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

Breakdown here on the suppliers to the Jiutian project


AECC providing the turbofan engine

AVIC Chengdu UAS is doing the final assembly

Beidou providing the navigation module

Guangwei is providing CFRP for fuselage

AVIC High Tech/AVIC composite corp is providing CFRP for wings

Chengdu Leejun supplying fuselage structure & processing

Shanghai Moon's Electric is providing the Brushless motor

Beijing Relpow Tech is providing the EO module

Kuangchi (known for meta material) is providing EM interference equipment (ECM I guess)

China Aerospace Times is providing quantum communication module & other functions to support swarming functionality

by78 said:

A nice image of the W5000 unmanned cargo UAV next to people to give an idea of its size.

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Nice screenshots of engine (AEP100) spin-up.

CASC developed a low-cost anti-drone UAV that deploys nets to capture/down its targets. The UAV is reusable and weighs only 4kg. It has a top speed of 144 km/h.

Optical turrets for small UAVs.

by78 said:

Nice screenshots of engine (AEP100) spin-up.

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Can this be used as a mothership for UAVs?