Chinese UAV/UCAV development

[PanAsian]

Talking about UAV, I recently get my hands on a Chinese welknown commercial UAV; the DJI Agras MG-1. It's a octacopter agricultural UAV with payload of 10kg and flying with pre-planned route. DJI is one of the largest commercial UAV maker in the world.

What are you doing with it?

 

[SteelBird]

What are you doing with it?

Our company sell pesticides, so we are going to help farmers spraying their with this UAV. We are the first to adopt UAV in farming in Cambodia. You know pesticides are poisonous and if you spray manually, the pesticides eventually fall on your body no matter how you spray it and it is harmful to your health. UAV solves this problem and it is more efficient than spraying manually (40 to 60 faster).

 

[Quickie]

Our company sell pesticides, so we are going to help farmers spraying their with this UAV. We are the first to adopt UAV in farming in Cambodia. You know pesticides are poisonous and if you spray manually, the pesticides eventually fall on your body no matter how you spray it and it is harmful to your health. UAV solves this problem and it is more efficient than spraying manually (40 to 60 faster).

It uses Beidou or GPS or both?

 

[SteelBird]

It uses Beidou or GPS or both?

In the user's manual it state GPS.

 

[Deino]

That's an interesting news ... looks like the Cloud Shadow !?

Updated satellite imagery captured a UAV appeared at the end of catapult track, probably for EMALS launch test.

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[Blackstone]

Cloud Shadow catapult launching experiments?

 

[dingyibvs]

Would've been more helpful if it were on a cat, then we'd know which one is the EMALS!

 

[taxiya]

Would've been more helpful if it were on a cat, then we'd know which one is the EMALS!

looks like the "EMALS". You can see the blast deflector on the broad track is lifted by the shadow.

It is almost certain by logic that only EMALS can launch UAVs due to its capability of fine tuning the force.

P.S. I still don't get why people think the broader track is EMALS and narrower one being steam though.

And I have heard a proposed idea that both are EMALS of different type. The reason was that the site of the supposed steam cat in Shanghai belongs to institute 704 which is specialized in Electrical equipment, none of their business involves steam such as boiler, piping or valves.

 

[zaphd]

I was wondering what exactly was the niche of the cloud shadow when it appeared in zhuhai. Less payload and wingspan than the latest CH variants, yet jet powered. This photo clearly answers that question.

 

[Blitzo]

That's an interesting news ... looks like the Cloud Shadow !?

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I wouldn't immediately leap to think it is cloud shadow. The shape of that UAV could be that twin engine UAV or even an entirely new UAV for all we know.