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Chinese drone factory in Saudi Arabia first in Middle East
Deal part of US$65b package sealed during visit of King Salman
PUBLISHED : Sunday, 26 March, 2017, 11:02am
UPDATED : Sunday, 26 March, 2017, 11:02am
Saudi Arabia’s key science and technology organisation has confirmed that one of the deals sealed during Saudi King Salman’s visit to China this month was an agreement to set up the first factory for Chinese hunter-killer aerial drones in the Middle East.
IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly reported on Thursday that the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) had signed a partnership agreement on March 16 with China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), which makes China’s CH-4 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a model with similar capabilities to the American Air Force’s MQ-1 Predator.
China, Saudi Arabia sign US$65 billion in deals as King Salman starts Beijing visit
China and Saudi Arabia signed US$65 billion worth of deals in energy, culture, education and technology during the king’s visit in the middle of this month.
A Chinese military website and military experts said Saudi Technology Development and Investment Company (TAQNIA) had signed a protocol with China’s Aerospace Long-March International Trade (ALIT) for the drone production line at the biennial International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi in February.
TAQNIA is a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, while ALIT is a Chinese export-import company that specialises in aerospace technologies.
Zhou Chenming, who previously worked for CASC’s drone-development subsidiary, said the CH-4 factory in Saudi Arabia, only the third in the world outside China, following ones in Pakistan and Myanmar, would also assemble associated equipment, which would improve after-sales services for clients in the Middle East.
The drone deal would help satisfy Saudi Arabia’s desire for more CH-4 drones, he said.
The CH-4 has reconnaissance and combat functions and CASC has promoted the drone’s counter-terrorism capabilities when marketing it in the Middle East and North Africa. The drone, already being used by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan and some other countries, fires AR-1 missiles that can hit a distant target with a margin of error of less than 1.5 metres.
Saudi king’s visit puts Beijing in Middle East spotlight
A report published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in February said Iraq had imported 56 per cent of its arms from the United States over the past five years. However, Iraq’s defence ministry said in a report it had opted for the CH-4 over the US Predator because it was cheaper. A CH-4 drone costs US$4 million, while the US Air Force website says a package including four MQ-1 Predators and a ground control station costs US$20 million.
The SIPRI report showed that arms imports by states in the Middle East had risen 86 per cent in the past five years and accounted for 29 per cent of global imports, with Saudi Arabia being the world’s second-largest arms importer after India.
Macau-based miliary observer Antony Wong Dong said the CH-4 drone project was probably offered as a substitute deal after one for China’s DF-21D “carrier killer” ballistic missile, which Saudi Arabia wanted to buy in 2014, fell through.
“The DF-21 deal was turned down as a result of strong opposition in the international community amid the Iran nuclear crisis in the region ... Beijing may want to use the CH-4 drone as a substitute project in a bid to please an old friend,” Wong said.
“Because the Chinese-made DF-3 missile that Saudi Arabia bought from Beijing nearly three decades ago is due for decommissioning, China should give weapons as a replacement.”
What Saudi King Salman wants from his tour of China, Malaysia
Beijing sold more than three dozen of its then-advanced, nuclear-capable, intermediate-range DF-3A ballistic missiles to Saudi Arabia in 1988 at a cost of US$3.5 billion – an amount more than half China’s defence budget that year. The deal also caused the oil-rich kingdom to cut-off diplomatic ties with self-ruled Taiwan and formally recognise Beijing in 1990.
Zhou said China had exported the Wing Long, a medium-altitude, long-endurance UAV, to Saudi Arabia in 2014, but that drone had not performed well in the Arabian desert.
“The CH-4 has recorded outstanding performance in anti-terrorist attacks in Iraq, Yemen, as well as in Africa’s Sudan, Ethiopia and China’s neighbouring Pakistan,” he said. “That’s why our Saudi friends are so interested in the drone cooperation project.”
Professor Jonathan Holslag, head of research at the Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies, said low oil prices had led to some oil-exporting countries, including Saudi Arabia and Iraq, using cheaper Chinese weapons.
“Like so many regional powers, Saudi Arabia is hedging its bets,” he said. “While military cooperation with the US remains very important, the Saudi government actively diversifies its security cooperation, so as to maximise its flexibility in responding to threats.
“The global defence market is reflecting the increasingly fragmented world order.”
