Chinese UAV/UCAV development

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siegecrossbow

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Can anyone identify this UAV?

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Cloudshadow I think.
 

by78

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It's "Cloud Shadow"
Cloudshadow I think.

I was leaning toward CloudShadow, but something doesn't look right to my eyes.

The CloudShadow's fuselage is more faceted, with more of a diamond-shaped cross section bisected by a sharp crease (not quite chines, but more like what's found on the nose section of a J-20 or F-22). The drone in my image appears very slab-sided by comparison. Also, although I can't tell for certain from the angle, this drone appears to have a more blunted nose than the CloudShadow.
 

siegecrossbow

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I was leaning toward CloudShadow, but something doesn't look right to my eyes.

The CloudShadow's fuselage is more faceted, with more of a diamond-shaped cross section bisected by a sharp crease. The drone in my image appears very slab-sided by comparison. Also, although I can't tell for certain from the angle, this drone appears to have a more blunted nose than the CloudShadow.

It has to do with the lighting and camera angle.
 

AkelaFreedom

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I was leaning toward CloudShadow, but something doesn't look right to my eyes.

The CloudShadow's fuselage is more faceted, with more of a diamond-shaped cross section bisected by a sharp crease (not quite chines, but more like what's found on the nose section of a J-20 or F-22). The drone in my image appears very slab-sided by comparison. Also, although I can't tell for certain from the angle, this drone appears to have a more blunted nose than the CloudShadow.

Here is another "Cloud Shadow" image for comparison.

Cloud Shadow (Yun Ying)-01.jpg
 

Schwerter_

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Yes it is ... sorry, but I thought this was clear
If I remember correctly this model (edit: I mean the drone, not the scale model Deino posted, obviously) was last spotted via satellite image in around 2019 at an airbase in Tibet in a showcase-like manner with a number of other drones. Has been completely silent since then with zero info, pictures or direct mentions as far as I know of. Gotta wonder if the program was axed.

Or, thinking back on the years of no information on the J-16D before one Just swaggered into short final at Zhuhai last year, gotta wonder if the program was selected by the military and has been developing under a higher security level.
 
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