Americans intrigued by the design of a new Chinese drone

Starting on September 28 in Chinese Zhuhai, the international air show can please its visitors with its new products, not the last place among which will be occupied by Chinese manufacturers. According to the American edition of The Drive, special attention should be paid to the latest drone CH-6, whose design is "intriguing".

At the exhibition in Zhuhai, China will show its new CH-6 twin-engine drone (Caihong-6 or Rainbow-6) for the first time. Developers from the China Research Institute of Aerospace and Aerodynamic Technologies position the UAV as a "large, high-altitude, high-speed, multipurpose strike-reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle. aviation complex".

As the newspaper writes, the drone has a conventional aerodynamic layout and resembles the UAV Caihong 5, but has a completely different tail unit, which is a T-shaped single-fin tail with two jet engines. In addition, the wingtips of the UAV are bifurcated and bent in different directions.

CH-6 (Caihong 6) twin-engine HALE UAV being developed by CASC at # AirshowChina2021. # Zhuhai2021 pic.twitter.com/moAPrGwKWm

- Chyan Phang (@Chyan) September 25, 2021

The drone will be produced in two versions - reconnaissance and strike. Declared characteristics, according to publications in the Chinese press: max. takeoff weight - 7,8 tons, max load (reconnaissance / strike) - 300/2000 kg, fuel reserve - 3,42 / 1,72 tons, stay in the air - 20/8 hours, flight range - 12000/4500 km.

The total length is 15 meters, the wingspan is 20,5 meters, the height is 5 meters, the maximum speed is 800 km / h, the cruising speed is 500 km / h, the ceiling is 10000 - 12000 meters.

It can carry various loads, ranging from reconnaissance equipment of various types, ending with high-precision weapons.

Comments

[tralflot1832]

Otherwise, the Americans are interested, they should already be interested in the performance characteristics of the means of destruction that this drone with cunning aerodynamics will aim at. This is a deadly thing for AUKSA.

[svp67]

Quote: tralflot1832

The performance characteristics of the means that this drone with tricky aerodynamics will aim at. This thing is for AUKSA.

But if only in the reconnaissance version, for a strike with a range of 4500 km, that is, 2250 in one direction, it will not be enough, it will not reach Australia

[tralflot1832]

12000 are written for reconnaissance purposes. And the declared ICBM range is 14000 km, this does not need external target designation. But for the DF 21 this thing is just right, it will fly to the "island" of any avik at a distance of up to 5,5 thousand km.

[svp67]

Quote: tralflot1832

12000 are written for reconnaissance purposes. And the declared ICBM range is 14000 km, this does not need external target designation. But for the DF 21 this thing is just right, it will fly to the "island" of any avik at a distance of up to 5,5 thousand km.

Yes, everything would be fine if it were not for the jet engines on this "Chinese". They are perfectly "readable" even from space, so there is little chance of him remaining unnoticed, and being discovered he has little chance of surviving.

[LiSiCyn]

The number of UAVs of different types presented at the exhibition is impressive ...

[svp67]

Quote: LiSiCyn

The number of UAVs of different types presented at the exhibition is impressive ...

So no one has been able to turn off the "crazy Chinese printer" yet ...

[LiSiCyn]

Sergey, welcome!

Quote: svp67

crazy chinese printer "

These are no longer copies ... Or rather, not exactly copies. There, besides aviation, there is still a lot of other things ...

[svp67]

Quote: LiSiCyn

These are no longer copies ...

So the printer reproduces everything that you put both your own and someone else's ... Although at the expense of "not a copy", I would argue ... in many, "generic" features are guessed

[LiSiCyn]

Quote: svp67

Although at the expense of "not a copy", I would argue ... in many, "generic" features are guessed

Well, the planes are all similar to each other ... I have not seen anything similar to a tank or a destroyer.

[svp67]

Quote: LiSiCyn

Well, the planes are all similar to each other ... I have not seen anything similar to a tank or a destroyer.

