Unmanned Chinese helicopter to be produced for civilian use

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Unmanned Chinese helicopter to be produced for civilian use - People's Daily OnlineDecember 08, 2010

The system is designed for more than four hours of endurance, with a 3,000 meter service ceiling, 750 kg. maximum takeoff weight and 80 kg. mission payload. There is a clear ship-based role for the system.

The V750 unmanned helicopter, built with an engine that is the intellectual property of a Chinese company, will achieve mass production in Shandong. The prototype was shown in public at the previous Zhuhai International Air Show.

Cheng Shenzong, chairman of Weifang Tianxiang Technology Group, said the V750 unmanned helicopter project aims to meet the rising demand for unmanned helicopters.

This unmanned helicopter is jointly developed by China's four units and now has been put into mass production after orders were placed. These ordered products are mainly for civilian uses, such as marine pollution monitoring and forest fire monitoring.

The current international advanced unmanned helicopter technology is mainly monopolized by the United States and Israel.

Aviation technology expert Bai Yan, who participated in the research and development of the unmanned helicopter, said that at present the current Third World countries generally do not have the ability to develop unmanned helicopter systems. The main barriers are that the helicopter flying platform is not mature and there is a necessity to procure unmanned helicopter engines from abroad.

According to market analysis, the largest market demand is for unmanned helicopters with a carrying capacity of 100 kilograms or more, and the maximum capacity of the V750 unmanned helicopter reached to 750 kilograms. Therefore, its specifications can better meet current market demand.

By Yan Meng, People's Daily Online

 

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Here's an unmanned helicopter for military use:

"Historic leap" for foreign military trainees

Yesterday, the "Tianyan-2 Unmanned Helicopter", developed by the Armed Police Engineering Institute, successfully accomplished the pinpoint bomb dropping and several other new training subjects on dealing with emergencies. The reporter saw at the site that there was a ground circle 10m in diameter with the target at the center, which was the bomb dropping area. The "Tianyan-2 Unmanned Helicopter" first hovered over the bomb dropping area, and then released a smoke grenade at the target area, throwing the target area into clouds of purple smoke. According to sources, it is rather difficult to apply pinpoint bomb dropping technology to unmanned helicopter, and this is the first successful application of the technology in unmanned helicopter in China.

　　Associate Professor Luo Weibing, the head of the research group, told the reporter that this "Tianyan-2 Unmanned Helicopter" developed by his research group was a mock anti-terrorism chopper, it was a modified type for experiment of the group, and many of its functions needed to be further improved.​