Chinese UAV/UCAV development

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At 01:43 am on December 10th, the "Pterosaur"-10 drone carried a multi-type mission load and landed safely after completing the last meteorological survey flight mission. This marked the end of "Haiyan Project" marine meteorological survey scientific research test mission in 2021. It flew 6 take-offs and landings in the whole process, and the total flight time was 13 hours and 25 minutes.

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siegecrossbow said:
There isn’t. I’m just basing it on educated guess. The only clients of Chinese drones who could afford WJ-700 are the Saudis, the UAE, and Egypt and possibly Indonesia.
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Why isnt Pakistan on the shortlist? Or does this overlap too closely with existing capabilities?
 
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Deino said:
Why do you think it is carrier-related?
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"Possible". The OP who posted it thinks so ( the same guy who hinted of the initiation of the 14th Plan shipbuilding). Also, the attention to the nose landing gear.
Do note the attention to the marked part of the landing gear (red dots). Probably to account for the forces exerted by the launch bar (a catapult launch).
 
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siegecrossbow said:
There isn’t. I’m just basing it on educated guess. The only clients of Chinese drones who could afford WJ-700 are the Saudis, the UAE, and Egypt and possibly Indonesia.
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Saudis, UAE and Egypt ok.
but Indonesia..., umm, err, is it a good idea?
any guarantee that Indonesia would not use the WJ-700 or other UAVs against China at the SCS theatre?
 
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Jono said:
Saudis, UAE and Egypt ok.
but Indonesia..., umm, err, is it a good idea?
any guarantee that Indonesia would not use the WJ-700 or other UAVs against China at the SCS theatre?
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China can certainly have means in place to keep that from happening. IIRC, China has already sold Indonesia anti-ship missles.

Additionally, China's interests are way beyond the SCS theatre. By the same logic, Saudis, UAE and Egypt could one day use their China-made UAVs against China in the Middle East and north Africa. Yet such concerns did not stop China from making the deals with them.
 
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