Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
New amphibious UAV tested already.This would be perfect to supple the isolated island with medicine and other essential. But the main impetus for this cargo UAV is not military but to facilitate cheaper alternative to ground transport and reaching the difficult location. Apparently the networks are already in operation quick
From Henri K blog
The "war" of drones, or simply unmanned aircraft of any kind, with a certain level of intelligence, between technological powers is reflected not only in the multiplication of drones in the military domain but also and especially in democratization and the integration of drone into our daily lives, both in scope and depth.
In addition to automated production facilities such as robots and conveyors, which frees maneuvers from repetitive, dangerous or low-skill tasks, the logistics domain that conditions the fluidity of industrial chains to the hands of consumers is one of the areas where the use of drone attracts major players in China.
The small cargo drone "JDrone" (Photos: Agence Xinhua)
After Amazon, which delivered its first delivery of a package of less than 25 kg with a rotary wing drone in December 2016, Jingdong, a Chinese company that has a B2C online sales platform and nearly 60,000 employees just on its distribution network, .
The Chinese company plans to open 150 drone landing sites in a single Sichuan province within three years.
SF Express, the second largest postal service operator after the China Post and employing 400,000 employees, is also investing heavily in research and development of a billion cargo drone.
It is the first logistics player in China that has obtained the official license to fly over a drone in Chinese airspace, issued by the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese Army and valid within a radius of 100 km around the city of Ganzhou.
In July this year, SF Express flies an amphibious drone with a carrying capacity of 250 kg, with a range of 10 hours in flight.
Another SF Express drone project launched by SF Express in 2015, capable of transporting up to a ton of cargo, and in collaboration with Xianyang Pianzhuan, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the CETC electronic group and the Chinese aircraft manufacturer AVIC, also to make its inaugural flight this month.
This 3,395-kilogram MTOW drone, transformed from a single-engined PAC 750XL turboprop monoplane , has just .
Measuring 11.84 meters long and with a wingspan of 12.8 meters, this future SF Express freighter drone has an autonomy of 2,183 km or 8 hours in flight.
The future cargo drone of SF Express, with a capacity of 1 000 kg.
According to the statement of the Chinese giant in distribution, more than 80% of delivery volume still focuses on the east coast of the country, where the economic and demographic development is the densest. Despite its thirty freight aircraft and a very large fleet of ground and river resources, SF Express indicates that there are still very difficult areas of access in China.
For example, transporting a Chengdu to Panzhihua parcel over a 500 km flight is now taking between 12 to 15 hours by road, and it will take less than 3 hours to deliver even parcels by a cargo drone.
Drones thus reduce not only the duration and the expenditure in the field of distribution, but above all to free geographical constraints and thus contribute to growth by domestic consumption and absorb a part of overcapacity of production in China .
This explains why the drone has just been included in the "National Plan for Development and Planning of Artificial Intelligence of New Generation" ( 新一代 人工智能 发展 规划) , published in early July by the Chinese State Council.
With more than 30 billion express parcels delivered in 2016, this gigantic well-protected market of foreign players and high growth potential also brings to light many Startup projects of cargo drone, bigger (in size) to each other.
For example, the FM-15 drone of the startup with a mass of 5,500 kg on take-off. Modified from a former Chinese Y-5B biplane , the drone has a comfortable volume of 11.8 m3 for cargo and a carrying capacity of 1500 kg, making it the largest cargo drone in China.
According to its CEO, QI Feng, a 30-year-old young woman who has already launched a multi-rotor civilian drone project, FM-15's business model is based on an online capacity sharing platform. the company intends to offer a turnkey "turnkey kit" to convert other aircraft from general aviation to a transport drone.
QI also took the example of transporting parcels from Chengdu to Panzhihua, indicating that truck operating costs are around 7 yuan (€ 0.89) per tonne, whereas for a cargo drone, which is flying for a distance of 352 km, this cost is only 5,12 yuan (0,65 €), a considerable decrease of 27%.
From Henri K blog
The "war" of drones, or simply unmanned aircraft of any kind, with a certain level of intelligence, between technological powers is reflected not only in the multiplication of drones in the military domain but also and especially in democratization and the integration of drone into our daily lives, both in scope and depth.
In addition to automated production facilities such as robots and conveyors, which frees maneuvers from repetitive, dangerous or low-skill tasks, the logistics domain that conditions the fluidity of industrial chains to the hands of consumers is one of the areas where the use of drone attracts major players in China.
The small cargo drone "JDrone" (Photos: Agence Xinhua)
After Amazon, which delivered its first delivery of a package of less than 25 kg with a rotary wing drone in December 2016, Jingdong, a Chinese company that has a B2C online sales platform and nearly 60,000 employees just on its distribution network, .
The Chinese company plans to open 150 drone landing sites in a single Sichuan province within three years.
SF Express, the second largest postal service operator after the China Post and employing 400,000 employees, is also investing heavily in research and development of a billion cargo drone.
It is the first logistics player in China that has obtained the official license to fly over a drone in Chinese airspace, issued by the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese Army and valid within a radius of 100 km around the city of Ganzhou.
In July this year, SF Express flies an amphibious drone with a carrying capacity of 250 kg, with a range of 10 hours in flight.
Another SF Express drone project launched by SF Express in 2015, capable of transporting up to a ton of cargo, and in collaboration with Xianyang Pianzhuan, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the CETC electronic group and the Chinese aircraft manufacturer AVIC, also to make its inaugural flight this month.
This 3,395-kilogram MTOW drone, transformed from a single-engined PAC 750XL turboprop monoplane , has just .
Measuring 11.84 meters long and with a wingspan of 12.8 meters, this future SF Express freighter drone has an autonomy of 2,183 km or 8 hours in flight.
The future cargo drone of SF Express, with a capacity of 1 000 kg.
According to the statement of the Chinese giant in distribution, more than 80% of delivery volume still focuses on the east coast of the country, where the economic and demographic development is the densest. Despite its thirty freight aircraft and a very large fleet of ground and river resources, SF Express indicates that there are still very difficult areas of access in China.
For example, transporting a Chengdu to Panzhihua parcel over a 500 km flight is now taking between 12 to 15 hours by road, and it will take less than 3 hours to deliver even parcels by a cargo drone.
Drones thus reduce not only the duration and the expenditure in the field of distribution, but above all to free geographical constraints and thus contribute to growth by domestic consumption and absorb a part of overcapacity of production in China .
This explains why the drone has just been included in the "National Plan for Development and Planning of Artificial Intelligence of New Generation" ( 新一代 人工智能 发展 规划) , published in early July by the Chinese State Council.
With more than 30 billion express parcels delivered in 2016, this gigantic well-protected market of foreign players and high growth potential also brings to light many Startup projects of cargo drone, bigger (in size) to each other.
For example, the FM-15 drone of the startup with a mass of 5,500 kg on take-off. Modified from a former Chinese Y-5B biplane , the drone has a comfortable volume of 11.8 m3 for cargo and a carrying capacity of 1500 kg, making it the largest cargo drone in China.
According to its CEO, QI Feng, a 30-year-old young woman who has already launched a multi-rotor civilian drone project, FM-15's business model is based on an online capacity sharing platform. the company intends to offer a turnkey "turnkey kit" to convert other aircraft from general aviation to a transport drone.
QI also took the example of transporting parcels from Chengdu to Panzhihua, indicating that truck operating costs are around 7 yuan (€ 0.89) per tonne, whereas for a cargo drone, which is flying for a distance of 352 km, this cost is only 5,12 yuan (0,65 €), a considerable decrease of 27%.
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