Chinese UCAV/CCA/flying wing drones (ISR, A2A, A2G) thread

[bebops]

This drone looks good

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

 

[Blitzo]

This drone looks good

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

You've quoted an article that is doing a rehash of a SCMP article


And the image is a X-47B.

 

[ougoah]

View attachment 158595
New pic, but somehow I feel like the shape of this aircraft is all off. Giant dorsal bump doesn't look like a intake and it has some sort of spine that extends the entire way to the engine exhaust.

It's just the angle of the photo and the lamda wings of the aircraft. That distance isn't emphasising the engine nozzle/petal length at all.

 

[no_name]

It may be a hard requirement that all equipment displayed during the parade needed to be manned by a person, so drones even if they are mature enough to flyover never does and instead is displayed on trucks. If they are gonna show off robot dogs and UGVs I expect them to also be displayed on carrying vehicles.

 

[Tomboy]

It may be a hard requirement that all equipment displayed during the parade needed to be manned by a person, so drones even if they are mature enough to flyover never does and instead is displayed on trucks. If they are gonna show off robot dogs and UGVs I expect them to also be displayed on carrying vehicles.

Don't worry, Zhuhai is only a year away

 

[subotai1]

Fair, though TWZ is painting them as being "far from service" which is rather ridiculous.

TWZ has to let up every once in a while and give their audience some red meat to chew on. If they hit them with too much reality, they will call it all "fake" and disengage. The real attraction for eyeballs at TWZ is articles + discussion and have on the discussion.

 

[Deino]

Fair, though TWZ is painting them as being "far from service" which is rather ridiculous.

Could we please stop bothering ourselves about such trivialities, which, especially when viewed objectively, are at least not fundamentally wrong:

1. It was also announced at the respective parades in 2015 and 2019 that all systems were already in service, which at least wasn't the case with the GJ-11 at the time.

2. Of course, it will take years before the CCA/UCAv are in service. This is a fact that cannot be denied, especially since the J-20S has only just entered service and all other next-generation types won't be in service for years either.

So, yes, it's justified to accuse these sites of overly coping, but it's also true that some of you are arguing more like fanboys.

 

[Nautilus]

But why display early and give away the surprise? It only makes you weaker since the your opponents can copy it or counter it.

China has shown again and again that they don't like to show off. They like to hide and bide instead. So, showing off tech before its ready is only going to make them weaker.

It goes against China's whole strategic thinking and past tendencies.

"They don't like to show off" is not a statement that is compatible with a massive military parade. A more accurate statement might be that they don't like to show off non-mature equipment. Either way, there's only so much you can learn about a weapon just by looking at it. Presumably they've done their thinking and decided that the risk is not high enough vs. the PR value from the parade.

 

[SanWenYu]

If they are gonna show off robot dogs and UGVs I expect them to also be displayed on carrying vehicles.

There are indeed photos of a certain UGV and four (?) robot dogs on a bed truck.

 

[by78]

Clear images of these CCAs are hard to come by.