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Is there someone knowledgeable about jet RC planes that can speak about this little turbojet SW800Pro? How come both US techbro turned MIC and Russian MIC are buying it to fit them into weapons? Is there some combination of specs that make this particular make attractive?

From a cursory search on alibaba it seems to be popular in RC hobby and is on the larger end of hobby grade turbojet, but is there anything else to it?

Here's the company website and specs:

It's the second largest engine the company makes, there's one larger one that has 120kg of thrust compared to this at 80kg.

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Is there someone knowledgeable about jet RC planes that can speak about this little turbojet SW800Pro? How come both US techbro turned MIC and Russian MIC are buying it to fit them into weapons? Is there some combination of specs that make this particular make attractive?

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Much of it is simply down to tech parity, production ability/volume, lead times and direct to consumer sales.

Chinese turbojets are cheaper than western alternatives, they have similar technological levels (specific fuel consumption, thrust, pumps, digital ecus etc etc) at almost half the cost in some cases. They are sold direct to customer instead of through things like dealerships lol, the companies have ability to churn out engines because they have automated production facilities so bulk orders are even better with Chinese manufacturers. They have basically no lead times.

Writing all this down you just notice that its all the same industrial and manufacturing advantage China has in every other industry applied to turbojets.