New Chinese CH-5 MALE Combat Aerial Vehicle With 30 Hour Endurance

Chinese state television displayed CH-5 Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance Combat Aerial Vehicle. CH-5 is being developed by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.

CH-5 Long-Endurance Combat Aerial Vehicle has maximum take-off weight of more than three tonnes and it can carry atleast 6 air to surface missiles and has endurance exceeding 30 hours. It can carry upto one tonne of weapons.

CH-5 will also be capable of carrying wall-penetrating radar to identify and track targets inside a building, therefore it will be more suited to counter terrorism missions. 

Chinese CH-5 medium altitude long endurance Combat Aerial Vehicle is very similar in designe to US MQ-9 Reaper unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV).

Chinese High Agility PL-10 5th Generation Within Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile

Few screen captures detailing Chinese High Agility PL-10 Fifth Generation Within Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile program. Missile is designed to have both lock-on-before launch (LOBL) and lock-on-after launch (LOAL) capabilities allowing it to it can also engage difficult targets like aircrafts behind the launching aircraft.

Chinese H-6K Badger Long Range Strategic Bomber

Spotted near People's Liberation Army Air Force's Shaodong  Air Base are number of Chinese H-6K Badger Strategic Bombers which are capable of carrying upto six CJ-10 Long Range Land Attack Cruise Missiles (LACMs). 

Spotted By Satellite: Chinese Divine Eagle High-altitude long-endurance (HALE) UAV

Chinese Divine Eagle Turbofan-Powered High-altitude long-endurance (HALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has been spotted by Google earth. This image gives good understanding of real size of  Divine Eagle UAV as a J-11 can also be seen in same image.

Rough estimates puts it size similar to American RQ-4 Global Hawk is an unmanned (UAV).

Infograph of Chinese Y-8 GX6 Maritime Patrol and Anti-submarine warfare aircraft

Very interesting infograph detailing Chinese Y-8 GX6 Maritime Patrol and Anti-submarine warfare aircraft. Y-8 GX6 has become first Chinese developed Maritime Patrol and Anti-submarine warfare aircraft to start operational service with Peoples Liberation Army Naval Air Force.

Chinese four-engine turboprop Y-8 GX6 MPA/ASW aircraft is equipped with multi-mission surface search radar, fibreglass tail for magnetic anomaly detector (MAD) boom and an Electro-Optical (EO)/Infrared (IR) sensors turret.

 Y-8 GX6 MPA/ASW aircraft can carry different weapons like depth-charges, mines, torpedoes and anti-ship missiles internally in its internal weapons bays just forward of the wings.