Cannon-Fired Drones for guide artillery shell

Strange Payloads www.top81.cn This AVIC Drone, from its Chengdu R&D department, can be fitted inside an artillery casing, such as a rocket or cannon shell. The cannon shell will burst open in mid-flight to release the drone, which deploys its retracted wings for flight.

   

THEY CAN PICK OUT ENEMY TANKS FOR QUICK DESTRUCTION BY LASER GUIDED ARTILLERY.

Chengdu Aviation Corporation is famous for designing some of largest UAVs, but now they're offering something far smaller, but just as deadly. This little drone can be fired from large artillery, such as a 155mm cannon or a rocket launcher, to quickly scout for and light up enemy armored vehicles with its laser designator. Once enemy vehicles have been targeted, the parent artillery battery can fire off laser guided shells and artillery to accurately destroy the enemy.


Launch Sequence www.top81.cn This informational poster from AVIC shows the launch sequence of the artillery UAV. It's deployed from a 155mm shell (PLZ-04 howitzer) or 300mm rocket (A-100 rocket launcher), and when nearing deployment, the shell deploys a drag parachute to slow down. At the slower speed, the shell splits open so the drone can safely deploy. Despite the drone's small size, its sensors are capable enough of detecting specific targets like the M1A2 Abrams tank.


A View to Kill From www.top81.cn The artillery launched drone can be quickly launched to find and paint enemy vehicles with a laser. Chinese laser guided munitions, similar to the Russian Krasnopol or U.S. Copperhead, can directly hit the relatively unarmored rooftops of tanks and other armored vehicles from over 30km away.

This drone is launched inside a specially designed warhead inside a rocket or artillery shell. At the appropriate attitude, the warhead deploys a parachute in order to slow down and release the drone. The drone then uses its four wings to stay aloft, while it scans for enemy vehicles. An operator back at the artillery battery designates the drone to use its laser (as well as any another sensors) to lock onto enemy vehicles by marking their rooftops, just like the laser designator on a Reaper drone or Apache attack helicopter. Top down attacks on those enemy vehicles by artillery guided by the drone's laser are especially since they'll directly impact the weak top armor of tank and IFV turrets.


UAV munition www.top81.cn The artillery launched drone has six sections, including guidance fins, wings for gliding, communications link, and the sensor/laser targeting payload.

This small artillery-launched drone offers advantages over small traditional UAVs and larger reconnaissance UAVs. Artillery launch provides the drone with speed and mobility advantages over small hand launched UAVs like the Raven. Its small size also makes it cheaper and harder to detect, compared to a larger UAV like the ScanEagle. This drone represents not only the growing innovation in Chinese unmanned system, but also advancements in Chinese defense networking and battlefield situational awareness.

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer.  China Shows Off Cannon-Fired Drones | Popular Science

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Super Water Repellent Metal Invented

Long March 7 ready to test in new launching port, Hainan

Recently, Long-march 7 stands in Hainan Wenchang satellite launch site. Space news previously reported, new rocket will be put into use in 2016. The LM7 by "two and a half" configuration, carrying capacity will reach 13.5 tons in low earth orbit, sun synchronous orbit 5500 kilograms.

   

 

Long March 7  specs

Function	Large carrier rocket
Manufacturer	CALT
Country of origin	People's Republic of China
Size
Height	52-57 m
Diameter	core stage 3.35 m, booster 2.25 m
Mass	579-582 tons
Stages	2.5
Capacity
Payload to SSO	5,500 kilograms (12,100 lb)
Associated rockets
Family	Long March
Comparable	Delta IV, Atlas V, Angara (rocket family)
Launch history
Status	Development
Launch sites	unknown
First flight	2016
Boosters (Stage 0) - K2 booster
No. boosters	4
Engines	1 YF-100
Thrust	1,200 kN
Burn time
Fuel	Kerosene/LOX

First stage - K3 core module
Engines	2 YF-100
Thrust	2,400 kN
Burn time
Fuel	Kerosene/LOX
Second stage
Engines	1 YF-100
Thrust	(1,200 kN)
Burn time
Fuel	Kerosene/LOX

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Type-052C and 052D, both with 360 degree AESA coverage.

