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China will become the second country in the world with strategic UAV |
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Thursday, 06 October 2011 15:15 |
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China could become world's second largest power with heavy strategic UAV, capable of producing strategic intelligence unmanned over a wide area, if flight tests of the heavy Chinese UAV HQ-4 Xianglong will be successful.
HQ-4 Xianglong has one jet engine, has a takeoff weight of 7,500 kg and can carry a payload of up to 650 kg at a cruising speed of 750 km / h, the total range HQ-4 Xianglong is 7000 km, altitude - up to 20 km.
For the first time the general public could watch the model HQ-4 Xianglong at an air show in Zhuhai, China in 2006. Many visitors have noted resemblance to American UAV RQ-4 Global Hawk, which until then was the world's only UAV, that can carry intercontinental flights.
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