PLAN Anti-ship/surface missiles

by78

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Almost all target drones usually look like cruise missiles to begin with (while there are a wide variety of passenger planes. Come to think of it, I think there might have been a passenger conversion of the B-29).
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I find it odd that the Chinese would display a target drone in the middle of a lineup of known anti-ship cruise missiles.

The thing could be an UAV with recon payload, I suppose; but to display a mere target drone is stretching it a bit.

As for the Enola Gay itself, it was never converted into a passenger liner. It retired from military service and is now at the Smithsonian Museum.
 
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by78 said:
I find it odd that the Chinese would display a target drone in the middle of a lineup of known anti-ship cruise missiles.

As for the Enola Gay itself, it was never converted into a passenger liner. It retired from military service and is now at the Smithsonian Museum.
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I'm talking about the B-29 in general. Saw the Enola Gay last Friday, as a matter of fact.

As for the placement, it depends on what the vendors do (each vendor has their own logic, or lack of, in using their exhibition space, see AUSA 2014 for example).
 
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by78 said:
I find it odd that the Chinese would display a target drone in the middle of a lineup of known anti-ship cruise missiles.

As for the Enola Gay itself, it was never converted into a passenger liner. It retired from military service and is now at the Smithsonian Museum.
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it's certainly not out of the realm of possibilities that this could be a target drone. I don't see anything wrong with what SamuraiBlue said.
 
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Almost all target drones usually look like cruise missiles to begin with (while there are a wide variety of passenger planes. Come to think of it, I think there might have been a passenger conversion of the B-29).
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There was, the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser -
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, by way of the C-97 -
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. And most of these were tanker aircraft, KC-97.
 
AssassinsMace

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Not sure if the designations have anything to say but WJ-600 is a retrievable armed UAV that has been tested. I saw some of those pictures of the WJ-500 early on and its big brother is to the side.
 
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not target drone.

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ZHUHAI, CHINA — The China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp. has unveiled a new WJ-series UAV.

The angular, stealthy design of the multipurpose, subsonic WJ-500 — on display this week at Airshow China — gives it a low radar signature allowing for “great defense penetration” and provides for a variety of missions, including simulating the characteristics of cruise missiles and aircraft, according to the company.

As a combat platform it can handle a variety of payloads, including photoelectric, reconnaissance and synthetic aperture packages. Missions include reconnaissance, targeting and damage assessment.

Airshow China, known officially as the 10th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, is being held Nov. 11-16 in Zhuhai in the southern province of Guangdong near Hong Kong.
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by78

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AssassinsMace

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At the end of this video... supposedly YJ-18 launch. Frankly with all the new missiles showing up I forgot the details on the YJ-18. My library has only launch tube pics so I don't know if there has ever been a pic released of the missile itself. Other sites are posting pics of the vertical launch at the end of this video saying it's the CX-1.

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