 

Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak is a step closer to reality

Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak is a step closer to reality: 3D printed device that bends light could make objects disappear 

• Current invisibility cloaks often tend to draw more attention to object
• This is because waves decay as they pass through artificial material 
• New technique uses battery-powered tunnel diodes to boost the power
• Technique works on 3D artificial materials rather than just plain sheets
• 'An invisibility cloak will be a reality in my lifetime,' said Professor Xin

By Ellie Zolfagharifard For Dailymail.com

Scientists have been attempting to create invisibility cloaks long before Harry Potter made it popular.

But, because of the way they bend light, current designs have always tended to draw more attention to the object than they deflect.

Now, a US researcher claims to have overcome this problem by integrating battery-powered devices into his design - and he claims an invisibility cloak will be created in his lifetime. 

The quest for a true invisibility cloak, seen in films such as Harry Potter (scene pictured), is the holy grail for physicists. But, because of the way they bend light, current designs have always tended to draw more attention to the object than they deflect

Hao Xin, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Arizona the technology could soon be used to conceal military airplanes and even people.

His US Air Force-funded research is based on the use of porous plastic bowling balls and tiny copper wire circuit boards.

These objects are put together in precise geometrical patterns to bend waves of energy in unnatural ways.

In particular, they reveal a property called 'negative refraction', meaning they can bend a wave backwards.

Metamaterials are synthetic materials engineered to have properties that have not yet been found in nature

Through a prism with negative refraction, a straw leaning in a glass of water would appear inverted.

THE INVISIBILITY CLOAK FOR TIME 

The quest for a true invisibility cloak, seen in films such as Harry Potter, is the holy grail for physicists.

But while many have claimed to be able able to briefly conceal objects from view, and even shield sounds, one team has developed a way to cloak entire events.

The say they managed to do this by concealing these events behind strands of laser light.

The technique, called ‘temporal cloaking’ was developed at the Purdue University in West Lafayette using lasers and fibre optics.

The researchers separated strands of frequencies in laser light before changing their respective height.

They then sent this light through a fibre optic cable. By slowing the speed of photons on a particular strand, the intensity of the light was dropped to zero.

This made that particular strand appear invisible, hidden behind or between other strands.

Using this method, the light travelling in front of this strand was sped up, while the trailing part was slowed down to create a gap.

The physicists then used this gap to insert hidden messages in data.

During test, the hidden messages travelled along with the other frequencies, but arrived at the other end marginally out of sync with the photons surrounding it.

It is called a spacetime cloak because the data is transported in a 'bubble of time.' 

The piece above the water's surface would appear below the water and leaning in the opposite direction.

In a more futuristic scenario, a person looking at a person wearing a cloak with artificially designed refraction properties would see part or none of the person.

This would, however, depend on the cloak's refractive index and whether the light bouncing off of it reached the viewer's eye.

But metamaterials with this negative refraction have presented a vexing physics problem: They reduce the strength of the wave.

'One of the biggest problems with metamaterials is that they produce energy loss,' Professor Xin said.

'The waves decay as they pass through the artificial material. We have designed a metamaterial that retains negative refraction but does not diminish energy.'

In fact, the synthetic material not only prevented energy loss - it caused energy gain, with the microwave intensifying in strength as it passed through the material.

Professor Xin achieved this by embedding battery-powered tunnel diodes – which is a type of semiconductor device - and into the new material.

'Many people did not think it was possible to achieve energy gain along with negative refraction,' Professor Xin said.

He first showed it was possible, with one-dimensional metamaterials, in a paper published in Physical Review Letters in 2011.

His new findings, reported in Nature Communications, have broader implications, because they involve 3D metamaterials.

Professor Xin said it will be years before fantastical applications like a Harry Potter-style invisibility cloaks would appear on the market.

But he says his research is inherently practical, predicting: 'Invisibility cloaks will be a reality in my lifetime.'

Professor Xin said it will be years before fantastical applications like invisibility cloaks appear on the market. But his research is practical, he said, predicting: 'Invisibility cloaks will be a reality in my lifetime'

Drones could soon hunt in PACKS

Drones could soon hunt in PACKS: Darpa plans reveal aircraft would collaborate to find targets with 'minimal supervision'

• Darpa will host a number of meetings in March to discuss how drones could work together to find, identify and engage targets
• Aims to enable one human operator to control a pack of drones
• Software could ‘extend the mission capabilities of existing unmanned aircraft,’ and make them more autonomous
• Idea for drones that hunt in packs was floated in the US Department of Defence's Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap for the next 25 years

By Sarah Griffiths for MailOnline

Flying a military drone in a warzone or other dangerous locations currently requires a team of human operators.

