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Chinese ‘Dark Sword’ is the World's First Sixth-Generation Warplane
02:29 11.06.2018(updated 03:15 11.06.2018)
The recently-revealed Chinese ‘Dark Sword unmanned aircraft, already dubbed a “nightmare for the US,” might be the first military flyer to achieve the “sixth generation” milestone.
The recently-unveiled Chinese unmanned combat air platform known as Dark Sword might be the first sixth-generation warcraft, according to Militarywatchmagazine.com.
Both the United States and Russia have experimented with unmanned aircraft, with the US cancelling its program despite Northrop Grumman presentation of an X-47B demonstrator vehicle which looked like the infamous F-117 but squashed flat by a steamroller.
At this point, "4++"- and fifth-generation aircraft are mostly limited by the durability of the human pilot. Today, pilots survive thanks to pressurized inflatable suits, oxygen masks and extreme physical training. Increasing a plane's maneuverability would certainly crush a human pilot, necessitating a call for unmanned warcraft.
Russia, on the other hand, seeks to implement unmanned capabilities into its existing machines, very much like it did with its ground armored vehicles.
At this point, it is unknown whether Dark Sword will also operate as manned or whether it will be strictly unmanned. Being unmanned embraces being susceptible to electronic attacks, particularly command channel jamming. Similar to a cyberattack, this becomes a constant race for more sophisticated swords and shields. The expenses are justified, however, by granting an unmanned jet maneuverability beyond anything that armies enjoy today.
"The Dark Sword is also likely to carry the most advanced Chinese-made air-to-air missiles and be able to operate at several times the speed of sound over extreme ranges, making it a lethal threat to hostile platforms across the South and East China Seas and a potentially invaluable asset," cited by Militarywatchmagazine.com.
It should be noted that the definition of a ‘sixth-generation jet' is not yet defined. According to some, the jet must include direct-energy (laser) weapons and missile defenses and/or cyber-attack capabilities — apparently this means the plane should be able to hack the adversary's systems remotely — and travel at much longer range.
Taking the US Navy's Triton heavy surveillance drone as a starting point — with a 15,186-mile maximum range, 30-hour endurance and a flight ceiling of 18,000 feet — reports claim that the Chinese machine would likely surpass those figures, allowing Dark Sword to operate in Japan, much of Southeast Asia and significantly increase China's anti-access-area denial (A2/AD) capabilities in the East and South China Seas.
One proposed possibility would see a Dark Sword operating in conjunction with manned J-20 fifth-generation fighters. If AI systems are sophisticated enough, a J-20 pilot would only need to point at a target using a brief wireless communication burst for the autonomous Dark Sword to engage.
What makes Dark Sword particularly unsettling, though, is that it does not need to be that sophisticated.
"At the very least [Dark Swords can] soak up missiles from US fighters," Justin Bronk of British think tank Royal United Services told Business Insider. "If you can produce lots of them, quantity has a quality of its own."
The definition of a sixth-generation aircraft would then simply entail: "cheap, expendable and swarm-capable unmanned drone."
https://sputniknews.com/military/201806111065293611-china-dark-sword-sixth-generation/
The recently-revealed Chinese ‘Dark Sword unmanned aircraft, already dubbed a “nightmare for the US,” might be the first military flyer to achieve the “sixth generation” milestone.
The recently-unveiled Chinese unmanned combat air platform known as Dark Sword might be the first sixth-generation warcraft, according to Militarywatchmagazine.com.
Both the United States and Russia have experimented with unmanned aircraft, with the US cancelling its program despite Northrop Grumman presentation of an X-47B demonstrator vehicle which looked like the infamous F-117 but squashed flat by a steamroller.
At this point, "4++"- and fifth-generation aircraft are mostly limited by the durability of the human pilot. Today, pilots survive thanks to pressurized inflatable suits, oxygen masks and extreme physical training. Increasing a plane's maneuverability would certainly crush a human pilot, necessitating a call for unmanned warcraft.
Russia, on the other hand, seeks to implement unmanned capabilities into its existing machines, very much like it did with its ground armored vehicles.
