Chinese UAV/UCAV development

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advill

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All BIG birds look good. However, even with their stealth configuration, wouldn't they be easy targets for missiles to bring them down? Iran claimed (as reported in int'l media) that it had brought down 2 conventional (if I am not wrong) American UAVs that intruded into its airspace for reconnaissance purposes. Enlighten me anyone on BIG birds' stealth/protective measures? Thanks.



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Technology of exisiting and future Stealth UAV compared:
Top to bottom: X-47B, nEUROn, Chinese UAV (estimation), Mikoyan Skat and DRDO (India) Aura
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latenlazy said:
Yes, but triangulation actually requires that you know where to look. Objects outside the overlapped detection space will go unnoticed. Furthermore, that strategy would depend on a good data link and the right recognition algorithms. It works in theory, but it can get complicated in practice.
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My idea is more complicated but isn't JSF tech already laying the groundwork? Personally I don't think stealth fighters are 100% undetectable at a reasonable distance. I don't know how radar bounces off stealth but they're going somewhere and the other UAVs might be able know just by detecting the radar bounce off since all them will be connected. You may not be able to lock-on but they'll be something to start with and the AEW UAVs and whatever else will come in and swarm.
 
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AssassinsMace said:
My idea is more complicated but isn't JSF tech already laying the groundwork? Personally I don't think stealth fighters are 100% undetectable at a reasonable distance. I don't know how radar bounces off stealth but they're going somewhere and the other UAVs might be able know just by detecting the radar bounce off since all them will be connected. You may not be able to lock-on but they'll be something to start with and the AEW UAVs and whatever else will come in and swarm.
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You're right about detectability, and the US is indeed laying the groundwork on that with an integrated systems approach. I'm not in disagreement with the idea, but I think my primary emphasis was the complexity of the execution, as the software side of things can get tricky.
 
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no_name said:
So the UAV has already had first flight? Was it done outside Chengdu because there was no pics.
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According to the news, CAC works together with Guizhou Aviation Industry Import/Export Company (
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) at Yun-nan/Guizhou plateau. The plateau laid on Yun-nan and Guizhou provinces south of Sichuan province which capital, Chengdu, CAC located.

Since the population density on the plateau is far less than Sichuan province which 100 million people live, the test flights of unmanned vehicle is safer there, unlike the manned J-20 and J-10 conduct tests at populated Chengdu plain.
 
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T-U-P

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Never mind the lack of flying pictures, I don't think we've ever seen it with landing gears. Surely something that size is not being catapulted into air.
 
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Fu Wen Shi

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Is this pic above the Chinese version of the X-47?
Is China developing such UCAV anyway? I mean, they just landed their first manned aircraft on a carrier, so maybe they want first master this, before they concentrate on unmanned carrier-landings.
 
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