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Figure: Dark Sword UAV

Chinese Academy of Engineering, the aircraft design experts Tu Jida Sichuan Science and Technology Museum opened the theme of "the development of unmanned combat aircraft," the report. He said the UAV development from the reconnaissance mission to reconnaissance, combat one. Combat zero casualties, low cost, and the weapons platform performance is unaffected by human physiological conditions. Powerful combat capability and platform advantage stems from the large number of high-tech applications. Stealth technology, the UAV formation coordinated flight, air traffic control, to avoid electronic interference judge friend or foe, casually, which is a world-class technical problems.

Our military unmanned combat aircraft, he said, is an important branch of UAVs in the latest and most advanced countries in the world are stepping up research. The development of unmanned combat aircraft to the future, will become a highly intelligent, with independent judgment and combat capabilities of the robot. "Unmanned combat aircraft fruition, we must rely on their own strength and self-reliance.

The UAV's large-scale exhibition, not only the Chinese military fans shouting enjoyable, quite unexpected foreigners. Reporter rough estimate, the morning of the first day of the exhibition opening hours, about 80 more than foreigners patronize, the random survey information from their badge and reporters of view, they came from the United States and the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Russia, Israel, Iran and other countries.

Such a dense crowd of foreign guests, the Chinese UAV to be concerned about. In UAV booth, the reporter responsible for UAV booth Wu Director chatter. According to him, China's UAV research level with the U.S. ratio not manned the gap is so big, some individual technologies even ahead.

Currently, unmanned combat aircraft of the United States stay in the verification period, including the U.S. striking x 45 unmanned combat aircraft is also stuck in the verification level. UAV technology development in China has attracted the attention of the United States and other countries, and they wanted to know the ins and outs of the UAV.

Figure: China stab UAV

Wu Director also spoke of an interesting story, and Boeing is one of the major manufacturers of unmanned aerial vehicles produced in the United States, once was surprising as they raised the possibility of the production of unmanned aerial vehicles to the Chinese company. Boeing said that the U.S. Department of Defense a group of UAVs orders, but in order to reduce procurement costs, they hope that the Chinese production UAV manufacturers to bid, the requirement is that they want to learn Chinese companies can do production capacity.

This is the actual requirements fieldwork UAV production in China, to touch the bottom of UAV technology. China apparently unable to meet Boeing's unreasonable requests for cooperation, politely refused.

Unmanned combat aircraft only appeared in recent years, the concept of the U.S. military in Afghanistan started using UAV mounted firing precision-guided weapons, the fleet of attack "terrorists" and get victories, killing a number of Taliban senior officers. Unmanned combat aircraft to break the the UAV traditional combat support role, to become a combat weapon.

UAV Western United States warned China's original dark sword not worrying move

The Japan Times, December 6 article of the guest stage Visiting Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Michael Richardson, currently the UAV competition between China and the United States has intensified, the United States X-47B UAV aircraft carrier flight deck test, while China has launched a new series of unmanned aircraft systems, "Dark Sword" UAV program most noteworthy because this supersonic air combat UAV may help the Chinese anti-ship ballistic missiles against U.S. aircraft carrier.

November 26, a bat-shape of the X-47B UAV crane above the deck of the aircraft carriers of the United States, "Truman" marks to help the United States to meet the challenge from China's growing military presence in the Asia-Pacific gamble has development to the latest order. In this regard, the article further explained that China's military is developing anti-ship ballistic missiles and other hard-to-detect weapons system, so that a U.S. aircraft carrier and its been fighters were forced to stay in a place thousands of kilometers away from the Chinese coastal areas. In response, the United States is looking for ways to expand the U.S. military firepower coverage radius, to protect U.S. troops from the threat of weapons of

November 26, X-47B tailless stealth UAV boarded the USS Truman naval base in Norfolk, Virginia, is the first unmanned combat aircraft landing aircraft carrier. The aircraft was sent to the aircraft carrier deck on the X-47B UAV is a combat oversight testing machine. Designed to complete the most difficult feats in aviation history: the completion of the takeoff and landing aircraft carrier operations at sea, and is under no pilot operation.