But this could be about to change, as the US military looks to enable drones to hunt in ‘coordinated packs’ with minimal human supervision.

The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) will host a number of meetings in March to discuss how aircraft could work together to find, identify and engage targets with fewer humans controlling them.

Darpa is hosting meetings to discuss how aircraft could work together to find, identify and engage targets with fewer humans controlling them (illustrated). Its 'Code' programme is also designed to cut the number of operators needed to control a single unmanned vehicle, allowing one person to operate six simultaneously

The meeting is being called under the programme name ‘Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment’ (Code).

Darpa has invited ‘participants with capabilities, methodologies, and approaches that are related to Code research and focused on revolutionary approaches to unmanned aircraft systems, autonomy and collaborative operations,’ to attend the discussion in Arlington, Virginia. 

It said that the programme offers experts the opportunity to ‘help develop groundbreaking software enabling unmanned aircraft to work together with minimal supervision’. 

Darpa said that the programme offers experts the opportunity to ‘help develop groundbreaking software enabling unmanned aircraft to work together with minimal supervision’. A current MQ-9 Reaper drone used in Afghanistan is pictured

DRONES COULD MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONS DURING MISSIONS, ROADMAP REVEALS 

Last January, the US Department of Defence (DoD) revealed in its Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap for the next 25 years.

It said that drones may be able to deviate from set missions, carry stronger chemical weapons and hunt in swarms in the years to come.

At the moment, drones follow precise commands to complete a predetermined step-by-step mission, but the unmanned aircraft of the future could deviate from tasks, informed by ‘laws’ that govern their behaviour, laid out in algorithms and machine learning, as well as advanced sensors.

They currently use GPS to navigate war zones and remote areas, but the satellite signals used by the systems can be jammed easily, so Darpa is working on jam-proof ‘inertial guidance systems’.

The DoD's roadmap also features plans for deadly ‘swarms’ of drone-bombs that are launched from an unmanned ‘mothership’ to circle the skies while a human operator searches for targets for the drones to crash into, guided by the bots’ on-bard cameras.

Thanks to the unmanned mothership, the kamikaze drones could have a range of over 250 nautical miles (463km) the roadmap said.

The weapons dropped by more traditional drones are also set to get more deadly under the plans, as researchers are working on ‘energetic nanoparticles’ with a larger surface areas so that the chemicals within the ammunition reach faster and create a more powerful explosion.

The technologies combined are intended to help the US military be ‘more effective through greater automation and greater performance,’ the report says.

It seems to envision a time when groups of drones can work intelligently together under one human operator, who still makes big decisions, such as whether to attack a target, based on information gathered by the group.

Jean-Charles Ledé, the program’s manager, said: ‘Just as wolves hunt in coordinated packs with minimal communication, multiple Code-enabled unmanned aircraft would collaborate to find, track, identify and engage targets, all under the command of a single human mission supervisor.’

Noting that while current drones have proved ‘invaluable’ for gathering intelligence and tactical strikes, Darpa said that most of them require constant control by a dedicated pilot who steers the craft and a sensor operator, as well as a large number of analysts.

It takes a lot of manpower to control each craft and sift through information, which is expensive and can pose challenges in remote war zones with highly mobile targets.

The experts think this problem can be overcome by using algorithms and software to ‘extend the mission capabilities of existing unmanned aircraft well beyond the current state-of-the-art,’ and make them more autonomous.

It’s hoped that experts can create software that can survive communications disruptions, and electronic warfare, while working with current drone designs. 

Last January, the US Department of Defence (DoD) revealed in its Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap for the next 25 years, including plans for more automous drones that could work in packs.

It said that while drones currently use GPS to navigate war zones and remote areas, the satellite signals used by the systems can be jammed easily, so Darpa is working on jam-proof ‘inertial guidance systems’.

It also featured plans for deadly ‘swarms’ of drone-bombs that are launched from an unmanned ‘mothership’ to circle the skies while a human operator searches for targets for the drones to crash into, guided by the bots’ on-bard cameras.

Thanks to the unmanned mothership, the kamikaze drones could have a range of over 250 nautical miles (463km) the roadmap said.

