Chinese UAV/UCAV development
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That's interesting. It looks like it has a wing on top. I wonder if it's a box wing design like a minature Soar Dragon.
AssassinsMace
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Huitong made an updated entry saying the UAV is a variant of the BZK-009/WZ-9. He mentioned the Soar Dragon but didn't clarify if it had a box wing design.
^ More importantly, the wings are high mounted, which I have not seen on any uav before
So there are three global hawk esque HALE's that we've seen over the last few year
this, mini global hawk
this, a seemingly fully global hawk sized uav, the box winged xianglong
and now this uav with high mounted and swept wings
So there are three global hawk esque HALE's that we've seen over the last few year
this, mini global hawk
this, a seemingly fully global hawk sized uav, the box winged xianglong
and now this uav with high mounted and swept wings
It looks like a sino-version of the Predator C prototype in overall configuration (mid wing layout, engine and v-tail, as well as overall size) which is designed to carry a larger weapons payload than the Reaper and/or carry weapons internally to maximise stealth when attacking high value targets
thank you for bringing that up
so that's the familiar feeling when i recalled something similar looking to it, and it does look like the Predator C, except for the high mounted wing
edit : now that you have mentioned it, (again!) looking at the blurry picture, it seems to be a mid wing config,
it would perhaps not be the right place to mount wing that high at that position or the illusion of it
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