Chinese UAV/UCAV development

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Wingloon-1E at Zhuhai.

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Blitzo said:
6.2t MTOW, 2t external payload and 300kg internal payload

over 10,000km range
over 40 hour endurance


Now, this is a proper MALE UAV that is actually worthwhile for the PLA to procure in large numbers.

Previously, GJ-1/2 (WL-1/2) were all somewhat average. But now this thing really has the true potential to be a proper big boy MALE UAV with multirole applications from standard long endurance ISR and hunter killer, to strike, to EW, to BACN, to ASW.... all enabled by its large size and payload of course.
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oh yes, I love it. That's enough range and payload for pretty much any mission within first island chain. They could even use it to attack Guam if they are really adventurous. Wow, this thing is crazily capable.

btw, saw the PL-10E hanging there. That's kind of interesting. Could be used to target other drones and helicopters I guess.
 
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by78 said:
Swarm loitering munitions.

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Yeah, this is what guancha crowd was talking about. All about numbers when it comes to mass drone swarming attacks. Not only this and also the defense against it. That's why you need systems that can launch 18 of them per vehicles and systems that can do both soft kill and have 48 missiles to counter them.
 
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tphuang said:
Yeah, this is what guancha crowd was talking about. All about numbers when it comes to mass drone swarming attacks. Not only this and also the defense against it. That's why you need systems that can launch 18 of them per vehicles and systems that can do both soft kill and have 48 missiles to counter them.
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It's all about detection on the defense tho, I'd argue that you don't want too many missiles on one platform but rather distributed such that you won't lose a lot of expensive munitions if for whatever reason the radar is off as we've seen happen more than a few times recently.
 
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