shen
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It is crazy how fast emerging market such as consumer UAV is changing. Last year nobody has heard of DJI, now they are the clear market leader.
Chinese UAV/UCAV development
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It is crazy how fast emerging market such as consumer UAV is changing. Last year nobody has heard of DJI, now they are the clear market leader.
broadsword
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Wow! Good marketing!!!!Personally I like the one in black. However, I agree with Delft, I wouldn't do a trade in.....
No trade in needed. Just buy up!
by78
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I would want better photographs of the rotor blade tips.
I agree. The rotor blade tips definitely deserves a closer look:
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broadsword
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Just don't fall into the crevice.
vesicles
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Why would you think that is a problem? I thought that was a good thing...
Miragedriver
Brigadier
I’m sorry?........ What was that?............ Were we talking about a UAV?...............Was there a UAV in the pictures?.......
Excuse me as I go a take a cold shower………
shen
Senior Member
I noticed there is a Chinese and US flag over on the far right of the vertical stabilizer. It took a lot of will power from me to get my eyes off of her.
Ewatt is a big Chinese power line equipment supplier. traditionally helicopters are used to do long distance power line inspection. UAV can do it cheaper, so Ewatt decided to get into the UAV business. not experienced in aircraft design, Ewatt teamed up with a famous American aircraft designer and his company, sorry forgot his name. The American company get the financial and manufacturing capability of a large company. Ewatt get the technology and the connection to quickly get into the American market.
O.k. guys; enough girls ... therefore some need to take a cold shower ... but now back to the topic !
Miragedriver
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Sorry Dino just wanted to add some witty comments to spice up our uneventful days. But back to the topic at hand.
A resent article in Defence Industry Daily mentioned thatChinese boasts the largest number of unmanned military aerial vehicles behind that of the United States.
In the last decade, China's drone investments have deepened and its ambitions have widened in scope. published earlier this year, claimed China's military spending in 2013 far exceeded Beijing's reported figure. It also voiced concerns about Beijing's push into more versatile and powerful drone development. Chinese efforts on this front, the report indicated, "Combines unlimited resources with technological awareness that might allow China to match or even outpace U.S. spending on unmanned systems in the near future."
It seems that the greatest concern is China's ability to match, or exceed drone capabilities of the U.S. and its East Asian allies, specifically where maritime disputes over islands in the South China Sea and the East China Sea are a seemingly permanent source of tension and provocation in the region. It doesn’t take an air chair general like us to figure out that China's new capabilities present serious challenges to the U.S. Navy, which has long been the guarantor of stability in the Western Pacific.
Not wanting to open up a geopolitics argument here, China's advances in drone technologies also means the chances of dozens of other countries building up their own fleets is more likely, given the “relative cheapness” of Chinese drone technology compared to the costs of American drones. Governments like Pakistan, for example, are keen to acquire Chinese drones, while other nervous Asian powers like Japan and India also seek to boost their arsenals.
As drone technology proliferates, seemingly unchecked, those companies investing in anti-drone weapon system may become wealthy.
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