New MALE UCAV at PAC

[Ghessan]

As per my estimate, it is about 9 Meters in length, with a curved hump-style head.

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if it is 9 meters which is almost same as CH-4 but then is it without wings because wing span must be double to the length of the craft the minimum.

 

[Falcon26]

The drone in the picture looks very similar to TAI ANKA

 

[Ali_Baba]

Any chance it is an Anka UAV ? : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAI_Anka

 

[PDF]

Is it armed??

The UAV MALE project in actually UCAV.

 

[farooqbhai007]

Matlab pehlay page par bola bhi hai kay PAC ka apna MALE UCAV hai , lekin nahi , keera to sub mey hai ,

 

[Zarvan]

It's not Chinese. It's our own. The MALE UAV which we were developing under Azm project.

 

[HRK]

pakistan signed a deal of 48 WL-2 drones to be made in PAC kamra with china help

that was a fake news spread by India

 

[Areesh]

that was a fake news spread by India

As per your estimate which ucav this pac drone can be compared with? Turkish Anka??

 

[Tank131]

So this in my opinion is definitely NOT Wing Loong II. Firstly i think this particular UAV is too small to be WL-2. Second, the wing roots seem too flat whereas the wing roots on WL-2 bulge slightly as they enter the fuselage. Third, the wing tips of WL-2 slant upward whereas these seem straight/flat. In the first picture, right under the wing of the super mushak in the foreground, you would expect (by scale) to see the upward canted wingtip if this were WL-2, but you dont see that here indicating to me that the wingtip is flat. Lastly, and this is slightly harder to determine based on the angles, but the nose doesn't seem quite bulbous enough to be WL-2 OR Anka (i dont think this is Anka either). Just on the general shape of the little we see of the nose, it seems less bulbous and more streamlined (though there is a smaller buldge). IF this is a Chinese drone, then i think it is Wing Loong I based on the above characteristics. It could be a prototype from AZM or another undeclared UAV/UCAV, but as someone else mentioned, its in the production facility and i would expect a prototype to be build and housed elsewhere (but that is pure speculation).

To be frank the structure (from a wing root, wing tip and nose perspective) seems closer to the model @Zarvan posted than even WL-1 whose nose is also fairly bulbous.

 

[HRK]

As per your estimate which ucav this pac drone can be compared with? Turkish Anka??

As of now no specification is available therefore It is difficult to speculate but on the basis of previously available information we can ESTIMATE/SPECULATE the following

- It will supposedly carry 4 smart air to ground missiles like Burq missile as shown in poster during previous Dubai Air Show

- Current pic does not show the nose and head section of this drone therefore it is difficult to say that it has or not the satellite link capability, therefore IF the current prototype OR the whatever version it is most probably it might have DATA link capability of limited range up to 200-250 KM from Ground control Station

- Length of its fuselage should be in between 8-9 meters as it appear lengthier then Mushak Trainer and previously wing span was estimated by @JamD around 15-16 meters [I don't remember the exact figure currently, I hope JamD will post his estimate here again]

- As in the pic fuselage of this UAV appear short in height then the Fuselage of Mushak trainer but the Slanted tails are clearly higher then the Mushak Trainer therefore its total height [from ground to the tip of Slanted tail] should be approximately +3.5 meters

- With these estimated dimensions it engine should be 150-200 HP which should give it capability to lift around 250-300 KG of payload including EO Targeting turret

So all in it will be something in b/w CH-4A and CH-4B drones from Chinese side as later is capable of carrying 6 air to ground missiles

 

[S A L M A N.]

This is most likely what we call an SDM (scaled-down model). I'm aware of this design methodology being adopted in a similar project for the armed forces.

If you remember, the PAC tendered the requirement for FPGAs, communication hardware and other equipment which was to be used for the development of flight computers,data links, etc.
@Bilal Khan (Quwa) even did an article on it.

What we are seeing is most likely the result of that. It is not a mockup or a full-scale flight model. It is an SDM aimed at validation the aerodynamic and stability parameters of the design as well as the basic communications and flight controls setup.
The PAC and the AvDI are still a couple of years away from completing the development of the Azm MALE UCAV.

Weapon-carrying trials are still a while away. If the PAC is going for a full scale UCAV along the lines of the Anka or Predator, this is not it.

 

[Qmjd]

It's not Chinese. It's our own. The MALE UAV which we were developing under Azm project.
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What a beauty

 

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Is PAC using Textron Lycoming IO-360-A1B6 4-cylinder air-cooled horizontally-opposed piston engine, 149 kW (200 hp) to power indigenous MALE UAV? Or some smaller version???

 

[aziqbal]

Zarvan the only problem with those photos shows wing angle at 180 degrees

the real PAC UAV are angled

the tail however does look similar

however my guess its the Turkish Anka and defiantly not Chinese

 

[FOOLS_NIGHTMARE]

It looks similar to ANKA!

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