Holslag said the US remained dominant in military hardware sales but former US president Barack Obama’s reluctance to intervene in the Middle East and the election of his isolationist successor Donald Trump had led many countries in the region to question America’s reliability as an arms exporter.
Saudi king calls for a united fight against terrorism during landmark visit to Indonesia
Zhou said the drone factory deal was just “small business” in the US$65 billion of deals signed during the king’s visit.
”The real aims behind the deals are an oil-hungry China being able to get more oil from the kingdom to sustain its domestic economic development, and Saudi Arabia improving its infrastructure with China’s technological aid.”
When President Xi Jinping visited Riyadh in January last year the two countries promised to form a comprehensive strategic partnership and boost industrial cooperation in line with Beijing’s “One Belt, One Road” trade and infrastructure scheme.
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/dipl...ry-saudi-arabia-first-middle-east#add-comment
Deal part of US$65b package sealed during visit of King Salman
PUBLISHED : Sunday, 26 March, 2017, 11:02am
UPDATED : Sunday, 26 March, 2017, 11:02am
Saudi Arabia’s key science and technology organisation has confirmed that one of the deals sealed during Saudi King Salman’s visit to China this month was an agreement to set up the first factory for Chinese hunter-killer aerial drones in the Middle East.
IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly reported on Thursday that the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) had signed a partnership agreement on March 16 with China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), which makes China’s CH-4 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a model with similar capabilities to the American Air Force’s MQ-1 Predator.
China, Saudi Arabia sign US$65 billion in deals as King Salman starts Beijing visit
China and Saudi Arabia signed US$65 billion worth of deals in energy, culture, education and technology during the king’s visit in the middle of this month.
A Chinese military website and military experts said Saudi Technology Development and Investment Company (TAQNIA) had signed a protocol with China’s Aerospace Long-March International Trade (ALIT) for the drone production line at the biennial International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi in February.
TAQNIA is a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, while ALIT is a Chinese export-import company that specialises in aerospace technologies.
Zhou Chenming, who previously worked for CASC’s drone-development subsidiary, said the CH-4 factory in Saudi Arabia, only the third in the world outside China, following ones in Pakistan and Myanmar, would also assemble associated equipment, which would improve after-sales services for clients in the Middle East.
The drone deal would help satisfy Saudi Arabia’s desire for more CH-4 drones, he said.
The CH-4 has reconnaissance and combat functions and CASC has promoted the drone’s counter-terrorism capabilities when marketing it in the Middle East and North Africa. The drone, already being used by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan and some other countries, fires AR-1 missiles that can hit a distant target with a margin of error of less than 1.5 metres.
Saudi king’s visit puts Beijing in Middle East spotlight
A report published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in February said Iraq had imported 56 per cent of its arms from the United States over the past five years. However, Iraq’s defence ministry said in a report it had opted for the CH-4 over the US Predator because it was cheaper. A CH-4 drone costs US$4 million, while the US Air Force website says a package including four MQ-1 Predators and a ground control station costs US$20 million.
The SIPRI report showed that arms imports by states in the Middle East had risen 86 per cent in the past five years and accounted for 29 per cent of global imports, with Saudi Arabia being the world’s second-largest arms importer after India.
Macau-based miliary observer Antony Wong Dong said the CH-4 drone project was probably offered as a substitute deal after one for China’s DF-21D “carrier killer” ballistic missile, which Saudi Arabia wanted to buy in 2014, fell through.
“The DF-21 deal was turned down as a result of strong opposition in the international community amid the Iran nuclear crisis in the region ... Beijing may want to use the CH-4 drone as a substitute project in a bid to please an old friend,” Wong said.
“Because the Chinese-made DF-3 missile that Saudi Arabia bought from Beijing nearly three decades ago is due for decommissioning, China should give weapons as a replacement.”
What Saudi King Salman wants from his tour of China, Malaysia
Beijing sold more than three dozen of its then-advanced, nuclear-capable, intermediate-range DF-3A ballistic missiles to Saudi Arabia in 1988 at a cost of US$3.5 billion – an amount more than half China’s defence budget that year. The deal also caused the oil-rich kingdom to cut-off diplomatic ties with self-ruled Taiwan and formally recognise Beijing in 1990.
Zhou said China had exported the Wing Long, a medium-altitude, long-endurance UAV, to Saudi Arabia in 2014, but that drone had not performed well in the Arabian desert.
