Chinese UAV/UCAV development

vincent said:

No, the whole idea of the UAVs being used for lasing targets for DF-15 is retarded. They will not survived in areas where the enemy still has anti-air capability and to have DF-15 relying on them for targeting means the missiles will become useless if the UAVs are shot down.

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Would such drones be helpful in case Beidou is rendered unavailable?

ACuriousPLAFan said:

Would such drones be helpful in case Beidou is rendered unavailable?

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Does ROC have the ability to jam all GPS systems? PLAAF can use HARM on the jammers if they do. DF missiles still have inertial guidance system to fall back.

It is a lot easier for ROC to shoot down a drone.

vincent said:

Does ROC have the ability to jam all GPS systems? PLAAF can use HARM on the jammers if they do. DF missiles still have inertial guidance system to fall back.

It is a lot easier for ROC to shoot down a drone.

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Alright, thanks!

vincent said:

Does ROC have the ability to jam all GPS systems?

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No, but US might.

And from the stuff we're witnessing coming out of Ukraine, they're absolutely not above using any means necessary short of nukes (even this is flimsy without ratifying NFU) to deny China any meaningful advantage as long as they can claim plausible deniability. A taiwan contingency then is going to make today's conflict look like child's play. Oh, you think squads utilizing DJI drones is next gen. warfare? Wait till drone swarms with a full spectrum of dedicated warfare capabilities enter the picture.

While I don't deny UAVs are susceptible to anti-air/hacking, I also don't think utilizing C4ISR drones functioning as failsafe measures absent SATCOM is all that controversial. Infantries today are still operating WW2 comm. sets under such assumptions and to conceal their location. For all we know, this test for DF-15s could be a foundation for longer range DFs with the goal to push the envelope of the A2D bubble beyond 2IC. is already pre-sighted in recent literature btw.

To that end, I also think Type 076 UAV-carrier interoperability bears looking into.

Addendum: Chinese hypersonics on conventional carriers

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theforgotten0007 said:

Addendum: Chinese hypersonics on conventional carriers

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Old article. Already posted a few months ago in the hypersonic thread afaik

A press release about a new R&D base being built for unmanned intelligent systems.

1月10日，我航九院航天飞鸿公司在内蒙古包头举办航天时代飞鸿测试技术有限公司、无人智能系统研练基地揭牌仪式。航天飞鸿测试公司由九院航天飞鸿公司与内蒙古包头市达茂旗共同出资成立，该基地试验区占地7000余亩，将打造成为集无人智能系统研练、试验鉴定、科研试飞、培训、维修保障以及其他衍生业务于一体的综合性试验基地。在我国无人机行业当中，科研院所自主运营研练基地尚属首次...

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On January 10, in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, the Aerospace Feihong Company of the Ninth Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology held the unveiling ceremony of Aerospace Times Feihong Testing Technology Co., Ltd. and the unmanned intelligent system research and development base. Aerospace Feihong Testing Company was jointly established by Aerospace Feihong Company of the Ninth Academy and Damao Banner of Baotou City, Inner Mongolia. The test area of the base covers an area of more than 1155 acres. A comprehensive test base integrating maintenance support and other derivative businesses. In my country's drone industry, it is the first time that a research institute independently operates a training base.

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Well ... finally again at least "something" on this mysterious "bird". So far - besides the demonstrator from Nov. 2013 we haven't seen any "real" GJ-11 - all have been mock-ups of some sort. I'm most surprised that we have at least some grainy images from all mayor operational types, all but the GJ-11 since if reports are true, it was said to be in service since at least late 2019... but still we don't have even an image of the true prototypes.

A suicide drone from Hunan Ordnance Group.