And nevertheless, everyone has their own "school" and looking at them, you can say with great confidence where it is designed

[LiSiCyn]

And this is only a small part of the presented ..

[Stas157]

Americans intrigued Chinese new drone design

The situation is strange in my opinion. I am very offended! Well, who might be interested in Chinese copy-paste ?? Intrigue should only ours! Analogue!

[Flooding]

being in the air - 20/8 hours

speed - 800 km / h, cruising - 500 km / h

flight range - 12000/4500 km

cruising speed of 500 km / h, multiplied by 20 hours, gives 10 thousand km

[svp67]

Quote: Flood

cruising speed of 500 km / h, multiplied by 20 hours, gives 10 thousand km

Yes, yes ... like this, he immediately starts at 500 km per hour from a place and goes out ... He still needs to take off and sit down, and "cruising" is just the MOST ECONOMICAL speed

[Flooding]

Quote: svp67

He still needs to take off and sit down, and "cruising" is just the MOST ECONOMICAL speed

brilliantly
I'm about the same
we multiply the maximum time spent in the air by the most economical speed
get what?
right, the maximum flight range

[dauria]

we multiply the maximum time spent in the air by the most economical speed

You don't think so. You even added something extra to them. Cruising - for the maximum range, economic - for the maximum duration. The second is smaller than the first. So what else to them "cut the sturgeon" There is also such a beast on the Zhukovsky curve - the "most profitable" one. Slightly less cruising. But these are the subtleties of theoretical and practical aerodynamics. And the difference comes from the fucking powerplant. Well, she doesn't want to obey beautiful formulas for speed

[Flooding]

Quote: dauria

There is also such a beast on the Zhukovsky curve - the "most profitable" one. Slightly less cruising. But these are the subtleties of theoretical and practical aerodynamics. And the difference comes from the fucking power plant

Thanks! Live and learn.

[svp67]

Quote: Flood

we multiply the maximum time spent in the air by the most economical speed
get what?
right, the maximum flight range

No ... It's not that simple. There are still plenty of factors. And the maximum autonomous flight time depends not only on fuel reserves ...

[bar]

Quote: Flood

cruising speed of 500 km / h, multiplied by 20 hours, gives 10 thousand km

And if with hanging tanks?

[Cowbra]

It is not clear to Nifiga why intelligence needs two jet engines. Clearly, the screw is more economical and invisible!

[dauria]

It is not clear to Nifiga why intelligence needs two jet engines.

This means that they needed the maximum speed in the tactics of using for some kind of dash. On 800 screws, it's tricky to make. Maybe he will just drive all sorts of "bayraktars" and "pterodactyls"
Although here it is rather like that - they try all the schemes, and then it will be seen which one will survive in natural selection. In general, the matter is new.

[usr01]

Inspired by -
"- Well, you at least intrigued her (interested) ??? !!!
- Yes sir! Three times!"

[sen]

Fine. It will fly to Japan and Taiwan. If China rivets a lot of them, it will create problems for the latter.

[MakStVik]

Finally, the Tu-134 was copied . Joke

[Dkuznecov]

With a huge number of factories localized in China,
trained personnel and production resources,
it's a sin not to use this knowledge,
to copy the existing one and create something new on the base.
I remember that China produced motherboards twenty years ago
under his own name on the same production line,
as a localized brand. Only sold cheaper.

Take, for example, not China, but Turkey.
They (the Turks) have very, very much localized.
There is practically no Chinese consumer goods, if only on the ruins
in tourist areas.
Household appliances and electronics are localized, food, light
industry, that's for sure. I did not delve deeper, but since I live
I am there often and for a long time (I work remotely),
then I read the labels of what I buy and use.

I don't know what is stopping us, probably no one really needs it.
I'm sorry, but we carry punches from Germany. Paper clips.

[Zaurbek]

The Chinese are simultaneously plowing all the segments of the UAV ...... we are waiting for Glabal Havka and the Marine Guard in their performance. Due to the latest developments, maritime exploration in China will be a priority.