“The CH-4 has recorded outstanding performance in anti-terrorist attacks in Iraq, Yemen, as well as in Africa’s Sudan, Ethiopia and China’s neighbouring Pakistan,” he said. “That’s why our Saudi friends are so interested in the drone cooperation project.”
Professor Jonathan Holslag, head of research at the Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies, said low oil prices had led to some oil-exporting countries, including Saudi Arabia and Iraq, using cheaper Chinese weapons.
“Like so many regional powers, Saudi Arabia is hedging its bets,” he said. “While military cooperation with the US remains very important, the Saudi government actively diversifies its security cooperation, so as to maximise its flexibility in responding to threats.
“The global defence market is reflecting the increasingly fragmented world order.”
Holslag said the US remained dominant in military hardware sales but former US president Barack Obama’s reluctance to intervene in the Middle East and the election of his isolationist successor Donald Trump had led many countries in the region to question America’s reliability as an arms exporter.
Saudi king calls for a united fight against terrorism during landmark visit to Indonesia
Zhou said the drone factory deal was just “small business” in the US$65 billion of deals signed during the king’s visit.
”The real aims behind the deals are an oil-hungry China being able to get more oil from the kingdom to sustain its domestic economic development, and Saudi Arabia improving its infrastructure with China’s technological aid.”
When President Xi Jinping visited Riyadh in January last year the two countries promised to form a comprehensive strategic partnership and boost industrial cooperation in line with Beijing’s “One Belt, One Road” trade and infrastructure scheme.
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/dipl...ry-saudi-arabia-first-middle-east#add-comment
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Iran won't be pleased at all with such transaction. Perhaps it's time for Iran to lower its esteem and does some purchases of certain "antidotes" from China as well as a countermeasure to Riyadh.Chinese drone factory in Saudi Arabia first in Middle East
Deal part of US$65b package sealed during visit of King Salman
PUBLISHED : Sunday, 26 March, 2017, 11:02am
UPDATED : Sunday, 26 March, 2017, 11:02am
Saudi Arabia’s key science and technology organisation has confirmed that one of the deals sealed during Saudi King Salman’s visit to China this month was an agreement to set up the first factory for Chinese hunter-killer aerial drones in the Middle East.
IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly reported on Thursday that the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) had signed a partnership agreement on March 16 with China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), which makes China’s CH-4 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a model with similar capabilities to the American Air Force’s MQ-1 Predator.
China, Saudi Arabia sign US$65 billion in deals as King Salman starts Beijing visit
China and Saudi Arabia signed US$65 billion worth of deals in energy, culture, education and technology during the king’s visit in the middle of this month.
A Chinese military website and military experts said Saudi Technology Development and Investment Company (TAQNIA) had signed a protocol with China’s Aerospace Long-March International Trade (ALIT) for the drone production line at the biennial International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi in February.
TAQNIA is a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, while ALIT is a Chinese export-import company that specialises in aerospace technologies.
Zhou Chenming, who previously worked for CASC’s drone-development subsidiary, said the CH-4 factory in Saudi Arabia, only the third in the world outside China, following ones in Pakistan and Myanmar, would also assemble associated equipment, which would improve after-sales services for clients in the Middle East.
The drone deal would help satisfy Saudi Arabia’s desire for more CH-4 drones, he said.
The CH-4 has reconnaissance and combat functions and CASC has promoted the drone’s counter-terrorism capabilities when marketing it in the Middle East and North Africa. The drone, already being used by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan and some other countries, fires AR-1 missiles that can hit a distant target with a margin of error of less than 1.5 metres.
Saudi king’s visit puts Beijing in Middle East spotlight
A report published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in February said Iraq had imported 56 per cent of its arms from the United States over the past five years. However, Iraq’s defence ministry said in a report it had opted for the CH-4 over the US Predator because it was cheaper. A CH-4 drone costs US$4 million, while the US Air Force website says a package including four MQ-1 Predators and a ground control station costs US$20 million.
The SIPRI report showed that arms imports by states in the Middle East had risen 86 per cent in the past five years and accounted for 29 per cent of global imports, with Saudi Arabia being the world’s second-largest arms importer after India.