Jean-Charles Ledé said: ‘Just as wolves hunt in coordinated packs with minimal communication, multiple Code-enabled unmanned aircraft would collaborate to find, track, identify and engage targets, all under the command of a single human mission supervisor.’ A demonstrator model of  the Neuron drone is shown

 

BIRD SPOTTING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: THE DRONE GUIDE THAT LETS SKY GAZERS SPOT FLYING ROBOTS BY THEIR SILHOUETTES

designer Ruben Pater's Drone Survival guide has been 

likened to 21st century bird watching

Last year, a Dutch designer penned the Drone Survival Guide, which like bird watching charts, shows the various shapes and sizes of flying objects by their silhouettes.

Ruben Pater’s guide, however, details the differing kinds of flying robots used at war, as well as survival tips of how to hide from them.

The majority of the drones selected for the chart are from Nato member countries, including the UK, France, Germany, US and Canada.

This is because these countries have used drones in wars such as Afghanistan and are also more transparent than some other countries in disclosing information about the robots, such as their wingspan.

It uses a skull icon to show that a drone is used for attack and a little eye to denote a surveillance vehicle.

The chart, which Mr Pater describes as ‘21st century bird watching’ shows the vast array of flying war machines used today from the giant 130ft (37 metre) wingspan of the Global Hawk drone to the petite Parrot AC quadcopter, which measures just 23 inches (58cm).

He said: ‘Most drones are used today by military powers for remote-controlled surveillance and attack and their numbers are growing.

'The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) predicted in 2012 that within 20 years there could be as many as 30,000 drones flying over US soil alone.

‘As robotic birds will become commonplace in the near future, we should be prepared to identify them. This survival guide is an attempt to familiarise ourselves and future generations, with a changing technological environment.’

Read more:

• 2015/01/21 Establishing the CODE for Unmanned Aircraft to Fly as Collaborative Teams

The NASA Super Guppy • Inflight Cockpit Video 
The Super Guppy is a cargo plane used to transport oversized components for NASA. Scenes include the Super Guppy landing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, and cockpit footage while in flight. This flight took place on August 22, 2012 between Ellington Field, Texas and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio - a four hour flight at 250 mph and an altitude of 12,000 feet. The Super Guppy was transporting a Crew Compartment Trainer for the Space Shuttle to the National Museum of the United States Air Force.




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Shanghai Building 50,000-ton amphibious warship carry VTOL J-10 fighters

Some design of J-10C

Mil.huanqiu.com carries the full text of Hong Kong’s Mingpao January 23 article titled “Shanghai Building 50,000-ton amphibious warship” by Hong Kong military commentator Liang Tianren.
Liang says that he wrote a long article three years ago that disclosed development of a 40,000-ton amphibious attack worship or helicopter carrier. In November that year, Real Admiral Yin Zhuo disclosed at CCTV that was developing a 40,000-ton amphibious attack warship. Later in 2013, a official website revealed a list of 18 kinds of equipment Navy is to develop during China’s twelfth five-year plan (2011-2015), in which homegrown aircraft carrier no. 001 is item 7 while 50,000-ton amphibious attack warship is item 10.
China has built three Type 071 landing platform dock with quite strong landing capabilities, but they have the shortcomings of insufficient fire power and command hardware and limited air support and cannot serve as the cores of Chinese fleets far away from shore.
Has an urgent need for a large amphibious attack warship that carries advanced VTOL aircrafts to dominate the air and helicopters and landing crafts to send ground troops in to protect its investment.
According to the article, 50,000 amphibious attack warship will be 265 meters long and carry six fixed-wing aircrafts and four large helicopters on its deck. It will be accompanied by two Zubr LCACs.
Liang said that is developing stealth VTOL J-10 fighter jets. The amphibious attack warship will carry 12 J-10s.
It will, in addition, carry 10 to 20 helicopters of various types, drones and other New-concept flying vehicles. As a result, it is comparable in capabilities to Britain’s Queen Elizebeth aircraft carrier.
Shanghai’s Jiangnan Changxing Shipyard is building such a warship quickly section by section. It is expected that the sections will be assembled into one warship to be launched next year the latest. The shipyard will build 3 more such warships.
The shipyard is, in addition, building a 12,000-ton large destroyer. Shanghai is to build three more Type 071 large LDPs and conduct series production of Type 052D destroyers. Due to such heavy workload, it will not build any aircraft carrier.
Source: huanqiu.com “Hong Kong media says China is building 50,000-ton amphibious warship to carry J-10 VTOL fighters”

Type-055 model & CG

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In Wuhan. These buildings are only the mockups to test the electromagnetic environment.
 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 




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