#Taqnia- signed an agreement with #ALIT-to manufacture all types of 'CH' UAVs in Kingdom & to promote them regionally #IDEX2017
CH-5
Compared with the United States' General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper, a hunter-killer drone often deemed by Western analysts as the best of its kind, the CH-5 "can perform whatever operations the MQ-9 Reaper can, and is even better than the US vehicle when it comes to flight duration and operational efficiency," Shi said
Moreover, the CH-5 is able to carry an airborne early warning system to act as a platform for regional surveillance, and battlefield command and control. It also can carry electronic warfare instruments to collect electronic intelligence and to jam enemy communications or radars
Another advantage is that the CH-5 is capable of making a joint strike together with its predecessors, the CH-3 and CH-4, because they can share the same data link and control system. Therefore, it is very easy for current users of the CH-3 and CH-4 to introduce and integrate the CH-5 into their drone network
The CH-5 is able to carry 1,000 kg of equipment and weapons. It will carry 16 air-to-surface missiles when displayed at the air show, but its largest capacity is 24 missiles in a single flight, engineers at the academy said.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2016-11/01/content_27233618.htm
CH-805 with an RCS of 0.01 m2
The more I think about it, the more it makes sense for KSA to have gained ToT with the Wing Loong II as well.
Well even for KSA, 300 pcs it's WAY too much...
the US got around 120+ MQ-9...
