Some images first posted by =GT over at CDF
That firstpicture is very interesting... it looks to me like the wing of a flying wing uav/ucav possibly? I hope I'm not being too fanboy-ish here, but I can't imagine what else that sort of wing could be used for. SAC is working on an X-47B/45 type UCAV as well.
From that picture, the aircraft it would reside on I imagine would compare pretty favourably to the X-47B.
The other small vtol uav is pretty cool too, and looks a pretty solid design unlike the recent "helicopter uav" which just seemed cobbled together.
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Here's some pics of an X-47B/45 style UCAV concept model called "warrior eagel" seen at zhuhai 2008. Interestingly it was not seen at last year's zhuhai, as well as a number of notable other concepts and models like the global hawk clones, and dark sword among others. I've thought that could be because either those were concepts/proposals that didn't go through or were cancelled... or that they were more "strategic" or generally more "secretive" than others (meaning more likely to enter service to the pla in some form). The pterosaur or Ch-3 and WJ-600, all of which seemed destined for export.
That firstpicture is very interesting... it looks to me like the wing of a flying wing uav/ucav possibly? I hope I'm not being too fanboy-ish here, but I can't imagine what else that sort of wing could be used for. SAC is working on an X-47B/45 type UCAV as well.
From that picture, the aircraft it would reside on I imagine would compare pretty favourably to the X-47B.
The other small vtol uav is pretty cool too, and looks a pretty solid design unlike the recent "helicopter uav" which just seemed cobbled together.
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Here's some pics of an X-47B/45 style UCAV concept model called "warrior eagel" seen at zhuhai 2008. Interestingly it was not seen at last year's zhuhai, as well as a number of notable other concepts and models like the global hawk clones, and dark sword among others. I've thought that could be because either those were concepts/proposals that didn't go through or were cancelled... or that they were more "strategic" or generally more "secretive" than others (meaning more likely to enter service to the pla in some form). The pterosaur or Ch-3 and WJ-600, all of which seemed destined for export.
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