Chinese MALE, HALE (and rotary, small, suicide) UAV/UCAV thread
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LMFAO rotating AESA on DJI drones…
Holy shit. Imagine E-3 Sentry AWACS losing out to a hobbyist drone...
#NowEveryoneCanFlyAESA
by78
General
LQ-218 VTOL UAV from Xi'an Aisheng UAV Technology Ltd. (), especially suited for high-altitude (Tibet) operations. The naval variant comes with a heavy oil engine.
- Max takeoff weight: 100kg
- Ceiling: 7000m
- Wingspan: 5.2m
- Length: 2.8m
- Payload capacities: 5kg/20kg/30kg
- Max takeoff altitude: 4500m from sea level
- Min operating temperature: -40°C
- Max takeoff weight: 100kg
- Ceiling: 7000m
- Wingspan: 5.2m
- Length: 2.8m
- Payload capacities: 5kg/20kg/30kg
- Max takeoff altitude: 4500m from sea level
- Min operating temperature: -40°C
Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
AVIC Group's 601 Shenyang Institute is studying a new carrier missile designed to deploy a swarm of 80 drones. The carrier missile is 7m long, 1m in diameter, and weighs 2.5t. Each is 60cm long with a mass of 5kg.
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Other than capable of being a disperser that can launch mini attack drones or glide bomblets, this carrier missile can also be configured to launch miniature decoy drones to confuse, overwhelm and suppress enemy SAM defenses during a massed missile/missile swarm attack. These decoy drones can also include those for locale target guidance (for small groups of mini attack drones or glide bomblets) and ECM (to degrade enemy SAM interception efforts).
This is similar to this decoy disperser that is being developed for use alongside the Rapid Dragon missile system:
Assuming that the wings can be folded, then the H-6s can certainly carry these carrier missiles inside their bomb bays or underneath their wing pylons. Though, considering how the H-6s are usually more important for the role of carrying and launching ALCMs, ALBMs and ALHMs, these carrier missiles can also be carried inside the cargo compartments of the Y-9s and Y-20s (which will accompany the H-6s in their strike missions).
Besides, since the H-6s are already non-stealthy, using the similarly non-stealthy Y-9s or Y-20s for launching these carrier missiles isn't going to be much of an issue anyway.
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