At this point, it is unknown whether Dark Sword will also operate as manned or whether it will be strictly unmanned. Being unmanned embraces being susceptible to electronic attacks, particularly command channel jamming. Similar to a cyberattack, this becomes a constant race for more sophisticated swords and shields. The expenses are justified, however, by granting an unmanned jet maneuverability beyond anything that armies enjoy today.
"The Dark Sword is also likely to carry the most advanced Chinese-made air-to-air missiles and be able to operate at several times the speed of sound over extreme ranges, making it a lethal threat to hostile platforms across the South and East China Seas and a potentially invaluable asset," cited by Militarywatchmagazine.com.
It should be noted that the definition of a ‘sixth-generation jet' is not yet defined. According to some, the jet must include direct-energy (laser) weapons and missile defenses and/or cyber-attack capabilities — apparently this means the plane should be able to hack the adversary's systems remotely — and travel at much longer range.
Taking the US Navy's Triton heavy surveillance drone as a starting point — with a 15,186-mile maximum range, 30-hour endurance and a flight ceiling of 18,000 feet — reports claim that the Chinese machine would likely surpass those figures, allowing Dark Sword to operate in Japan, much of Southeast Asia and significantly increase China's anti-access-area denial (A2/AD) capabilities in the East and South China Seas.
One proposed possibility would see a Dark Sword operating in conjunction with manned J-20 fifth-generation fighters. If AI systems are sophisticated enough, a J-20 pilot would only need to point at a target using a brief wireless communication burst for the autonomous Dark Sword to engage.
What makes Dark Sword particularly unsettling, though, is that it does not need to be that sophisticated.
"At the very least [Dark Swords can] soak up missiles from US fighters," Justin Bronk of British think tank Royal United Services told Business Insider. "If you can produce lots of them, quantity has a quality of its own."
The definition of a sixth-generation aircraft would then simply entail: "cheap, expendable and swarm-capable unmanned drone."
https://sputniknews.com/military/201806111065293611-china-dark-sword-sixth-generation/
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China Develops First Water-surface Cleaning USV
Jun 15, 2018
China develops the first water-surface cleaning Unmanned Surface Vehicle, or USV, according to a recent study by Institute of Intelligent Machines (IIM) of Hefei Institutes of Physical Science.
This newly designed USV, targetting at water-surface cleaning for the first time ever, is smart enough to remove surface garbage in complicated water area.
The key technologies applied in the machine help overcome problems caused by complicated conditions in both water areas and river channels.
"There are many types of USV, but the one we developed is the first to target water surface cleaning", said Dr. YU Daoyang, a researcher of LIU Jinhuai's team working with IIM.
"For the narrow river channel, we developed a laser radar path tracking system that can accurately self-adjusted to obstacles and paths of the rivers. Actually, you know, lidars are generally used for road detection. Because the light interference on the water surface is too strong. As for that, we made intelligence algorithm to solve that", explained YU.
The water-surface cleaning USV has a total length of six meters and a maximum displacement of four tons. It possesses a garbage compartment capacity of more than three cubic meters as well as a hybrid power system with a cruising time of more than 60 hours.
Now, it has started its work in Suzhou River in Shanghai. And its use on the Bund of Huangpu River will start in the coming future.
China Develops First Water-surface Cleaning USV---Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jun 15, 2018
This newly designed USV, targetting at water-surface cleaning for the first time ever, is smart enough to remove surface garbage in complicated water area.
The key technologies applied in the machine help overcome problems caused by complicated conditions in both water areas and river channels.
"There are many types of USV, but the one we developed is the first to target water surface cleaning", said Dr. YU Daoyang, a researcher of LIU Jinhuai's team working with IIM.
"For the narrow river channel, we developed a laser radar path tracking system that can accurately self-adjusted to obstacles and paths of the rivers. Actually, you know, lidars are generally used for road detection. Because the light interference on the water surface is too strong. As for that, we made intelligence algorithm to solve that", explained YU.
The water-surface cleaning USV has a total length of six meters and a maximum displacement of four tons. It possesses a garbage compartment capacity of more than three cubic meters as well as a hybrid power system with a cruising time of more than 60 hours.
Now, it has started its work in Suzhou River in Shanghai. And its use on the Bund of Huangpu River will start in the coming future.
