Chinese MALE, HALE (and rotary, small, suicide) UAV/UCAV thread
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More images of that new large strike UAV "JetTank".
Why have they labelled 九天 as "Jetank?" Not pinyin transliteration, not English translation, just gibberish. What a strange choice.
PLA Watchers: "Jiutian!" "It's Nine Days!" "No it's Ninth Heaven!!"
AVIC: It's Jetank.
It's that stupid Pterodactyl / Wing Loong situation again.
In a way it's kind of genius, they take the phonetic sound of its name in mandarin, choose a couple of words in English which sound similar and have a passing relevance to random military sounding shenanigans, and you have a name.
In many ways it is a reflection not only of their lack of interest in marketing, but also on top of that is their primacy of putting mandarin ahead of English. I can somewhat respect the "I don't care attitude" implied in the thought process.
lcloo
Captain
Actually Jetank does incorporated a word of relevance, i.e. tank. Tank as in a retangular metallic container, which is the modular payload of this UCAV. If you check the earlier photos of Jetank, you will find 2 such rectangular containers or tanks located beside the UCAV.
The modular container tanks serve as storage tanks on transport mode and launching mechanism for missiles/bombs.
The modular container tanks serve as storage tanks on transport mode and launching mechanism for missiles/bombs.
The tank on the left says 物流运输任务仓, or logistic transportation module. The one on the right (the one that raises eyebrows) says 文保勘测任务舱 or something like cultural preservation survey module.
We know there's a 3rd module called 异构蜂巢任务舱 or isomerism hive module which is suspected to hold a crap load of drones.
by78
General
More information on the 'Jetank' large UAV.
"The Jiutian UAV system is a heavy-duty reconnaissance and strike UAV designed by the First Aircraft Design Institute of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China and manufactured by Xi'an Chida Aircraft Parts Co., Ltd.
The Jiutian UAV system is a flexible heavy-duty UAV and the next generation of large unmanned aerial general platform. It is equipped with a quickly replaceable heavy-duty mission cabin and 8 external attachment points. It can meet the mission requirements of air transport and airdrop, information support and confrontation, firepower strike and support by replacing different modular mission payloads. The Jiutian UAV is 16.35 meters long, with a wingspan of 25 meters, a maximum take-off weight of 16 tons, a maximum load capacity of 6 tons, a maximum mission flight altitude of 15,000 meters, a maximum flight speed of 700 kilometers per hour, a flight time of more than 12 hours, a total of 8 external attachment points under the two wings, and a mission payload with an available power of 90kW.
The Jiutian UAV has platform advantages such as large load, high ceiling, wide speed range, short take-off and landing, high power, and low cost; it has mission support capability advantages such as "building block" body architecture, open system architecture, high environmental adaptability, and broad spectrum situation fusion perception; it has the cost advantage of making full use of the large-scale distributed production of military and civilian production capacity and the user support advantage of integrated guarantee. The Jiutian UAV system adopts a mission-centric modular design, equipped with a quickly replaceable heavy-load mission cabin, which can be flexibly expanded and continuously upgraded according to user requirements."
"The Jiutian UAV system is a heavy-duty reconnaissance and strike UAV designed by the First Aircraft Design Institute of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China and manufactured by Xi'an Chida Aircraft Parts Co., Ltd.
The Jiutian UAV system is a flexible heavy-duty UAV and the next generation of large unmanned aerial general platform. It is equipped with a quickly replaceable heavy-duty mission cabin and 8 external attachment points. It can meet the mission requirements of air transport and airdrop, information support and confrontation, firepower strike and support by replacing different modular mission payloads. The Jiutian UAV is 16.35 meters long, with a wingspan of 25 meters, a maximum take-off weight of 16 tons, a maximum load capacity of 6 tons, a maximum mission flight altitude of 15,000 meters, a maximum flight speed of 700 kilometers per hour, a flight time of more than 12 hours, a total of 8 external attachment points under the two wings, and a mission payload with an available power of 90kW.
The Jiutian UAV has platform advantages such as large load, high ceiling, wide speed range, short take-off and landing, high power, and low cost; it has mission support capability advantages such as "building block" body architecture, open system architecture, high environmental adaptability, and broad spectrum situation fusion perception; it has the cost advantage of making full use of the large-scale distributed production of military and civilian production capacity and the user support advantage of integrated guarantee. The Jiutian UAV system adopts a mission-centric modular design, equipped with a quickly replaceable heavy-load mission cabin, which can be flexibly expanded and continuously upgraded according to user requirements."
