AVIC Chengdu and the city of are building an industrial park for the production of UAVs. The park will eventually occupy some 800 acres and be home to enterprises up and down the supply chain. The image below shows the signing ceremony where the first batch of companies/parts suppliers commit to setting up operations in the industrial park.
Last edited: Aug 22, 2022
I'm just waiting for domestic manufacturers to create suicide UAVs like below. It doesn't seem like a big design departure from traditional design but has insane burst speed, China has enough manufacturing capacity that small suicide drones should be seen as munitions rather than a reusable platform. A single truck container could carry thousands of them.Self-explanatory.
AVIC Chengdu's UAV production base at Zigong has been officially commissioned. The current production capacity is 200 UAVs per year.
More images of AVIC Chengdu's new UAV production base.
P.S. The second image shows a Wingloong-1 with an enlarged radome. The hump is much more pronounced and probably houses a larger satellite communications antenna, among other possible improvements.