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woowwwww.... such a great achievement..!! it's now start to export..!? How many in Vietnam's Inventory..!? Bro can it load any weapon..!?Why you don't take a look at this drone by Vietnam ?
Vietnam Produces Long-Range UAV to Serve National Security
(Source: Xinhua news; published December 11, 2015)
HANOI --- The Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology has successfully developed a long-range unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with equipment for scientific research and electronic reconnaissance to serve national security, local media reported Friday.
Vietnam is now capable of manufacturing long-range UAV to serve the country's socio-economic development and contribute to safeguarding national security, Pham Ngoc Lang, head of the UAV research project at the academy was quoted by local Thanh Nien (Young People) online newspaper as saying.
The UAV is designed with a wingspan of 22 meters and load capacity of 1350 kilograms. It can fly for 35 hours with fly range of over 4000 kilometers.
Earlier in 2013, the academy announced its successful tests of five short-and-medium-range UAV models with 253 successful trial flights.
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23 December 2015
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Vietnam’s new HS-6L UAV, which has 22 m wingspan and an endurance of 35 hours, will greatly improve Vietnam’s surveillance capabilities. Source: Via Top81 web page
Vietnamese television and other media reports have revealed Vietnam’s largest indigenous high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to date, indicating that it will eventually perform civil and military missions over the South China Sea.
Reports from 10 and 11 December 2015 state that the new HS-6L HALE UAV is a product of Vietnam’s Academy of Science and Industry and Ministry of Public Security. The twin-boom-configured HS-6L has a 22 m wingspan, a range of 4,000 km, an endurance of 35 hours, and is powered by a Rotax 914 engine.
The prototype was completed on 1 November 2015 and reports note that it will conduct flight testing over the South China Sea during the second quarter of 2016.
While its payload size has not been revealed, the HS-6L will reportedly carry optical and radar surveillance systems. In size, endurance and configuration, it is roughly in the same class as the Israeli Aerospace Industries Heron UAV.
A view along the wingspan of Vietnam’s new HS-6L HALE UAV. (Via Top81 web page)
However, it is likely that design assistance for the HS-6L came from Belarus. Vietnamese media reports noted the UAV unveiling coincided with a visit of the chairman of the Presidium of the Belarus Academy of Science: Professor Vladimir G Gusakov.
In November 2014 IHS Jane’s reported that Vietnam was purchasing the 5.7-m wingspan Belarus 558 Aviation Repair Plant Grif-K UAV. This features a lightweight composite body and a twin-boom configuration similar to that of the larger HS-6L.
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HS-6L is equipped with a Rotax 914 engine – the same engine with General Atomics MQ-1 Predator UAV sample of Americans.
Unmanned aerial vehicle HS-6L has a wingspan of 22m, is equipped with a Rotax 914 engine – the same engine with General Atomics MQ-1 Predator UAV sample of Americans, range (itinerary) 4.000km long operating time continuous 35 hours, using satellite navigation systems and carry reconnaissance cameras, radars.
Rotax 914 engine is 4-stroke, 4-cylinder components, cooling water or air, have increased pressure turbine BRP-Powertrain as the company (Austria) production. These engines are currently used in dozens of different UAVs worldwide, but more prominent is General Atomics MQ-1 Predator UAV, once the US Air Force and the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) using very Success in the fight against terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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