The World First AWACS UAV

jhungary said:

You did not answer @Neptune question.

The C in AWACS stand for control, unless that UAV have a remote datalink system to control other asset, usually a UAV cannot act as a AWACS, at most if they can perform Jamming function, they can use as an AEW drone, but what you are describing seems like a normal recon/armed drone....

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PLA use grey stand for composite material, and yellow stand for al-li alloy
So the different gray part stand for different type of antenna
And datalink system? Why don't it have?

YoucanYouup said:

PLA use grey stand for composite material, and yellow stand for al-li alloy
So the different gray part stand for different type of antenna
And datalink system? Why don't it have?

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Do you understand the meaning of control??

Simply saying can the drone control air/ground asset? You can communicate with the drone two way does not mean they have ways to control other asset.

Say for example, an American E-3 AWACS can pass data to other air asset like A-10 or F-16. So even if the A-10 or F-16 cannot detect the target as long as it is in the AWACS screen, they can pass the info and the A-10 or F-16 can engage the target even if that target does not appear in their Radar Screen or neither pilot see the target, hence the E-3 control the F-16 or A-10 in that case

YoucanYouup said:

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The airspace monitoring, resource allocation and control is also autonomous?

Then just wow, in last 3 decades of AWACS development US never able to achieve this feat, or able to remove human analysis from AWACS. And China did this just in a decade.

Heinz Guderian said:

Is the airspace monitoring, resource allocation and control is also autonomous?

Then just wow, in last 3 decades of AWACS development US never able to achieve this feat, or able to remove human analysis from AWACS. And China did this just in a decade.

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The US AWACS system are semi-autonomous, while the system can sort out threat priority, they are pipe down and the air asset are selected manually. That's why the crew size shrink from 24 to 17 or 21.

But yeah, IF (And that is a big if) that part have made Totally Autonomous, then Chinese AWACS technology is miles ahead of the US.

jhungary said:

The US AWACS system are semi-autonomous, while the system can sort out threat priority, they are pipe down and the air asset are selected manually. That's why the crew size shrink from 24 to 17 to 21.

But yeah, IF (And that is a big if) that part have made Totally Autonomous, then Chinese AWACS technology is miles ahead of the US.

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Ofcourse, but did they able to remove human analysis totally? If the UAV AWACS is so much simple to develop, then I believe US itself done this in previous decade.

If AWACS means just put a long range radar on a plane and fly it, then congrats to China.

Heinz Guderian said:

Ofcourse, but did they able to remove human analysis totally? If the UAV AWACS is so much simple to develop, then I believe US itself done this in previous decade.

If AWACS means just put a long range radar on a plane and fly it, then congrats to China.

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Honestly, nobody know, poster claimed too many thing here, yet they usually don't even know what they are claiming...

But judging from the picture he uploaded. It look like a simply armed recon drone.

UAV has a lot of Utility, mini-AWACs is next logical step.

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Ugly !

Is there video of it flying? I like to see evidence.

GR!FF!N said:

AUV=Autonomous Underwater Vehicle..

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Even the name they couldn't copy right.

persona_non_grata said:

I think it has borrowed its looks from the twin mustang fighter

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North American P-82 Twin Mustang, with radar