Mystery air vehicles
- Thread starter planeman
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Thanks Player. The lower one is definately a UAV. In fact someone on another forum has already pointed me to it; it's the "Shark" UAV:
Sadly I don't read chinese... Is it in production/service?
Come on guys, this is supposed to be where the Sino military experts hang out; what is the first one of?
Sadly I don't read chinese... Is it in production/service?
Come on guys, this is supposed to be where the Sino military experts hang out; what is the first one of?
renmin
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Well it says here, it weighs 100 pounds, can fly up to 4000 meters as max altitude. It was designed by Chengdu Air Corp. same company that designed J-10. The First picture looks like some sort of trainer. It must be a new trainer design, and the people are being briefed on the model.
yeah, the First picture looks like the Hongdu L-15 or the Russian Yak-130 trainer.
thanks. Are there any other performance stats? things like endurance, speeds, stalling speed, range etc etc.renmin said:
Re the "model" aircraft. They certainly aren't L-15/Yaks as they have canards and delta wings - which are not really optimum for trainer aircraft either. I don't think the canards can move suggesting these are just models rather than flying air vehicles.
Any more info?
bTW, they look like they could represent the "J-xx" and appear to have the outline of a weapons bay under the fuselage.
If I were to guess, the first photo are scaled-down aircraft models assembled on-site for mock air base, used for training purposes.
It's much cheaper to use smaller-sized models than full-sized models, or the real thing. Less realistic but easier to take apart and move around. Need an extra mock airfield with 20 planes on the ground? No problem... setup in 3 hours.
It's much cheaper to use smaller-sized models than full-sized models, or the real thing. Less realistic but easier to take apart and move around. Need an extra mock airfield with 20 planes on the ground? No problem... setup in 3 hours.
