Chinese MALE, HALE (and rotary, small, suicide) UAV/UCAV thread
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Interesting they seem to have given up on CH6.
The CH-9 can indeed carry a hypersonic missileBy the way, this is the specs of CH-9.
I'm not sure where that 7-10t MTOW came from but it sounded fishy to me to begin with.
I'm unsure if there's some sort of actual difference between the export version and the domestic version, but I doubt it would account for the domestic version having a MTOW twice that of the export version. If anything they should be very similar.
While I sort of agree this translation, naming an armed drone that kills “…Heaven” is just the height of trolling. Didn’t think those Chinese bureaucrats had it in them…
A lot of emphasis on low costWingloon 6 (WL-6) and CloudShadow 350.
Why are the wing tips different colors? And there seems to be a microphone hanging off of the black wing tip, wonder what that’s about
I think it's connotation is more like the spiritual traversal/mastery of great distances. Its not an ironic name about sending people to heaven.
Crossing the 9 heavens can mean traversing the whole world, or crossing the afterlife, like the levels of hell in western mythology.
A similar styled name for a western equivalent might be "Styx" or "Hermes".
Is there a unified summary/compare & contrast of everything known about all the various MALE/HALE strike capable UAV models so far? Too difficult to keep track of the characteristics & differences between them now, too many. Eg engine type, payload, takeoff weight, range/endurance/speed, current/anticipated procurement status, etc. At least the longer ranged ones, i.e. the WL-3, WL-X, CH-5, CH-6, CH-7, CH-9, "Nine Days", WZ-10, TB-001, etc.
Or maybe someone can make one in this thread.
Or maybe someone can make one in this thread.
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What's with the word art font and low res 3D models? For how much resources they spent on the huge variety of platforms they could at least splash a little more cash on the marketing. Those place cards look more like a early 2000 video game ad than a capable military platform...
We can use the ground-launched Tomahawk or CJ-10 LACMs as reference points for the minimum range of an air-launched version.
Call it somewhere between 1500-2400km?
So H-6s should be able to launch against Guam safely at just 1000-1500km from mainland China, and should still be protected by fighters and Chinese naval ships below.