Macau-based miliary observer Antony Wong Dong said the CH-4 drone project was probably offered as a substitute deal after one for China’s DF-21D “carrier killer” ballistic missile, which Saudi Arabia wanted to buy in 2014, fell through.
“The DF-21 deal was turned down as a result of strong opposition in the international community amid the Iran nuclear crisis in the region ... Beijing may want to use the CH-4 drone as a substitute project in a bid to please an old friend,” Wong said.
“Because the Chinese-made DF-3 missile that Saudi Arabia bought from Beijing nearly three decades ago is due for decommissioning, China should give weapons as a replacement.”
What Saudi King Salman wants from his tour of China, Malaysia
Beijing sold more than three dozen of its then-advanced, nuclear-capable, intermediate-range DF-3A ballistic missiles to Saudi Arabia in 1988 at a cost of US$3.5 billion – an amount more than half China’s defence budget that year. The deal also caused the oil-rich kingdom to cut-off diplomatic ties with self-ruled Taiwan and formally recognise Beijing in 1990.
Zhou said China had exported the Wing Long, a medium-altitude, long-endurance UAV, to Saudi Arabia in 2014, but that drone had not performed well in the Arabian desert.
“The CH-4 has recorded outstanding performance in anti-terrorist attacks in Iraq, Yemen, as well as in Africa’s Sudan, Ethiopia and China’s neighbouring Pakistan,” he said. “That’s why our Saudi friends are so interested in the drone cooperation project.”
Professor Jonathan Holslag, head of research at the Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies, said low oil prices had led to some oil-exporting countries, including Saudi Arabia and Iraq, using cheaper Chinese weapons.
“Like so many regional powers, Saudi Arabia is hedging its bets,” he said. “While military cooperation with the US remains very important, the Saudi government actively diversifies its security cooperation, so as to maximise its flexibility in responding to threats.
“The global defence market is reflecting the increasingly fragmented world order.”
Holslag said the US remained dominant in military hardware sales but former US president Barack Obama’s reluctance to intervene in the Middle East and the election of his isolationist successor Donald Trump had led many countries in the region to question America’s reliability as an arms exporter.
Saudi king calls for a united fight against terrorism during landmark visit to Indonesia
Zhou said the drone factory deal was just “small business” in the US$65 billion of deals signed during the king’s visit.
”The real aims behind the deals are an oil-hungry China being able to get more oil from the kingdom to sustain its domestic economic development, and Saudi Arabia improving its infrastructure with China’s technological aid.”
When President Xi Jinping visited Riyadh in January last year the two countries promised to form a comprehensive strategic partnership and boost industrial cooperation in line with Beijing’s “One Belt, One Road” trade and infrastructure scheme.
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/dipl...ry-saudi-arabia-first-middle-east#add-comment
Personally I dislike the radically puritanical Saud Dynasty, esp. when they keep on bombing the poor Yemenis and exporting its radical teaching backed by Petrodollar causing troubles in many affected regions around the globe.
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Same goes for Iran in syria... adn others like Hezbollah and any shiite jihadi group around the region... no need to pick one, they are both the same in their ideology... just the name is different.
AND you are off-topic...
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I think you didn't get my point, I am not questioning its performance but doubting its (CH-4) employment in PAKISTAN as we do not operate CH-4 & the only thing which we know about Chinese MALE category drones in Pakistan is that we were conducting trials for Wing Loong-I (not the CH-4) in Pakistan so ... I doubt this news of employment of Ch-4 in Pakistan till any further confirmation ...
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To admit, I won't rate the reliability and credibility of this report not very high; IMO even more extremely low. It is again a report by SCMP written by Minnie Chan, who also in her last report on the J-20 was mixing nearly all rumours and reports that are circulating in the net, including even the strange one "the WS-15 is ready".
She is mixing IMO different types and is also using wrong images; prime example is the BZK-005 as shown in the first image, which is in no way related to any of these export-UAVs, then a US Predator and finally the prototype CH-5.
IMO, forget that report.
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China Attempts to Break American Drone Monopoly
http://i-hls.com/2017/03/china-attempts-break-american-drone-monopoly/
Mar 28, 2017
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A new large-scale solar-powered UAV could break the American monopoly in this class of unmanned aerial vehicles. The UAV, produced by the China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), will make its high-altitude flight by midyear, China.org.cn reported.
