Chinese UAV/UCAV development

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Synopsis with my limited understanding:

English title, "Primary Parameter Design of High Maneuverable Morphing Aircraft".

This study from SADRI (Shenyang Aircraft Design and Research Institute, aka Institute 601, affiliate of SAC/AVIC) remarks on recent advancements in "morphing aircraft" technologies and provides insights on devising design processes for parameter settings of such airframes given constraining performance requirements. To illustrate the proposed process, the article provided a sample set of requirements (shown in Table 1 and Fig 2 as by78 posted) and then solved for the remainder specifications resulting in below Table 2.
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In the position of observers, it is likely most pertinent to postulate how relevant is this "example" to potentially existing/planned programs by AVIC. It is also conceivable this is provided purely as an academic exercise. In any case this may still provide some indication of what SADRI perceives as a plausible design.

As a side note, lead author of this paper, Wang Yuhao, appears to be fairly decorated as an inventor to quite a few of SADRI's registered patents (majority for UAV applications), which likely adds credence to the paper's authority. A particularly eye-catching patent with his name is
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aircraft internal VLS system, which may have been shared elsewhere but could still be relevant in this development.
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A tandem rotor UAV flying over the grasslands. I believe the designation is ZC300, or it might be a derivative.

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Related - Tour of the Tengden TB-001 UCAV by CCTV. The most interesting part is the two showcase munitions, a loitering munition with stripes, the other without them, that they exhibited in detail, incluing the UAV wing fixing device & system. Both munitions would have deployable wings once launched. Posted by
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Interesting assertion that some 6th gen tech will be tested on H20
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I believe any country who is working on 6th-generation fighters are looking deep into AFC implementation, so it isn't really much of a surprise.

However, for the H-20... the news of the AFC tech demonstration drone just came out not even a week ago. Sure, H-20 with AFC will drastically enhance its stealth capabilities. However, it would also be a massive leap to take for the H-20 if they adopted AFC, since the AFC isn't yet mature enough for wide-scale application (or, as far as we are aware of, since the US too just tested their own AFC tech demo drone).

In short, doing so is gonna be a huge gamble for the AVIC and the PLAAF.

Do we know if the B-21 Raider has AFC? That would be a good benchmark.
 
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