Chinese engineers have been working on a new reconnaissance-strike unmanned aerial vehicle for several years. Now it is fully ready and will soon be launched into mass production. In the meantime, he is being tested and recently completed the first flight tests.
The CH-5 aircraft was shown at the International Air Show in Zhuhai last year - then the prototype did not fly, but the developers stated that it would be able to observe, patrol the area, carry out positioning of targets and, with the appropriate equipment, even carry on targets fire.
“Over the past year, the design has made many changes and added new features to the drone, making it one of the best in the world among its class devices,” one of the designers of the CH-5, Shi Wan, a member of the Aerospace Aerodynamics Academy, said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency.
The wingspan of the apparatus is 21 meters, while it can carry up to a ton of cargo while being in the air for up to sixty hours. In this case, according to the assurances of the developers, the maximum range of the flight of the UAV is more than 10,000 kilometers.
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