Chinese UAV/UCAV development

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taxiya

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I don't know which UAV this is. Note the coaxial rotor.

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Looks like FH-1 from BUAA 北京航空航天大学
It appeared in 2009 in Zhuhai
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taxiya

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The image of this drone was taken in Hefei, Anhui province. Do we know what aerospace/drone makers are based there? It could be that BeiHang passed the design to an Anhui-based company to manufacturer.
It has to be produced by someone else even if it is developped by BeiHang which is only a University/Research Institute.
 

taxiya

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Looks more like TD220 to me.

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The image of this drone was taken in Hefei, Anhui province. Do we know what aerospace/drone makers are based there? It could be that BeiHang passed the design to an Anhui-based company to manufacturer.
TD220 is from this company
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It could be that everything execpt the flight control software are of BeiHang origin. Because
  1. It is a common practice that China's R&D Institute and Universities sell their outcomes to commercial companies for production or create a company of their own for that purpose.
  2. The designer's expertise is flight control, he graduated from department of BIT. His knowledge of aircraft is from the club of flight model in BIT (Not trying to under-state him).
  3. In the product description (link above), it is stated
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The highlighted text says "equipped with self developped flight control system". If the whole aircraft is designed and developped by his company, there is no reason for him to emphasize the self develop part. Hence my thought above.

Here is a link about the TD220's designer if you want read about history of him and his business.
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Hendrik_2000

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From Henri k blog this is an excellent use of old plane
Chinese logistics giant SF Express's FH-98 cargo drone made its first commercial flight today, between Ningxia and Inner Mongolia. Derived from the Y-5B transport aircraft, the #drone can transport up to 1.5t of cargo over a distance of 1200 km
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A cheap way to resupply those islet in SCS with medicine, mail,vital spare parts, foods
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