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This one cannot carry out combat.
I know, the ToT for the weapon system was never transferred as far as I know.
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This one cannot carry out combat.
A better option for PNGAIC's Harrier III drone...
rainbow -4 flight height of 7-8 km, the flight speed of up to 300 km/h, flight duration is more than 40 hours, you can fly continuously for two days and two nights, perform remote tasks. In terms of weapons and equipment, rainbow -4 hung beneath the front wing ground missiles and bombs
Rainbow 4 UAVs
http://www.51jiwo.com/military/11023.html
This is one sic Drone lol could loiter for 40 hours and be arm with 4 missile/bombs... This would make for and awesome weapon to patrol hostile border.. Imagine the saving of having say 100 of these patrolling a long hostile border, you could have 24/7 coverage...
imagine what Syria and Iraq could do with these bad boys...
Rainbow 4 UAV missile test
imo Drone will be the future of most third world country air wing who can't afford a real air force..it might even be more effective and way cheaper than maintaining an air force...
Its slow and its cheap, if you have 100 of these up at the same time how many terrorist or insurgent group have access to unlimited supply of manpads.. Those manpads are hard to get for even well funded terrorist or insurgent group...
UAV slowness is also its greatest asset, with slowness comes longer loiter times over a battle field, it also allow it to hunt and pick up on target that a fast mover would miss..
UAV will change the face of warfare in the 21st century country like the US and China will be able to block out the sun with these and use their Air Force man fighter to fly cover ...
The US predator drone cost 30 million dollar while the Chinese version cost 1 million dollar.. In the near future you see those price drop to even lower level..
say in a future war China need to destroy a well defended base and it have two option.
one:
send in 10 J10 cost 15 pilot, est. 50 million per plane fully loaded and arm. total cost 500 million committed to the mission
two:
send 100 drones cost 175 million fully fuel and arm drones and zero potential for lost of a pilot committed to the mission...
now out of the above option which one do you think is the better option..