingbian County of Shaanxi, the drone flied over 10 hours with sunlight eight times weaker than that in summer. http://www.cctvplus.com/news/20190119...

 

[bahadur999]

Photo from the airshow :

Yes. I remember it has MTOW of 3.2T but length and wingspan are unknown.

 

[Deino]

Does anyone have more information?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1087383582186852353

Oh well ... I think I'm getting old. I was standing under that UAV at Zhuhai on my own.

I am the one with the blue shirt and yellow backpack

By the way FL-1 should reportedly be best translated not as Flying Dragon but as wyvern ... image via Filip Hey (FB)

 

[zestokryl]

Beautiful looking bird. Whats the engine group, btw ?

 

[LKJ86]

 

[bahadur999]

Chinese company X control presents the family of helicopter twin rotor UAVs , Mk - Master Key, at the MAKS 2017

http://forum.militaryparitet.com/viewtopic.php?id=17628

Mk-18 (MTOW 18 кg), Mk-18 the smallest drone, payload up to 12 кг. Electric engine, up to 6 hours autonomy, ceiling 4000 m

Mk-50 (MTOW 52 кg),

Mk-200 (MTOW 200 кg, available in 2018) и

Mk-900 (MTOW 1100 кg, available in 2019 ) . Payload more than 650 kg, autonomy up to 6 hours, ceiling 7000 m

Armed modification, possible in 2020

Is there any update on X Control's UAVs?

 

[LKJ86]

 

[bahadur999]

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Is this part of the CH family? any details?

 

[LKJ86]

 

[bahadur999]

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