Chinese UAV/UCAV development

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Hendrik_2000

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New photos suggest that it can also carry early-warning equipment in addition to cargo.
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Even if most focus is set on the J-10B with its thrust vectoring engine or the J-20's flight display, there have been a few other minor but nonetheless important news at Zhuhai like the Wing Loong II aka GJ-2 UCAV.

Besides the confirmation, that it is indeed in service already - as predicted in the new MCW book
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;-) - it is remarkable that its serial numbers confirm it to be assigned to the WTC UAV Brigade.

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Dfangsaur

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The Assistant AF Commander of the Royal Jordanian Air Force isn’t very happy with his Chinese CH-4B armed UAVs. The RJAF looks set to retire them. He wouldn’t elaborate on the issues.
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How credible do you guys think this is? What could be the issue if there are any?
 

Totoro

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Impossible to know. It could be anything from change of requirements, so they're not suitable anymore for required missions. To quality of the aircraft. To quality of support they're getting from china. To political issues such as third party meddling, where Jordan is "encouraged" not to cooperate with China anymore.
 

ougoah

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Impossible to know. It could be anything from change of requirements, so they're not suitable anymore for required missions. To quality of the aircraft. To quality of support they're getting from china. To political issues such as third party meddling, where Jordan is "encouraged" not to cooperate with China anymore.

Or hidden spyware. Plenty of other users of similar or same drones who are not looking to replace them. Suspect issue may be politically motivated or due to something they discovered.
 

Biscuits

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The Assistant AF Commander of the Royal Jordanian Air Force isn’t very happy with his Chinese CH-4B armed UAVs. The RJAF looks set to retire them. He wouldn’t elaborate on the issues.
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How credible do you guys think this is? What could be the issue if there are any?

Unverified twitter account with 2k followers? Sounds reliable enough...

I’d wait until an official statement arrives.

Fake posts can easily be created by rivals to try to stop defense deals or turn public opinion against them.

The CH-4 is a battle proven platform with very good record. That does not exclude the probability of being dumped due to political reason, like how Turkey was pressured into buying inferior air defenses by NATO.
 
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