Chinese MALE, HALE (and rotary, small, suicide) UAV/UCAV thread

by78

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Anti-UAV systems being shown at the World Radar Expo.

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vincent

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If it's urban warfare, potentially many.
I’m not a military person, but shouldn’t the assaulting side take out the power to the city first thing before the assault? With power taken out, after a few days no civilian should have power to run their routers, Bluetooth, cordless phones, etc
 

tankphobia

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As an aside, has PLA looked into zipline like system for automated drone deliveries?
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They are launched via spring and are recovered semi-autonomously using a wire after dropping the parachuted payload on to GPS coordinates.
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The drones themselves can carry a 1.8kg payload and up to 300km of flight time (halved return).

2 base stations are able to cover almost the entirety of Rwanda, an admittedly small country. Each base station currently launch up to 500 times a day.
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Seems like this sort of low cost, extremely high throughput UAV usage that can be adapted and further automated for military usage, examples could be hot meals and supplies for high altitude patrolling troops or remote island hopping campaign resupply. Potentially could also drop bombs on GPS coordinates but that will be stretching the capabilities of this configuration a bit.
 

CMP

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Given how advanced DJI is now (especially with the Inspire 3), I am wondering if we see that civilian sophistication translate into revolutionary/innovative advantages for Chinese military drones? I am not sure this exists or is even in the works but the advanced functions for cinematography seems like it would translate well into sniper drones. Taking out enemy special forces/marines/etc. while maintaining sophisticated evasive maneuvers at maximum flight speeds. Automated hunter killer drone swarms creating no man lands where all foreign forces gets sniped or alternatively disabled for capture/interrogation. Those very same swarms alternating in shifts for recharging/battery hot swapping to maintain 24/7 control of critical geographic zones. Mobile drone recharging stations in the air via BALLOONS with solar panels!

You could back them up with ATGM-armed or suicide versions.
 
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