Chinese UAV/UCAV development
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This has been practice for the last half century and more in the better aircraft plants. But I got an anecdote of the front part of a Meteor fighter being built by Fokker in the early '50's being 2cm too large all round for the fuselage coming behind, being made to fit by a man with a rubber hammer and similar tools. It was told by the man would ordered the work and didn't look to see it done.That would have taken away life time to that part, but these aircraft often make emergency wheel up landings into meadows when that part was damaged anyway.
SinoSoldier
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Re: New Chinese UAV
Is this an armed variant of the Xianglong UAV? The body looks exactly the same.
There is also a jet powered delta winged UCAV under development or testing, supposedly called the Thunderbolt UCAV. This is the world's first air support UCAV and is armed with the Ba-7 missile.
Please provide more info if you have any.
Unnamed UAV with TY-90 and some sort of air to ground missile
Is this an armed variant of the Xianglong UAV? The body looks exactly the same.
There is also a jet powered delta winged UCAV under development or testing, supposedly called the Thunderbolt UCAV. This is the world's first air support UCAV and is armed with the Ba-7 missile.
Please provide more info if you have any.
Re: New Chinese UAV
Nah it isn't. I think this particular UAV was at a display for an optics company's stand. It was the avionics package rather than the aircraft itself that was the main focus, I believe.
And the Reaper ucav has already supported ground troops with its strike ability... the only difference between an air support ucav, if there is such a thing, and a normal strike ucav is that the former requires friendly ground troops to act in concert. So really there's no such thing as an air support ucav...
Nah it isn't. I think this particular UAV was at a display for an optics company's stand. It was the avionics package rather than the aircraft itself that was the main focus, I believe.
And the Reaper ucav has already supported ground troops with its strike ability... the only difference between an air support ucav, if there is such a thing, and a normal strike ucav is that the former requires friendly ground troops to act in concert. So really there's no such thing as an air support ucav...
plawolf
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I wonder how long it will be until man-portable datalinks are introduced for ground forces.
If you can have a secure datalink, and a small portable device, like a hardened tablet computer or even something as small as an iphone (maybe with a wired connection to the backpack squad tac radio) that can receive real time telemetry from an overhead UAV, it would be a massive help for ground forces to have a real time bird's eye view of their immediate battlefield.
From there, its only a small step to allow the troops on the ground to also upload data to the UAV, like selecting a location/target they want to hit, and all the UAV control would need to do is steer the crosshairs onto the flashing marker on screen and press the big red button.
This should be far more efficient than the current close air support arrangement, as it will massively reduce the reaction time as well as further reduce the possibility or friendly fire incidents arising from miscommunication/misinterpretation of co-ordinates.
This sort of thing should be easily achievable with even commercially available equipment. Its a wonder why the US or British have not yielded something like this already.
If you can have a secure datalink, and a small portable device, like a hardened tablet computer or even something as small as an iphone (maybe with a wired connection to the backpack squad tac radio) that can receive real time telemetry from an overhead UAV, it would be a massive help for ground forces to have a real time bird's eye view of their immediate battlefield.
From there, its only a small step to allow the troops on the ground to also upload data to the UAV, like selecting a location/target they want to hit, and all the UAV control would need to do is steer the crosshairs onto the flashing marker on screen and press the big red button.
This should be far more efficient than the current close air support arrangement, as it will massively reduce the reaction time as well as further reduce the possibility or friendly fire incidents arising from miscommunication/misinterpretation of co-ordinates.
This sort of thing should be easily achievable with even commercially available equipment. Its a wonder why the US or British have not yielded something like this already.
Are we sure it's not a whale or sea serpent or something in the water instead? 
Good catch though. I think it looks more like a rotary winged uav than fixed, and doesn't seem to resemble any other chopper uav we've seen at arms shows yet.
Looks a bit like S-100 at this distance.
Good catch though. I think it looks more like a rotary winged uav than fixed, and doesn't seem to resemble any other chopper uav we've seen at arms shows yet.
Looks a bit like S-100 at this distance.
Geographer
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Who took that photo of the UAV above the ship?
The JMSDF, who were sent to shadow the PLAN.
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