Chinese Hypersonic Developments (HGVs/HCMs)
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Depending on how big those engines are, the UAV may be too big to be hung from an H-6...
Hmmm. Debating what the bigger determinant/limiter is. Amount of thrust you need for larger body, or thermal efficiency from larger engines.
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JayBird
Junior Member
Maybe can put on top of the H-6? There are still some people believe it was flown on it's own and not attach to the H-6 because it's too big under the H-6 wing.
It would not have to be a CGI at all...just a close up of something other than what it is reported to be.
For example, most people, if the following pictures were posted on a fan-boy site and were told that any one of them was a close up of details of the new hypersonic aircraft, could easily accept it as authentic. That's because each of them is an authentic photo...just not of the PLAAF hypersonic aircraft prototype:
Haha, don't disagree there. I was considering the possibility that it was a CGI, not considering the possibility that it was really the plane itself.
Yeah... I mean people have compared this UAV to the D21... but the D21 was a 5 ton aircraft, and H-6 only has a max payload of 8 tons. So I'm not even sure if H-6 has the structural integrity to haul a D-21 sized drone under a single hardpoint. If this drone is even bigger than D21 (if suggested by its suspected twin engines) then that makes it even more unlikely.
Maybe they could put it atop or below the H-6 rather than on a standard hardpoint...
SinoSoldier
Colonel
I'm beginning to think that the reports have been referring to two seperate projects: a small-sized drone utilizing a scramjet or ramjet engine (akin to the Waverider), and a larger (possibly manned) platform utilizing the variable-cycle engines that have allegedly been in development.
Also, the latest picture showing the two possible engine exhausts makes me think the aft engine (and possibly intake) configuration of the drone is similar to SR-72s... i.e.: having two engines separated slightly, with a tailcone in between, and a possible recess between the two engine nacelles.
If the two round things really are engine exhausts, at least it suggests the earlier "Sino SR-72s" from a few pages back with the wider spaced engines are not very accurate (though then again I don't think any of us seriously believed the actual thing would follow those CGIs too closely)
If the two round things really are engine exhausts, at least it suggests the earlier "Sino SR-72s" from a few pages back with the wider spaced engines are not very accurate (though then again I don't think any of us seriously believed the actual thing would follow those CGIs too closely)
SinoSoldier
Colonel
Those CGs are from 2014 and have no bearing on what the actual thing will look like.