Chinese UAV/UCAV development

Blitzo said:

The conventional global hawk esque shaped UAV is Wing Loong-10 also known as Cloud Shadow.
The flying wing UAV may be new, it looks slightly different from the Tianying flying wing UAV we've seen before which was a similar size but had a continuous leading edge.

It looks like a slightly upsized Cloud Shadow-550T UAV

Neither of them are that exciting.
Obviously the Cloud Shadow itself is not new.
And for the flying wing, well we've seen similar sized flying wing UAVs before, and it is really too small to be that interesting beyond something that's RQ-170 level at best.

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Deino said:

In fact it looks similar in configuration but overall much larger ... on FB someone said it is CHenfei's loyal wingman UAV but I'm not sure.

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Blitzo said:

Yes, as I said, it looks slightly upsized.


But as far as flying wing UAVs go, it is still relatively small -- smaller than something like GJ-11, or however big CH-7 was meant to be.

And certainly smaller than the likes of X-47B, S-70.

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siegecrossbow said:

It’s a target drone.

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siegecrossbow said:

It’s a target drone.

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siegecrossbow said:

It’s a target drone.

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Deino said:

The small one called Cloud Shadow-550T is, but the new larger one too?

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taxiya said:

By "the new larger one" if you mean this, the inlet does not have the grid radar blocker in Cloud Shadow 550T. I think it is NOT a target drone.

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