Chinese Stealth UAV META Thread

Not sure if they really fit here. It's pretty much an oddball Chinese switch blade UAV:

a reply to: anzha

Looks like a project for students to come up with as many implausible designs and concepts as possible. That said, I guess every country in this game has a book of design and concepts.

This one:





Appears to have progressed to RCS testing:

This is supposedly the Feilong-2, an unmanned stealth bomber UAV, developed by Zhongtian Feilong (Xi'an) Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.

Not sure if this is a scale model or a prototype or...?

a reply to: anzha
Reminds me of a Horton Bros Design.One of their gliders?Form follows function.Looks like a full scale model.

a reply to: Blackfinger

Based on the angles and use of the overly pixelated background, I'm not sure it is a full scale model even.

High speed glider platform?

a reply to: Blackfinger

definitely not a glider: intakes on the front.

a reply to: Blackfinger

At a guess, conventional engine changing to an RBCC based on earlier pics that showed the exhaust.

a reply to: anzha

Well, that is technically true radar cross-sections like the f22 about the size of a marble are optimized to defeat higher-frequency bands such the C, X, Ku and the top part of the S bands. Therefore they can be detected by a radar operating at a lower-frequency band such as parts of the S or L band. The problem is you can't use those to get an accurate lock it will only tell you generally where the pane is meaning you cant use this to shoot down a fighter. All you will know is its out there.

So the advantage of stealth is to prevent missile lock which means they can't shoot you down.

a reply to: dragonridr

The problem with a fighter sized platform and low bandwidth radar is actually the vertical fin. To make it truly stealthy, the math calls for something like three times the surface area, so a truly stealthy vertical fin would have to be far too big to mount on a fighter sized platform.

There's also an eddy off the fin that the lower frequency radars can detect. So it's not actually detecting the aircraft, but that eddy. That's why they don't get more than "something is in this general area", even with low frequency radar. Once they go tailless, their RCS should plummet, even against low frequency radar.

Not sure if this counts as stealthy, but it sure is big:

Rog's follows up almost immediately or simultaneously.

www.thedrive.com...

One of the 'munitions' carried is a UUV.

a reply to: anzha
Hes watching...Always watching...Looks like Chinas version of the Global Hawk...

a reply to: Blackfinger

There's another that fills that role. GH isn't, iirc, armed either.

That's the Soar Dragon:

en.wikipedia.org...

www.janes.com...

Ground tests to start in 2022. First flight in October, 2022.

Interesting flying wing:





You guys know I always say form follows function, right? But, well, in this case, damn, can you rip it off harder?

Its easy enough to get an outside shape into CAD.Throw enough engineers at it and grab off the shelf systems it makes things easier..Getting the engines to hold together is another thing..