It's rejected.
Chinese UAV/UCAV development
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It's rejected.
do you know which one that is? Definitely not GJ-11. Is it not CH-7?
It is 天鹰, not CH-7.
Was it competing with another design?
I see, so this is what I dug up online
The exhaust seems to be shielded here, but not in the picture that was posted.
DJI drones are great, but they aren't the best platform for guiding artillery. They have short range and and much shorter loiter times compared to fixed wing drones. Most of the videos I've seen artillery is being guided by dedicated military drones.
They do have some advantages. Very easy to operate, small and cheap enough to be carried at the squad level. They'll be useful to check around corners, over buildings, to try and identify where enemy fire is coming from without putting yourself in danger.
Isn't what China is doing or trying to do based on this video? Please correct my amateur understanding.
The idea is multi-rotor drones are terribly inefficient for loitering, instead something like this could hang around for much longer:
Plus let's be frank: the majority of commercial drones sold each year are by DJI. If your army buys a lot of DJI drones to give you ISR capabilities you otherwise wouldn't have then great, it's just you realize in times of war the CPC can at any time tell DJI to geofence the area and render your drone fleet inoperable.
Another reason why Ukraine tactics won't work for Taiwan.
Plus let's be frank: the majority of commercial drones sold each year are by DJI. If your army buys a lot of DJI drones to give you ISR capabilities you otherwise wouldn't have then great, it's just you realize in times of war the CPC can at any time tell DJI to geofence the area and render your drone fleet inoperable.
Another reason why Ukraine tactics won't work for Taiwan.
That's laser guided artillery. Much better, but also more expensive as each artillery shell needs hardware to be able to detect the IR laser and change it's trajectory.
Russia has lots of old Soviet era artillery. Instead relying purely on artillery charts and firing blindly you could fly a drone over the area being targeted and watch where a shell lands. Then adjust position slightly so the shells hit exactly where you want. In WW1 manned balloons were used to do the exact same thing and were highly effective until AA fire and fighter planes became a thing. With tiny fixed wing drones flying at medium/high altitudes there isn't a cost effective counter right now.
The term "force multiplier" has gotten thrown around a lot in this war, but given the Russian/Soviet penchant for massed artillery, drones really are a force multiplier for them.
The drone platform on your video is the one I think is ideal one for it - catapult launched and (presumably) parachute recovered. You don't need runways and can deploy them anywhere. Integrate it with the artillery team so they don't need to depend on anyone else and you've got what modern artillery looks like.
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