Chinese UAV/UCAV development

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SinoSoldier

SinoSoldier

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Bltizo said:
I can agree that it is normal for fighting forces to experience losses and/or setbacks, and in the case of Saudi Arabia this is their first major independently led operation so it's not unreasonable to expect a less than stellar first performance.

There is no reason to bring the PLA or the Korean War to illustrate your point at all given the difficulty in having an accurate analogy.

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As for Saudi Arabia's performance in Yemen, I do not think it is fair to say that they lack a "will to fight" or anything like that, but rather that they've already picked the low hanging fruit (using their overwhelming air power to drive initial successes), but now they are finding it difficult to fight a ground war against a force of irregular guerrillas despite their vast technological advantages.
That is not too different to any other conflict of this kind involving boots on the ground.
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There is also Saudi Arabia's inexperience with their weaponry to consider. As far as I know, it is the first time the Saudi military dedicated modern military assets to the battlefield in large quantities and the rate at which they are losing tanks to the enemy is quite indicative of that.
 
plawolf

plawolf

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AssassinsMace said:
I don't know if this is just fan boy stuff but I saw a couple threads talk about this UCAV based on the J-15.

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Pure fan fiction.

AI is not going to be anywhere advanced enough to engage in air combat against human pilots any time soon.

That removes pretty much all the justification for using an air superiority fighter chassis as the basis for an UCAV, since you are going to be paying a lot in terms of costs for performance you are simply not going to be able to use.

To do what they depicted would only be useful if one wanted to make a high performance target drone to really test your missiles. But even then the Flanker would make an uneconomic choice when there are plenty of J7s they could convert instead.
 
SinoSoldier

SinoSoldier

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plawolf said:
Pure fan fiction.

AI is not going to be anywhere advanced enough to engage in air combat against human pilots any time soon.

That removes pretty much all the justification for using an air superiority fighter chassis as the basis for an UCAV, since you are going to be paying a lot in terms of costs for performance you are simply not going to be able to use.

To do what they depicted would only be useful if one wanted to make a high performance target drone to really test your missiles. But even then the Flanker would make an uneconomic choice when there are plenty of J7s they could convert instead.
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Fair enough, but what if it was controlled by an operator rather than an EDI-like artificial intelligence network?
 
TerraN_EmpirE

TerraN_EmpirE

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SinoSoldier said:
Fair enough, but what if it was controlled by an operator rather than an EDI-like artificial intelligence network?
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Ever notice how most drones are subsonic conventional configuration or flying wings? That's for stability. Remote control needs a antenna to be pointed to either a relay satellite or the control dish. If you make to sharp a turn or drifts off alignment the drone is basically lobotomized. It will either start maneuvering to try and reestablish contact or just keep on the same input it last received and in the case of a high maneuver probably end up a crater.
 
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