... warning and control aircraft, instead of continuing to buy the KJ-2000 installed in Il-76s it is actively expanding the KJ-200 family, installed in Chinese-made Y-8 aircraft.
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H-6K bomber (based on the copy of the Tu-16)
PLAAF
A multitude of UAVs, including large-scale types, are being developed with an eye to American and Israeli equivalents. One landmark success in this field is the CH-4B UAV, which since 2015 has been
operated by the Iraqi air force
and
is being used in operations against ...
... rendering the supposed advantages of stealth technology practically useless. Such technologies are being developed by the United Kingdom France, Germany and other countries, all with an eye to gaining military and technical supremacy.
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UAV launch
The use of counter-technology proves the hopelessness of military aviation in the longer term.
Another supposedly promising area in aviation technology development is the creation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). These include, above all, unmanned “planes” and vertical take-off and landing UAVs....
Outlook for the US Navy’s UCLASS Programme
The Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) website has already raised the
issue of naval unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
. The American Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS) programme is worth examining in more detail, since it is the most curious and potentially promising programme in the field of “strategic” naval UAVs. ...
... maritime powers are trying to catch up in their development, paying close enough attention to unmanned maritime systems.
It is worth noting that, similar to manned aircraft, the goals and capabilities of different classes of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) may vary significantly. One classification, used by the
Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom
, divides UAVs into three categories on the basis of an aircraft’s maximum gross take-off weight. Class I unmanned aircraft weigh less than ...
