Chinese UAV/UCAV development

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taxiya

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This is strange. It says that China-Pak-Turkey are working together on a joint unmanned drone program that features Loyal Wingman UCAVs.
Allegedly they have confirmed it with "official sources".

I can believe a China-Pak collaboration, but I doubt the inclusion of Turkey which is a NATO member country
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It is the post from a Pakistani guy. You know many Pakistanis love Turkey so much that they really wish China would love the Turks as they do. But China is looking at Turkey through a different lens.

That being said, it is not unimaginable that China work with Turkey to some degree. Like it or not, Turkey is an influential country in the region. If Russia keeps its weapon sales to Vietnam and India, why shouldn't China extend its influence in Turkey? It all depend on how things develop, how every player acts.

I would say that what the post says is unlikely but not impossible.

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China's possible work with Turkey is not much about NATO, it is to extend China's own influence in the region pretty much like US accepting Turkey into NATO not initially but after Turkey joined Korean war on the US side.
 
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taxiya said:
It is the post from a Pakistani guy. You know many Pakistanis love Turkey so much that they really wish China would love the Turks as they do. But China is looking at Turkey through a different lens.

That being said, it is not unimaginable that China work with Turkey to some degree. Like it or not, Turkey is an influential country in the region. If Russia keeps its weapon sales to Vietnam and India, why shouldn't China extend its influence in Turkey? It all depend on how things develop, how every player acts.

I would say that what the post says is unlikely but not impossible.
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Right. The news is unlikely but not impossible. Let's not forget that China wished to export HQ-9 to Turkey back when it was the top of the line SAM for the PLA. It isn't like China has an arms embargo policy against them.

That said, take everything from Pakistanis Twitter with a huge grain of salt. If they are to believed Pakistan should be operating 200 J-16s/J-15s by now.
 
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taxiya said:
It is the post from a Pakistani guy. You know many Pakistanis love Turkey so much that they really wish China would love the Turks as they do. But China is looking at Turkey through a different lens.

That being said, it is not unimaginable that China work with Turkey to some degree. Like it or not, Turkey is an influential country in the region. If Russia keeps its weapon sales to Vietnam and India, why shouldn't China extend its influence in Turkey? It all depend on how things develop, how every player acts.

I would say that what the post says is unlikely but not impossible.

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China's possible work with Turkey is not much about NATO, it is to extend China's own influence in the region pretty much like US accepting Turkey into NATO not initially but after Turkey joined Korean war on the US side.
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siegecrossbow said:
Right. The news is unlikely but not impossible. Let's not forget that China wished to export HQ-9 to Turkey back when it was the top of the line SAM for the PLA. It isn't like China has an arms embargo policy against them.

That said, take everything from Pakistanis Twitter with a huge grain of salt. If they are to believed Pakistan should be operating 200 J-16s/J-15s by now.
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Not far fetched indeed. The J600T and Kasirga are Chinese designs and the Bora perhaps too (M20).
 
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I don't have access to the paper, but the illustrations seem to depict an expendable drone that can be released from helicopters, airplanes, or maybe even larger drones. I can't be sure, but it doesn't appear to be powered or have its own targeting system, so I assume it's controlled remotely – basically acting as flying pylons.

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