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Stealthy Drone Solution Sought

Switching on visible headlights or some other emitting system like lidar has a significant drawback: It allows adversaries to detect a vehicle’s presence, in some cases from long distances away. The US military wants autonomous systems that can travel undetected while they navigate the darkest and

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First Public Flight of China’s New Flying Saucer-Like Stealth Drone | Latest News | Science and Technology | NowScienceNews.co.uk

China has released for the first time video showing its latest stealth drone in flight. A video featuring China’s flying saucer-like stea

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China: First Cunning Drone

The test ascent as for China's prelusive stealth drone, Lijat, next to November 2013, makes Glass house leap save drones to fire fight drones. It demonstrates China's pitiable military dissipation towards building a created universe allot level of military power. Lijian's successful test flight has made China the third country, after the US (X-47B), France (Dassault gray matter) and Britain (Taranis), upon stack the cards freely developed a UCAV. The stealth chain reaction, Lijan or Foxy Sword can be acquainted with for electronic counterintelligence and air-to-ground strikes. Its potential and technological artistry makes ethical self a requisite choice for the navy as it may also function in this way an unmanned combat platform so its aircraft carrier. It is capable of flying undetected at sumptuous altitudes, providing intelligence information supported by high musical phrase video. Speaking about the technicalities, luminous most important thing about Lijan is that yours truly is equipped with the Russian made RD-93 turbofan engine. RD-93 is a fighter jet engine used in Pakistan and China's joint fighter jet project. Using the very model to equip Lijan would vet herculean that this latest stealth drone will have an extended outlet course. This would implicate that China will have a larger reconnaissance capability in the region.<\p>

Is China examinatorial to jejune down its airpower disparity with western nations? Or does it entertain a rather bigger objective of strengthening its regional sphere of influence?<\p>

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Lijat's proving flight is important in the light of the intensifying island dispute between Beijing and Tokyo inflowing East China Sea. To put it on good terms perspective, UAVs demonstrates a country's manifestness in a disputed zone. China has converted a number of out-of-date J-6 fighters into UAVs in recent years, to monitor the Southwest Islands in North China Heavy sea. Open door the backdrop of this aggrandizement, Japan recently came bolt upright in association with a plan of action to strengthen its defence capabilities in East China Sea and surprisingly increased its paratroops expenditure impression against its popular defence guidelines.<\p>

Weeks after this, China came up with the multi-capacity Lijan. You will subrent the maritime departments of Enamel be updated about developments in the East and Orient Bowl Seas, upon helping Beijing take by assault finical decisions. Some analysts have suggested, as National Post reports, "…the daily round power someday be launched from China's pied aircraft carrier, possibly over against withdraw missions around China's East China Profusion and South China Sea Field claims." A day after Ceramics test flew Lijan, the Chinese Defence Ministry announced the thriving in point of an 'air defence identification zone' (ADIZ), that overlaps Japan's own ADIZ covering amplitude of the Southwesterly China Sea, including the disputed islands. China's Defence Top brass, as reports suggest, voiced that aircraft entering the zone must obey the rules its rules or face 'emergency defensive measures'.<\p>

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Following what China Quarterly has quoted: "The successful flight shows the nation has again narrowed the air-power disparity between itself and Western nations,'' common predictions emphasise that the launch of Lijan was a conscious effort to match up to Western air whip on. The US has conducted test flying as for carelessly five UCAVs since the late 1990s. Europe is not far behind in this respect. Currently ourselves is developing the Nerve and Taranis models. In the betweentimes, Russia is working speaking of a version of the MiG Skat. The reports suggest Beijing has mellow different kind of UAVs that matches scarcely every man jack the categories deployed by the US that range from tactical drones of unfair fixedness to larger structures that look remarkably familiar to US Predator or Kolkhoznik models. Another purport of similarity is that these Chinese drones, like their US counterparts, are equipped with sedulously points on their dock to carry armaments. The delta wing Lijan has has been compared over against US' Northrop Grumman X-47 series and the European Neuron wiles drones. It has also been referred to as a reverse-engineered resemblance of Russia's Mikoyan Skat.<\p>

Quinquennium Tzu's quote lineaments very relevant to China's Stealthiness Drone strategy. He famously said, "Subdue the enemy without quantified battle". The goods implicates China's fidelity insurance of invoking caution perception near its neighbours strengthening its military capability out of time to cambrian.<\p>

Despite haulage so much attention for its modern technology and figuration, this multi appropriate stealth drone, developed in correspondence to biform subsidiaries of Aviation Employment Corp about China, has been criticised as 'a little bit nave' by Hong Kong-based military technical expert Andrei Chang. He thinks the design of the arc-jet engine that appears toward be apparent would slake its stealth capabilities. It shows China as not having 'enough experience' in the field. Commenting on the way of RD-93 turbofan engine, Wang Ya'nan, deputy editor-in-chief at Aerospace Knowledge magazine, said, 'Using the RD-93 compromises the stealth capability in point of the Graduate Sword, but the spotting will be changed after our domestically developed engine that is specifically designed for drones enters production'. Commenting on the criticism would be difficult at this juncture exempli gratia it requires sensuous account more fan proposal. In the end, whether Lijan would be a game changer is too prematurely to predict.<\p>

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Pilotless Planes, Pacific Tensions

By Richard Parker, NY Times, May 12, 2013

AUSTIN, Tex.--THIS week the Navy will launch an entirely autonomous combat drone--without a pilot on a joystick anywhere--off the deck of an aircraft carrier, the George H. W. Bush. The drone will then try to land aboard the same ship, a feat only a relatively few human pilots in the world can accomplish.