The UAV will seek to reach near-space, an altitude above where commercial airliners fly, but below orbiting satellites. The vehicle is commonly referred to as an “atmospheric satellite” for it’s ability to perform low-orbit satellite tasks.
The device usually features longer hovering time, higher communication capacity and higher image resolution than a usual reconnaissance satellite that can only visit a designated region periodically. Besides, the price of a solar UAV and its launch cost are far lower than a satellite.
The Chinese vehicle has a wingspan of over 40 meters. Its designer, CAAA’s chief UAV engineer Shi Wen, calls it the world’s largest solar-powered drone now, even dwarfing the U.S. NASA Pathfinder series that never made it into mass production.
The solar UAV can easily stay airborne for months in the future. “If we don’t consider the lifespan of the parts, this kind of aerial vehicle could theoretically fly forever,” said its designer.
CAAA is a subsidiary of the NASA-like China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. Its principal mission testing the aerodynamic performance of China’s aerial and aerospace vehicles, including rockets, space modules and atmospheric reentry-vehicles.
CAAA started to develop drones to break the monopoly of the U.S. drones such as Global Hawk and Reaper in the global arms market. They have already displayed their capabilities in geological and maritime surveillance at home as well as anti-terrorism activities in the Middle East and Africa.
http://i-hls.com/2017/03/china-attempts-break-american-drone-monopoly/
http://i-hls.com/2017/03/china-attempts-break-american-drone-monopoly/
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עברית (Hebrew)A new large-scale solar-powered UAV could break the American monopoly in this class of unmanned aerial vehicles. The UAV, produced by the China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), will make its high-altitude flight by midyear, China.org.cn reported.
The UAV will seek to reach near-space, an altitude above where commercial airliners fly, but below orbiting satellites. The vehicle is commonly referred to as an “atmospheric satellite” for it’s ability to perform low-orbit satellite tasks.
The device usually features longer hovering time, higher communication capacity and higher image resolution than a usual reconnaissance satellite that can only visit a designated region periodically. Besides, the price of a solar UAV and its launch cost are far lower than a satellite.
The Chinese vehicle has a wingspan of over 40 meters. Its designer, CAAA’s chief UAV engineer Shi Wen, calls it the world’s largest solar-powered drone now, even dwarfing the U.S. NASA Pathfinder series that never made it into mass production.
The solar UAV can easily stay airborne for months in the future. “If we don’t consider the lifespan of the parts, this kind of aerial vehicle could theoretically fly forever,” said its designer.
CAAA is a subsidiary of the NASA-like China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. Its principal mission testing the aerodynamic performance of China’s aerial and aerospace vehicles, including rockets, space modules and atmospheric reentry-vehicles.
CAAA started to develop drones to break the monopoly of the U.S. drones such as Global Hawk and Reaper in the global arms market. They have already displayed their capabilities in geological and maritime surveillance at home as well as anti-terrorism activities in the Middle East and Africa.
http://i-hls.com/2017/03/china-attempts-break-american-drone-monopoly/
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Drone to soar on market: Expert
2017-04-05 08:51
China Daily Editor: Feng Shuang
China is the largest exporter of military drones today, and it is ready to place a new model on the international market.
The TYW-1
, developed by Beihang University in Beijing, one of China's top institutes for science and technology, is an unmanned aircraft for reconnaissance and combat based on the BZK-005 high-altitude, long-range reconnaissance drone, which the university also developed.
The BZK-005 is widely used by the People's Liberation Army and has performed many operations, foreign media have reported.
The drone is to make its maiden flight in September and will be placed on the international market in 2018, according to Wang Jianping, deputy general manager and chief designer at Beihang Unmanned Aircraft System Technology.
The firm was set up by Beihang University, formerly known as Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, to develop and market drones.
"We aim to tap the markets in neighboring nations, as well as in Southeast Asia and the Middle East," Wang said in an exclusive interview.
This would be the first time a Chinese university sells large unmanned combat aircraft on the international market. Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, has sold small, unarmed military drones to foreign buyers.
The best-known Chinese military drones are the Wing Loong family, made by Aviation Industry Corp of China, and China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp's CH series.
CH drones have been sold to military users in more than 10 countries, while the Wing Loong II, which made its maiden flight in late February, has received the largest contract ever for a Chinese drone made for export.
Though facing competition, Wang said he has confidence in the TYW-1 because it is based on the BZK-005, which has proved itself with an outstanding service record.
