Chinese UAV/UCAV development
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The Chinese texts is "临近空间". So as I understand that is above 18km from sea level. I am curious how they make piston engine and propeller work well in this altitude. I am not questioning they did.
Another thing is that I guess this is the branch of the anti-ship missile maker.
szbd
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It appears to be developed from hand throwing UAV with the regimental technical recon plaoon, dated about 10 years ago. At the time the hand throwing UAV was ASN 15. This new UAV together with the new recon vehicle it launched from, appeard in official news in 2018, this time in recon platoon of combined battalion. There are quite some UAVs of this type in China, like CH902 or so. But all in all, I don't know the designation of the ones in current service.
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A propeller can work. But as you said, the piston engine is likely to have some engineering efforts (a turbocharged piston engine, albeit small) another thing to note is the wingspan and landing gear ( it appears to be not a tricycle one but like the configuration of U2 dragonlady )
AssassinsMace
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China's drone industry has gotten more attention in the West but they still have knock it. I wouldn't call using drones on defenseless countries wartime experience. I'm sure countries that have Chinese drones are giving data back to China. How convenient they don't mention how Iran downed the US's most advanced drone.
It is a story old as time itself:
Iraqi CH-4s are grounded -- Chinese drones are crap.
Iraqi F-16s are grounded -- Iraqi air force is corrupt and Iraqi maintenance is crap.
In the unlikely event that Iraq actually buys JF-17s then we can conclude that Thunders are way superior to the F-16 Falcons if we apply the same logic.
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