Market Intel Group’s research reports, titled: “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Counter-Insurgency – Market & Technologies Outlook - 2010-2015” and “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Border Security – Market & Technologies Outlook - 2010-2015.” identify regions, applications, strategies and types of platforms that will lead the rapidly emerging Counter-Insurgency and Border Security UAV markets worldwide. As part of our analysis, we identify China as one of the more aggressive and unpredictable entrants into the heated UAV market.
The WJ600 pictured here is offered as an example of recent Chinese development that is designed to position this country’s UAVs at the forefront of this competitive market. Jeremy Page, in his WSJ article, writes: "China is ramping up production of unmanned aerial vehicles in an apparent bid to catch up with the U.S. and Israel in developing technology that is considered the future of military aviation.” MiG assumes that China would sell UAVs to nations boycotted by the US and Israel. Such an assumption was also confirmed in a round-about way in this article. Page quoted a Chinese official who told him: "I can't tell you which models we have sold overseas, as that's secret, but of course we're interested in exporting them." Since UAV deployment information is mostly public domain, as well as a major marketing tool for competing vendors, keeping information about deals under wrap points to the possibility that such deals were made with countries that current major UAV vendors are reluctant to do business with.
MiG’s new UAV reports analyze, among others, Concepts of Operation, platforms, payloads, evolving markets and applications, allocations, procurement patterns and resultant changes in the rapidly evolving UAV industry worldwide."
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" S i l l y P u t t y T a t " !
Forbidden City / Tiannaman Square fashion show or good for somethin' free for all?
Power seldom yields without a struggle.
Let's wait for all that real silver coin to begin circulating in China soon. Besides driving up the price of silver very soon, this'll purportedly slow rampant Chinese inflation and help spur the sale of these Made in China birds.
Cheers to that eh!
" S i l l y P u t t y T a t " !
Forbidden City / Tiannaman Square fashion show or good for somethin' free for all?
Power seldom yields without a struggle.
Let's wait for all that real silver coin to begin circulating in China soon. Besides driving up the price of silver very soon, this'll purportedly slow rampant Chinese inflation and help spur the sale of these Made in China birds.
Cheers to that eh!
I mean yes it does look stealthy, but only because it loosley resembles planes like a b-2 or x-45. It was probably not designed to be stealthy at all, just people expect a plane to look 'standard' with things like windows and a conventional tail, and anything else that isn't ugly is 'stealthy'.
It looks like it has been designed for it's purpose and happens to look cool, nothing to do with stealth.
Common noob beliefs --> It's sleek therefore its a stealth attack aircraft disguised as a rainmaker, and it is going to penetrate all RADAR defence and kill the presidents puppies so lets all be scared because it doesn't look normal, it's not what we're used to. And if a guy at aviationweekly agrees, then I have no reason to think otherwise so lets hate china. Now excuse me while I eat this fuji apple (unaware that it is from china and it grew because of the rain produced by an awesome chinese UAV deigned for peace not war. Sadly this design with good intentions has brought hate upon its creators because of fear mongering. Thanks aviationweekly!)
^ ^ ^ And if that's not a rant, I don;t know what is ! ^ ^ ^
Although maybe the big boys in the field have also realized they they are making a lot of money doing very little. After all how mad would general atomics be if someone came up some something more than a computer controlled wannabe U2?
There were some very cool designs showcased at this airshow. I really like this stealthy rainmaker.I've read a few of those Market Intel uav/defense reports. For the price, they're surprisingly short, weak, and poorly written. There are plenty of academic dissertations floating around the net (for free) that cover the same topics, with better insight, depth, and cited support docs.
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