China Develops First Water-surface Cleaning USV---Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Beyond hovering camera: Chinese drone makers explore new business battleground
By Jiang Jie (People's Daily Online) 15:56, June 15, 2018
With its propellers churning the spring air, a drone hums through the hustle and bustle of a once earthquake-stricken Beichuan county in southwest China’s Sichuan province, scanning newly-erected buildings with a tilted camera. Nobody stops to look at it, but the white genie is guarding the region, preventing the disaster that took thousands of lives ten years ago from hitting again.
With its collected images, a 3D city model was built to undergo earthquake simulation, so as to pinpoint the region’s most vulnerable areas in the new earthquake prevention system, jointly set up by several institutes including China Earthquake Administration, Tsinghua University and Chengdu JOUAV Dapeng Tech Co, whose CW-30 “Dapeng” UAV platform served as the white genie in the air this March.
(Photo courtesy of Chengdu JOUAV Dapeng Tech Co)
Like CW-30 “Dapeng,” industrial drones are taking off in China to stun the world with new functions beyond the age-old skills of plane surveying and pesticide sprinkling. Together with the commercial and military drones epitomized by DJI and CASC “rainbow” series, Chinese drone industry has witnessed skyrocketing growth.
According to IDC estimation, the civilian market for drones in China is expected to reach 60 billion yuan ($9.3 billion) by 2019, while the global market is projected at $25.9 billion by 2020, news.qq.com reported.
All the prosperity brings ecstasy as well as concerns for drone makers to contemplate on the long-existing question: who else needs drones and how to serve them?
The newer, the merrier
To Huang Guoqin, a marketing manager with the JOUAV Dapeng, the question has become more pressing after the company pioneered the nation’s first drone-based dropsonde meteorological observations this May in east China’s Anhui province, which China Meteorological Administration hailed as a landmark achievement to launch a new era of technology.
In addition to the March experiment, the company is also leading the nation’s pilot trial to use drones for highway network patrol, which was already tested in Shanghai, she revealed in an interview with People’s Daily at the opening of 9th UAV Show China 2018 on June 13.
(Photo courtesy of Chengdu JOUAV Dapeng Tech Co)
The three-day event was jointly organized by the China Center for Aerospace Science Technology International Communications and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems of China.
“Unlike commercial and military drones whose markets have provided them with a clear demand, the industrial-level drones are left in void. Both we and our customers are groping our way to find each other,” Huang said.
Su Yuran, a project manager with Beijing-based Efly Technology, enjoys his long and sometimes clueless contemplation over the who-is-next question, looking to expand the company’s leading position beyond oil pipeline patrol business.
“The more we think and the more people join the discussion of who is next, the more open companies and industries become. When more business want to try drones, we receive easier access to test our aircraft and technology,” Su told People’s Daily.
What came amid the welcoming businesses was ineligible drone companies, seeking to make profits in the disturbance, as the bulky industry did not have an access mechanism until recently.
The nation’s regulation on drone flight for commercial purpose only began to take effect on June 1. The same day, an online management system on drone operation permit was also launched to recognize drone makers with national certifications for the first time. Both measures are expected to help cleanse the industry for healthier development.
(Visitors look at drones on exhibition at UAV Show 2018 in Beijing on June 13. Photo: Jiang Jie/People's Daily Online)
From the world, to the world
“Chinese companies are creative and have strong executive power. Like ‘Dapeng,’ it may look crude but it is very durable. Each load change for different missions is a new test on the drone and all the tests under different occasions have proven our reliability. This is where we hold our advantage in international market,” Huang said.
Chinese companies no doubt prevail in drone manufacturing and application, whose products are exceptionally popular in developing countries where drone application rate remains low, but fall short in research and development for new function and loads, Su observed.
However, with the advancement of Chinese technology in other fields such as AI and 5G communication, Chinese drone makers are expected to catch up in new design to surprise the world.
Su, specifically, looks to develop tonnage-level freight drones, which will be beneficial to delivery industry. He also mulls to use the new technologies in the drone loads. “A drone can be more than a hovering camera. It will be exceptionally popular if it can also identify objects in its images and automatically track them down,” Su said with anticipation.
