Chinese UCAV/CCA/flying wing drones (ISR, A2A, A2G) thread

[ACuriousPLAFan]

The largest hangar is only 75m wide, accounting into doors and what not the largest aircraft you could fit inside realistically is going to be only 65-70m wide. It's more likely they are used for more mundane uses like solar powered aircraft.

What kind of solar-powered (unmanned) aircraft would require a 75-meter wide hangar that is of military nature?

Perhaps that's meant to fit two (or more) smaller aircrafts parked side-by-side inside the hangar? Or whether that structure is actually a hangar to begin with?

 

[Deino]

Comparison of GJ-X overlaid upon Malan base with GJ-11s off to the side.

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Really strange ... since a few weeks I constantly become this warning from "X" as if I#m not old enough to see such posts

 

[Blitzo]

Really strange ... since a few weeks I constantly become this warning from "X" as if I#m not old enough to see such posts

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For some reason that post is considered sensitive, but all you need to do is accept lol


In a y case, GJ-11 looks positively tiny compared to GJ-X

 

[vincent]

What kind of solar-powered (unmanned) aircraft would require a 75-meter wide hangar that is of military nature?

Perhaps that's meant to fit two (or more) smaller aircrafts parked side-by-side inside the hangar? Or whether that structure is actually a hangar to begin with?

 

[ACuriousPLAFan]

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Huh. Is this photo confirmed to be taken at Malan, and is the UAV confirmed to be military?

 

[vincent]

Huh. Is this photo confirmed to be taken at Malan, and is the UAV confirmed to be military?

Just an idea.

 

[Tomboy]

Huh. Is this photo confirmed to be taken at Malan, and is the UAV confirmed to be military?

CASIC has been working on these, they flew a 45m span demo sometimes back

 

[zyklon]

China is absolutely lapping the US not just once. The US hasn't even got a single stealth strike UAV even of medium range yet. They want their tiny CCAs to perform strike. Probably smarter than getting those jokes (college level projects) to perform air superiority. Chinese UADFs are supersonic and use 140KN engines while US CCAs that are still just getting into flight testing are using 30KN engines or less. Within 10 years China would be 1 generation ahead of the US in manned air superiority and 2.5 generations ahead in unmanned. It's already 1.5 generation ahead of US in unmanned.

According to the grapevine, the US has at least one uncrewed, presumably "full sized," strike platform that has already progressed fairly far along. Might have test flown already.

However, this program is also reportedly what incurred a

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for Lockheed last quarter. Nevertheless, Lockheed CEO James Taiclet remains quite excited about things:

This is a highly classified program that can only be described as game-changing capability for our joint US and international customers. And therefore, it is critical that it be successfully fielded.

 

[00CuriousObserver]

The Guancha Gang mentioned in the podcast immediately after the discovery of WZ-X that the drone testing and evaluation base at Malan actually has multiple massive hangars with large main spans (widths). They described the spans of those hangars as "shocking".

So, yeah, there can be quite some "out-of-the-blue" moments for us outsiders and normies alike to be expected, particularly since December 2024.

Would you mind sharing the timestamp? I can't seem to find it.

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Rough comparison with H-6 and Y-20, found on Weibo.

 

[mack8]

So what would a weight guesstimate be for this thing? I see the B-21 is listed as 80 tons, even assuming for a sec the GJ-X is a tad smaller, it might still be something like 60-70 tons full? And what about the WZ-X, that would be say 50-60 tons?