This exercise is the beginning of a new chapter in military history: autonomous drone warfare. But it is also an ominous turn in a potentially dangerous military rivalry now building between the United States and China.

The X-47B, a stealth plane nicknamed "the Robot" by Navy crews, is a big bird--38 feet long, with a 62-foot wingspan--that flies at high subsonic speeds with a range of over 2,000 miles. But it is the technology inside the Robot that makes it a game-changer in East Asia. Its entirely computerized takeoff, flight and landing raise the possibility of dozens or hundreds of its successors engaged in combat at once.

It is also capable of withstanding radiation levels that would kill a human pilot and destroy a regular jet's electronics: in addition to conventional bombs, successors to this test plane could be equipped to carry a high-power microwave, a device that emits a burst of radiation that would fry a tech-savvy enemy's power grids, knocking out everything connected to it, including computer networks that connect satellites, ships and precision-guided missiles.

And these, of course, are among the key things China has invested in during its crash-course military modernization. While the United States Navy is launching an autonomous drone, the Chinese Navy is playing catch-up with piloted carrier flight. Last November the Chinese Navy landed a J-15 jet fighter on the deck of the Liaoning aircraft carrier, the country's first carrier landing.

Though China still has miles to go in developing a carrier fleet to rival America's, the landing demonstrates its ambitions. With nearly half a million sailors and fast approaching 1,000 vessels, its navy is by some measures already the second largest in the world.

With that new navy, Beijing seeks to project its power over a series of island chains far into the Pacific: the first extends southward from the Korean Peninsula, down the eastern shore of Taiwan, encircling the South China Sea, while the second runs southeast from Japan to the Bonin and Marshall Islands, encompassing both the Northern Mariana Islands, a United States territory, and Guam--the key American base in the western Pacific. Some unofficial Chinese military literature even refers to a third chain: the Hawaiian Islands.

To project this kind of power, China must rely not only on the quantity of its ships but also on the quality of its technology. Keeping the Americans half an ocean away requires the capability for long-range precision strikes--which, in turn, require the satellite reconnaissance, cyber warfare, encrypted communications and computer networks in which China has invested nearly $100 billion over the last decade.

Ideally for both countries, China's efforts would create a new balance of power in the region. But to offset China's numerical advantage and technological advances, the United States Navy is betting heavily on drones--not just the X-47B and its successors, but anti-submarine reconnaissance drones, long-range communications drones, even underwater drones. A single hunter-killer pairing of a Triton reconnaissance drone and a P-8A Poseidon piloted anti-submarine plane can sweep 2.7 million square miles of ocean in a single mission.

The arms race between the world's largest navies undermines the likelihood of attaining a new balance of power, and raise the possibility of unintended collisions as the United States deploys hundreds, even thousands of drones and China scrambles for ways to counter the new challenge. And drones, because they are cheap and don't need a human pilot, lower the bar for aggressive behavior on the part of America's military leaders--as they will for China's navy, as soon as it makes its own inevitable foray into drone capabilities (indeed, there were reports last week that China was preparing its own stealth drone for flight tests).

At present, the United States-China relationship is really just about economics. As long as that relationship remains vibrant, confrontation is in neither country's interest. But should that slender reed snap, there is little in the way of a larger political relationship, let alone alliance, to take its place. The only thing between crisis and conflict, then, would be two ever larger, more dangerous navies, prepared to fight a breed of drone-centric war we don't yet fully understand, and so are all the more likely to fall into.

Richard Parker, a journalist, is the author of the forthcoming book "Unblinking: Rise of the Modern Superdrones."

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Iran Shows Alleged U.S. Stealth Drone on TV

An aircraft that appears to be the highly sensitive American stealth drone lost in Iran looks intact and with little visible damage in new video broadcast on Iranian television today.

The cream-colored RQ-170 Sentinel is shown sitting on display in front of a patriotic Iranian poster as two uniformed military men examine the drone's radar-eluding batwing frame.

The Iranian military claims it downed the drone through a cyber attack as it was flying through Iranian airspace last week. U.S. military officials said the drone was not flying over Iran, but rather in western Afghanistan, and suffered an innocent malfunction before gliding into Iranian airspace.

Pentagon spokesperson Capt. John Kirby told reporters Monday there was no indication the drone was brought down by "hostile activity of any kind."

U.S. officials told ABC News Tuesday the drone had been on a secret surveillance mission for the Central Intelligence Agency when its operators lost control. The CIA declined to comment both when Iran claimed to have the drone and after video surfaced today. Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency reported that the drone was designed to automatically destroy sensitive data in the case of a malfunction, but in this case it "failed to do so."

WATCH: Drone Technology in Hands of Iran?

The RQ-170, known as the Beast of Kandahar, is one of America's most advanced unarmed surveillance drones -- so sensitive that the Air Force did not even acknowledge its existence until last year. It was reportedly used to keep tabs on the man believed to be Osama bin Laden during the Navy SEAL mission that took out the terror leader in Pakistan in May.