Chinese UAV/UCAV development

If it's really a hologram, then I wonder why they're promoting it as a UAV control system rather than just a general display system.

It's been in the works for years, No surprise they are looking into it. Optimally I think the best place would be in a Command HQ where when partnered with touch screen displays a theater wide tactical/ Strategic display could be better shown, as well in mission briefings.

Bltizo said:

If it's really a hologram, then I wonder why they're promoting it as a UAV control system rather than just a general display system.

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It may be aimed to create a more immersive environment for the pilot by combining data from camera's positioned across the hull of the airframe creating a "Virtual Cockpit" current drones use computer monitors this creates a 2D environment and is farther limited in older drones by there Electro optics being needed for other tasks making a soda straw view. the aim of this may be to give the pilot of the craft a display allowing the pilot to operate in a more natural matter well the mission specialist who operates the weapons and payload can focus on just what they need to do.'

I am reminded of the Ace Combat Games in particular the ADF -01 Falken, a fighter unique to the game world if you play the game you know that it lacks a conventional cockpit in instead uses the fictitious Coffin Cockpit where in the pilot sits in a space with no transparent cockpit and the flight information is projected around them. now in the game the fighter is manned so a advantage of such would be that the Pilot could be surrounded in more armor.

Unmanned said:

China Developing Holographic UAV Control Center
By WENDELL MINNICK
Defense News
Nov. 11, 2014 - 02:59PM

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ZHUHAI, CHINA — China’s biggest aviation manufacturer, Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), is developing a holographic ground control system (GCS) for UAVs.

Unveiled at Airshow China here, the “nerve center” or GCS displays the UAV as a holographic image. It allows the controller to command the aircraft, obtain flight parameters and information on navigation and guidance through a “human-machine interface.”

The controller experiences the entire process of the mission via this interface, including mission payload, route planning, flight control, identification of friend/foe, precision strikes and task assessment of the UAV operational environment.

Airshow China, known officially as the 10th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, is being held from Nov. 11-16. ■

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Hope nobody sneezes in that thing, or scratches their head.

Is there context to the word "Sharp" like in Chinese literature? I've noticed there's the Sharp Sword UAV and at Zhuhai there comes the Sharp Claw UGV. Both having to be remotely controlled.

Bltizo said:

If it's really a hologram, then I wonder why they're promoting it as a UAV control system rather than just a general display system.

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There are a lot of advances in computer interface. It is possible to input via a hologram as in this

Previously, there were demonstrations of input via projected pictures like keyboards. You input via interference with the light rather than the physical keyboard.

I don't know if this is what AVIC has in mind.

See, the thumbnail associated with the article seems to suggest a holographic block like what you see in sci fi, rather than only a head mounted display.

That is why I'm doubtful about it being a "cockpit" like what terran empire suggested. The thumbnail shows a standard two screen control console, in front of the hologram "block," suggesting it may show a wider tactical picture instead

AssassinsMace said:

Is there context to the word "Sharp" like in Chinese literature? I've noticed there's the Sharp Sword UAV and at Zhuhai there comes the Sharp Claw UGV. Both having to be remotely controlled.

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I doubt it.
They're just names.

Every other weapon system is called XYZ dragon so they need something new to use lol

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There are a lot of advances in computer interface. It is possible to input via a hologram as in this

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Previously, there were demonstrations of input via projected pictures like keyboards. You input via interference with the light rather than the physical keyboard.

I don't know if this is what AVIC has in mind.

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that system was recently partnered with sensors on a M113 for a driver station

Bltizo said:

See, the thumbnail associated with the article seems to suggest a holographic block like what you see in sci fi, rather than only a head mounted display.

That is why I'm doubtful about it being a "cockpit" like what terran empire suggested. The thumbnail shows a standard two screen control console, in front of the hologram "block," suggesting it may show a wider tactical picture instead

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so the you think it more inline with my first post. A command interface. Allowing a supervisor to oversee the operations from the strategic direction of Drone operations?

China Unveils First Amphib UAV
By WENDELL MINNICK
Defense News
Nov. 12, 2014 - 11:30AM |





ZHUHAI, CHINA — The first Chinese-made amphibious UAV has been unveiled at the Airshow China in Zhuhai, in the southern province of Guangdong near Hong Kong.

Built by Shanghai UVS Intelligence System Co., the prototype S100 Seaplane fixed-wing UAV can be equipped with infrared, optical and synthetic aperture radar packages.

A company official said customers interested in the S100 are governments with requirements for coastal surveillance or near-ship surveillance.

The S100 has a cruising speed of 185 kilometers per hour, an endurance of eight hours, a 200-kilometer range and a payload capacity of 240 kilograms.

The aircraft has received certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency [Impossible in RPAS configuration].

Airshow China, known officially as the 10th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, is being held from Nov. 11-16.