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

Nomi007

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Video and images from the successful maiden flight of CH-YH1000. The UAV has a range of 1,500 km, endurance of 10 hours, a ceiling of 8,000m, and a payload capacity of 1,200 kg.


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Looks like

Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant​

 

vincent

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A mobile anti-UAV defense system on a BAIC Brave Warrior chassis. MMW radar, VLS, and a drone landing pad. Not sure what are packed in the cells: anti-UAV drones or small SAMs?

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Wouldn't the driver and passenger get irradiated by the MMW radar constantly?
 

Proteus

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Wouldn't the driver and passenger get irradiated by the MMW radar constantly?
quick google for you
Millimeter wave (mmWave) radar, including the kind used in airport scanners, is generally considered safe, as it uses non-ionizing radiation. While it can cause localized heating and potential thermal effects in the skin, the energy density required to cause significant damage is much higher than what is typically delivered by these scanners. There is no clear evidence of harmful effects beyond localized heating and related chemical changes.
 

mond

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Wouldn't the driver and passenger get irradiated by the MMW radar constantly?
Water is fairly absorbant in the mmWave region, the attenuation length is around 0.1mm so it won't be able to penetrate your skin. Even if it did, mmWave photons aren't energetic enough to do scary things like alter your chemistry in the same way that say x-rays can, it will cause rotational or vibrational excitations which will couple thermally. So the worst thing that can happen is that your skin gets boiled, but at reasonable radar power outputs of a couple kilowatts max (which is for a typical commercial airliner, probably much less for this kind of small platform) you'd be able to feel that and move out of the way in time.
 
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