Chinese UAV/UCAV development

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plawolf

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Bit of a crazy idea, but I wonder if China’s upcoming solar power station plan might have application for UAVs.

Provided they can minimise the power receiver sufficiently, beaming power to high flying UAVs would essentially be little different to how part of the power station would work anyways, which is to transmit wireless energy from orbit to airships stationed in the stratosphere to subsequently transmit power to the ground. You will just cut out the need to further pass on the power to the ground.

Imagine UAV/UCAVs getting orbital wireless chargers and essentially gaining unlimited flight time and range.

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plawolf said:
Bit of a crazy idea, but I wonder if China’s upcoming solar power station plan might have application for UAVs.

Provided they can minimise the power receiver sufficiently, beaming power to high flying UAVs would essentially be little different to how part of the power station would work anyways, which is to transmit wireless energy from orbit to airships stationed in the stratosphere to subsequently transmit power to the ground. You will just cut out the need to further pass on the power to the ground.

Imagine UAV/UCAVs getting orbital wireless chargers and essentially gaining unlimited flight time and range.

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Depending on how large of a diameter the microwave beam is when it reaches Earth maybe powering drone swarm is a good application. Imagine if it is around 1-5 sq kilometers across. Any drone flying within the target area could be powered.
 
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That's a BZK-005 with a SAR radar, first spotted back in 2020.

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Recently AVIC's Helicopter Design Institute conducted tests of takeoff and landing on ship at sea for its "Xuange-500BJ (旋戈-500BJ)" unmanned helicopter (also known as the AR-500 series). This success is considered as a "major breakthrough" of the 5 year long project.

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近日，航空工业直升机所研制的“旋戈”-500BJ舰载无人直升机平台顺利完成了船载试飞试验。
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在此次海上示范运行中，“旋戈”-500BJ顺利完成了舰面起降等飞行科目，标志着该型无人直升机研制取得了新的重要突破，为“旋戈”-500系列轻小型无人直升机系统走向深海夯实了技术基础。
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据悉，2017年，航空工业直升机所联合相关单位申报了国家重点研发计划项目。作为课题参研单位，负责完成“旋戈”-500无人直升机船载平台适应性改造和系统在地面、舰船上的测试工作。此次船载试飞试验的顺利完成，也标志着该项国家重点研发计划的重点专项课题任务圆满完成。
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[China only by now has unmanned helicopter capable of taking off and landing on ships at sea? Having seen the mockup of some unmanned helicopters on the LHD-31 Hainan, I thought it's a solved problem for long.]
 
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A team from Nankai University flew China's first jet engine powered STOVL UAV on July 22. The prototype can lift up to 100kg of payload.

This STOVL aircraft does not have rotors and wings. It is powered by "4 to 8 small diesel turbojet engines" [The flown prototype and the design schematic both show 4 engines.]

The flight control system and thrust vectoring system are indigenously developed in house. The lead designer expects to work on adding features such as target search and tracking, drone swarm control, etc.

[Speaking of drone swarm, we have seen this technology from Zhejiang University a couple of months ago. Just imagine the result of these two works combined.]

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天津7月22日电 (孙玲玲 乔仁铭)近日，中国自主研发首款垂直起降喷气动力飞行器在天津试飞成功。据悉，这款由南开大学人工智能学院段峰教授团队研发的飞行器载重量可达100公斤，填补了中国垂直起降喷气式动力飞行器设计及控制领域的空白。

据介绍，与大众常见的电力飞行器相比，该垂直起降喷气动力飞行器使用柴油，机身没有设计旋翼及外部机翼，利用4至8个小型涡喷发动机作为动力来源，机身加载自主研发的推力矢量系统和飞行器控制系统，具有动力强、速度快、可垂直起降等优势。
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“未来，这款垂直起降喷气动力飞行器有望应用于空中人员运送领域，比如：复杂地理环境救援、城市急救等情况。”段峰介绍，垂直起降喷气动力飞行器可搭载协同搜索识别定位与目标跟踪技术、无人机编队控制技术等多项关键技术，可具备高动态无人飞行器间智能协同作业能力。

据了解，重大自然灾害常常伴随着交通中断、物资短缺以及复杂恶劣的救援环境等，如何确保灾区受伤人员在“白金10分钟，黄金1小时”内得到有效救治，以及如何将救援物资快速准确地运送至受灾区域，是救援救灾一直以来亟须解决的问题。

据段峰介绍，传统小型旋翼飞行器载重小，只能携带少量物资，而载重大的直升机起降需要开阔地形。此次试飞的垂直起降喷气动力飞行器，可以解决这两大难题，其100公斤的载重量甚至可以运输伤员等。(完)
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See also a short clip of the flight video embedded here (Chrome works better for me):
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SanWenYu said:
A team from Nankai University flew China's first jet engine powered STOVL UAV on July 22. The prototype can lift up to 100kg of payload.

This STOVL aircraft does not have rotors and wings. It is powered by "4 to 8 small diesel turbojet engines" [The flown prototype and the design schematic both show 4 engines.]

The flight control system and thrust vectoring system are indigenously developed in house. The lead designer expects to work on adding features such as target search and tracking, drone swarm control, etc.

[Speaking of drone swarm, we have seen this technology from Zhejiang University a couple of months ago. Just imagine the result of these two works combined.]

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If they could increase its payload then they could also adapt this for logistics.
Put a pallet on it, and put whatever you want on top for quick and flexible logistic deliveries
 
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