Figure: six generations of machines

X-47B unmanned aircraft was approximately equal to the size of fighter. However, it is controlled by a computer, designed for take-off to perform pre-programmed tasks, after the mouse under the control of the task the operator to return to base. If necessary, responsible for overseeing the operation of the X-47B UAV can also temporarily change the pre-programming tasks. However, the operator does not usually frequent control of the UAV.

The article said, in the next few weeks, have already landed in "Truman" aircraft carrier of the X-47B UAV will accept the flight deck activity test. At the same time, the second plane X-47B UAV will "touch the ship" in the land-based the analog aircraft carrier flight deck flight. The United States plans to 2013 completed independent carrier-based landing experiments rely on precise global positioning satellite and advanced avionics, capture the tail hook landing when the aircraft carrier deck arresting cable, if necessary to terminate the landing the process to take off again, re-landing process - generally goes for with manned aircraft landing process.

If all goes well, the United States since 2014 been refueling or no refueling tanker for aerial refueling test. This is a critical stage in the X-47B UAV research and development process, and since 2007, the U.S. Navy has already begun this effort, the United States has put in over eight hundred billion U.S. dollars.

X-47B unmanned aircraft crashed in testing - may be in a high risk environment HNA this situation - a catastrophic impact on the UAV project, because the United States only two demonstrator. However, once the X-47B UAV test is successful, the United States will be large-scale production of this type of land man-machine, a new stage of the naval battle will be open.

X-47B UAV resembles also developed by Northrop Grumman B-2 long-range stealth bomber. Both aircraft have no fuselage or vertical tail. They are full wing design eliminates a large number of conventional aircraft-resistance surface portion of the body. In addition, this design also reduces the surface with the edge of the part of many usually reflect the radar signal, UAV stealth ability. The X-47B is capable of carrying two tons of ammunition, the B-2 bomber payload ninth. The use of unmanned aerial vehicles, 11 aircraft carriers in the United States will be able to combat the approximately 830 km away goals. In order to avoid the UAV pilot fatigue operation, the conventional UAV mission lasted only a few hours.

Figure: China stab UAV

X-47B unmanned aircraft first flight in February 2011, the flight speed slightly lower than the speed of sound, more than six hours without refueling endurance time, over 3.89 thousand km without refueling voyage. X-47B UAV voyage as far as 5500 km, 50-100 hours - is 5-10 times the manned aircraft flying in the air continuously in the case of aerial refueling. U.S. aircraft carrier in support of the X-47B UAV can use its military power in the vast range.

The remote control unmanned aerial vehicles, such as the "death" and "Predator" has become an important weapon of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. CIA large number of applications in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan, counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations, the UAV system. Since the al-Qaeda terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001, the United States the number of UAVs in the military field applications has increased from a very small amount to more than 7,500 aircraft - accounting for about one-third of U.S. military aircraft. U.S. defense spending is slashed, but is expected to UAV system will not be much impact. This is not only because it helps to maintain U.S. military forces, or because the cost and operating costs compared to manned aircraft, unmanned aircraft systems are very low.

China in the field of UAV technology with the United States to compete against it? Last month, during the air show in Zhuhai, China launched a series of UAV and UAV model, the majority in appearance very similar to American drone. Which, CH-4 UAV four wings hanging point, be able to mount the missiles and satellite-guided smart bombs. According to reports, the UAV range of more than 3500 km, the task for execution and island sovereignty disputes in the East China Sea and South China Sea. In fact, since the last century, the mid-1990s, China launched UAV project. However, most of the Chinese UAV project under wraps, and difficult for outsiders to assess the advanced nature of its UAV project.

In July this year, the U.S. Defense Science Board warned the Pentagon said, in the rapid development of the growing importance of the UAV field, China is rapidly catching up, possibly even beyond the Western countries will eventually. U.S. Defense Science Board, said the military influence of China in the field of unmanned systems move worrying. China has a lot of technology, as well as seemingly unlimited resources, and its also obvious from the Western unmanned systems development process lessons learned.

U.S. Defense Science Board also noted that the Chinese "Dark Sword" UAV program suggests, want to design a Western country has not yet UAV - air-to-air combat, and launch a ground attack super sonic UAV. U.S. Defense Science Board in its report, adding that this new Chinese UAV design, can act as the Chinese anti-ship ballistic missiles against U.S. aircraft carrier targeting node.