That's why I still doubt about its authenticity
Chinese UCAV/CCA/flying wing drones (ISR, A2A, A2G) thread
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On a cursory look, going with more nonstealthy drones seems like a prudent idea, but I don't think it passes the smell test. Frankly, such measures are unnecessary if confronting any opponent other than China, and against China it's going to be inadequate on at least a couple of fronts.
First, the per unit costs are going to be much higher than what the USAF is talking about. Knowing how the MIC works, the contractors are going to gouge the Pentagon, and the Pentagon is going to let them get away with it. At a $20-25 million expected cost, the actual price per unit will probably settle to the $30-40 million range. Secondly, these are supposed to be air superiority platforms, each equipped with 2 AMRAAMs. If the Air Force actually gets the 2000 drones they want, it'll take 4000 AMRAAMs to arm these drones for a single sortie. So guess how many AMRAAMs the USAF plans to procure for FY 2026? It's 426.
And finally, the plan is supposed to be to outproduce China? In drones? That's not a real strategy; it's how a slacker pretends to be working at fixing a problem without doing any real effort into it. A generous interpretation is that they're looking at an intractable problem and are just throwing ideas onto the wall. But that's still too generous for my blood because it doesn't address any of the problems facing the US in a fight against China, and instead introduces a bunch of new ones.
It makes even less sense if you consider the sortie rate they can support in westpac, even if we ignore what China will do to their limited number of airfields they simply can't support large number of drones at once.
Given this fact one would think they need to cram as much survivability into each drones as possible to alleviate the bandwidth but they went the other way?
I'd like to meet the genius who sat down and suggested: "Let's try and outproduce China in the field of cheap, expendable assets," and the table of other geniuses who nodded and agreed with this brilliant suggestion.
Is that the GJ-X? And what's the swept wing aircraft next to it on the left, H-6? GJ-X looks way bigger. Unless that's the "water"... Yes i know the images are mangled to hell but still.
pardon, I don’t understand what you Said!?? … and where is this Image from?
do you suspect it to be faked/psed ? And any Info when it was taken?
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It should be a satellite map of Yan Liang's production base in Xi 'an.
And the source of this picture should be circulated in China social media, and the original source has not been found, and its authenticity is in doubt at present.
So far, I haven't see this photo getting posted or shared by any of the reliable big shrimps on the Chinese side of the internet.
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Thanks a lot for your explanation ..
So the usual "wait and see-game" again!
This is to judge the state that the PLA often falls into in the progress of undisclosed projects. After all, its openness is far from the propaganda army that trolls repeat.