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

[mack8]

I still maintain that Type A and Type F are the same, but if i'm wrong i certainly won't be disappointed.

 

[GTI]

I still maintain that Type A and Type F are the same, but if i'm wrong i certainly won't be disappointed.

Why don’t we just look at the satellite pictures.

The answer is clearly there.

 

[ACuriousPLAFan]

You beat me to it again, because I didn't want to post it here directly as a link... by the way, No. 4 aka Type D looks different in both images! So maybe I made a mistake?!!

I believe it might just be the angle of photographs and/or the way at which the mockup was initially wrapped could be misleading.

 

[tamsen_ikard]

All of them seem to be stealth designs. Even the ones with tails look stealthy.

 

[ACuriousPLAFan]

I still maintain that Type A and Type F are the same, but if i'm wrong i certainly won't be disappointed.

Why don’t we just look at the satellite pictures.

The answer is clearly there.

Here it is from July, which shows five distinct CCA-type UCAV mockups (not including the GJ-11/15?/21?).

This means that either two of the listed types of CCA-type UCAV actually belongs to the same model (and that there are only five distinct CCA-type UCAV mockups in total), or that one of the CCA-type UCAV models was at somewhere else when the satellite made its pass over that site on that day (and that there are actually six distinct CCA-type UCAV mockups in total).

 

[mack8]

Actually, there are 4 large (for a UCAV) hangers in that staging / parking area…

That’s what I’m interested in.

Why don’t we just look at the satellite pictures.

The answer is clearly there.

Well that's what i'm basing my guesstimate on, we see 5 different types excluding the GJ-11/21 in the sat pics. Left twin row we have YFQ-42 type alongside tailed diamond one, then J-50 lite and J-36 lite. Right row we have the larger YFQ-42 type. That is of course if there isn't another one that wasn't caught in the sat pics, though seems unlikely for now.

 

[tankphobia]

So no wz-8 at this year's parade? Nothing shown so far hints to it being part of the entourage of drones.

 

[by78]

A much better version of a previously shared image.

 

[Deino]

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Some suggest - and IMO highly plausible - the missing "big-ones" are still under these sheds!

 

[huitong]

The two swept wing CCAs have been re-added. I mixed the two types by mistake when taking a quick break at work.