Aviation
Military /
China
Combat Drone
China unveils its new Feilong-2 jet
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Divulgação/Northrop Grumman
Gabriela Ramos
4/22/2021
China has announced the design of Feilong-2, a new twin-engine attack drone barely detectable by radar. The photos of the project were posted on Weibo, the “Chinese Twitter”, with blots, making it difficult to see the drone. Despite the blur in the images, it is possible to notice a similarity with the design that was exhibited in 2019 at the Beijing Civil and Military Engineering Exhibition.
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Brigadeiro Lance Mans, Diretor Adjunto, Centro de Coordenação de Operações Especiais da OTAN, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The new drone will feature two jet engines, about 22 tons of take-off mass and will be able to carry around six tons of war cargo. In addition, it will be able to reach a speed of up to 750 km / h, being able to fly 7 thousand kilometers for up to 10 straight hours.
According to the Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the Feilong-2 resembles in many characteristics the S-70 Okhotnik, a Russian combat drone, but the Chinese is a little less fast, since the Russian reaches a speed of one thousand kilometers per hour.
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Gabriela Ramos
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