"It's fair to say the BZK-005 is the best aerodynamic design in China, as it has the best lift-to-drag ratio of the drones of its kind," he said. Lift-to-drag ratio is a key indicator of an aircraft's capability.
"Taking advantage of the good design of the BZK-005, the TYW-1 will be able to fly for about 40 hours. With a maximum takeoff weight of 1,500kilograms, it will be capable of carrying six missiles or bombs with a total weight of 300 kg."
Another edge of the TYW-1 is its high level of automation. Wang said the drone can autonomously take off and land, and will be able to track a target and strike without manual control.
"It's very easy to learn how to operate this drone. It will take only a month to train an operator," he said.
The TYW-1 also will be an open and modular platform, which means it can use equipment and weapons developed not only by Chinese companies, but also by other nations, he added.
Wang Ya'nan, editor-in-chief of Aerospace Knowledge, said the TYW-1 will have bright market prospects for two key reasons.
"First, its predecessor, the BZK-005, has a good reputation in this field through its performance in actual operations," he said. "Second, the drone's modular design will give users a wide range of options when it comes to the procurement of equipment and weapons, enabling them to choose the most suitable products.
"In addition, its long endurance in the sky will be attractive to nations that must monitor vast territorial waters."
http://www.ecns.cn/military/2017/04-05/251997.shtml
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2017-04-05 08:51
China Daily Editor: Feng Shuang
China is the largest exporter of military drones today, and it is ready to place a new model on the international market.
The TYW-1
, developed by Beihang University in Beijing, one of China's top institutes for science and technology, is an unmanned aircraft for reconnaissance and combat based on the BZK-005 high-altitude, long-range reconnaissance drone, which the university also developed.The BZK-005 is widely used by the People's Liberation Army and has performed many operations, foreign media have reported.
The drone is to make its maiden flight in September and will be placed on the international market in 2018, according to Wang Jianping, deputy general manager and chief designer at Beihang Unmanned Aircraft System Technology.
The firm was set up by Beihang University, formerly known as Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, to develop and market drones.
"We aim to tap the markets in neighboring nations, as well as in Southeast Asia and the Middle East," Wang said in an exclusive interview.
This would be the first time a Chinese university sells large unmanned combat aircraft on the international market. Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, has sold small, unarmed military drones to foreign buyers.
The best-known Chinese military drones are the Wing Loong family, made by Aviation Industry Corp of China, and China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp's CH series.
CH drones have been sold to military users in more than 10 countries, while the Wing Loong II, which made its maiden flight in late February, has received the largest contract ever for a Chinese drone made for export.
Though facing competition, Wang said he has confidence in the TYW-1 because it is based on the BZK-005, which has proved itself with an outstanding service record.
"It's fair to say the BZK-005 is the best aerodynamic design in China, as it has the best lift-to-drag ratio of the drones of its kind," he said. Lift-to-drag ratio is a key indicator of an aircraft's capability.
"Taking advantage of the good design of the BZK-005, the TYW-1 will be able to fly for about 40 hours. With a maximum takeoff weight of 1,500kilograms, it will be capable of carrying six missiles or bombs with a total weight of 300 kg."
Another edge of the TYW-1 is its high level of automation. Wang said the drone can autonomously take off and land, and will be able to track a target and strike without manual control.
"It's very easy to learn how to operate this drone. It will take only a month to train an operator," he said.
The TYW-1 also will be an open and modular platform, which means it can use equipment and weapons developed not only by Chinese companies, but also by other nations, he added.
Wang Ya'nan, editor-in-chief of Aerospace Knowledge, said the TYW-1 will have bright market prospects for two key reasons.
"First, its predecessor, the BZK-005, has a good reputation in this field through its performance in actual operations," he said. "Second, the drone's modular design will give users a wide range of options when it comes to the procurement of equipment and weapons, enabling them to choose the most suitable products.
"In addition, its long endurance in the sky will be attractive to nations that must monitor vast territorial waters."
http://www.ecns.cn/military/2017/04-05/251997.shtml
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The border guards of the PLA Army in the military subdistrict of Tacheng Prefecture, Xinjiang are exploring the introduction of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to assist the border patrol.
@OedoSoldier 2017.03.23 (Source: 81.cn)
This is DJI drone!
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So, Beihang institute is third MALE player in chinese drone industry ?
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