By Jiang Jie (People's Daily Online) 15:56, June 15, 2018
With its propellers churning the spring air, a drone hums through the hustle and bustle of a once earthquake-stricken Beichuan county in southwest China’s Sichuan province, scanning newly-erected buildings with a tilted camera. Nobody stops to look at it, but the white genie is guarding the region, preventing the disaster that took thousands of lives ten years ago from hitting again.
With its collected images, a 3D city model was built to undergo earthquake simulation, so as to pinpoint the region’s most vulnerable areas in the new earthquake prevention system, jointly set up by several institutes including China Earthquake Administration, Tsinghua University and Chengdu JOUAV Dapeng Tech Co, whose CW-30 “Dapeng” UAV platform served as the white genie in the air this March.
(Photo courtesy of Chengdu JOUAV Dapeng Tech Co)
Like CW-30 “Dapeng,” industrial drones are taking off in China to stun the world with new functions beyond the age-old skills of plane surveying and pesticide sprinkling. Together with the commercial and military drones epitomized by DJI and CASC “rainbow” series, Chinese drone industry has witnessed skyrocketing growth.
According to IDC estimation, the civilian market for drones in China is expected to reach 60 billion yuan ($9.3 billion) by 2019, while the global market is projected at $25.9 billion by 2020, news.qq.com reported.
All the prosperity brings ecstasy as well as concerns for drone makers to contemplate on the long-existing question: who else needs drones and how to serve them?
The newer, the merrier
To Huang Guoqin, a marketing manager with the JOUAV Dapeng, the question has become more pressing after the company pioneered the nation’s first drone-based dropsonde meteorological observations this May in east China’s Anhui province, which China Meteorological Administration hailed as a landmark achievement to launch a new era of technology.
In addition to the March experiment, the company is also leading the nation’s pilot trial to use drones for highway network patrol, which was already tested in Shanghai, she revealed in an interview with People’s Daily at the opening of 9th UAV Show China 2018 on June 13.
(Photo courtesy of Chengdu JOUAV Dapeng Tech Co)
The three-day event was jointly organized by the China Center for Aerospace Science Technology International Communications and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems of China.
“Unlike commercial and military drones whose markets have provided them with a clear demand, the industrial-level drones are left in void. Both we and our customers are groping our way to find each other,” Huang said.
Su Yuran, a project manager with Beijing-based Efly Technology, enjoys his long and sometimes clueless contemplation over the who-is-next question, looking to expand the company’s leading position beyond oil pipeline patrol business.
“The more we think and the more people join the discussion of who is next, the more open companies and industries become. When more business want to try drones, we receive easier access to test our aircraft and technology,” Su told People’s Daily.
What came amid the welcoming businesses was ineligible drone companies, seeking to make profits in the disturbance, as the bulky industry did not have an access mechanism until recently.
The nation’s regulation on drone flight for commercial purpose only began to take effect on June 1. The same day, an online management system on drone operation permit was also launched to recognize drone makers with national certifications for the first time. Both measures are expected to help cleanse the industry for healthier development.
(Visitors look at drones on exhibition at UAV Show 2018 in Beijing on June 13. Photo: Jiang Jie/People's Daily Online)
From the world, to the world
“Chinese companies are creative and have strong executive power. Like ‘Dapeng,’ it may look crude but it is very durable. Each load change for different missions is a new test on the drone and all the tests under different occasions have proven our reliability. This is where we hold our advantage in international market,” Huang said.
Chinese companies no doubt prevail in drone manufacturing and application, whose products are exceptionally popular in developing countries where drone application rate remains low, but fall short in research and development for new function and loads, Su observed.
However, with the advancement of Chinese technology in other fields such as AI and 5G communication, Chinese drone makers are expected to catch up in new design to surprise the world.
Su, specifically, looks to develop tonnage-level freight drones, which will be beneficial to delivery industry. He also mulls to use the new technologies in the drone loads. “A drone can be more than a hovering camera. It will be exceptionally popular if it can also identify objects in its images and automatically track them down,” Su said with anticipation.
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JY-300 unmanned aerial early warning & surveillance system with conformal radars, ie AWACS drone.
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Seems my words are finally proved. “WZ-9” is still a misinterpretation, though the 无侦/WZ part is right. You are getting closer
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