Compared with the piston engine with about 200 horsepower in the past, the power of the D-30WL turboprop engine reaches 645 kilowatts, and the axle horsepower is 876 horsepower.

Not only surpassing the previous domestic UAVs of the same kind, but also the Zeus-3 exported to Europe by Tengfei Aviation Manufacturing Corporation and the American bullet A, which are far behind.

After all, the European Zeus-3 uses a low-power version of the turboprop engine of Honeywell, with a maximum power of only 428 kilowatts and an axle horsepower of only 581 horsepower, which belongs to the same level as the D-30AT designed by Tengfei Aviation Manufacturing Corporation for UAVs.

It is still one level away from the high-power D-30WL turboprop engine.

As for the bullet A that was exported to the United States by Company H, it didn't even use a turboprop, but it was only equipped with a 400-horsepower turbocharged piston engine, which was not even as good as the European Zeus-3, so don't compare it with Wuzhen-8A.

In addition, the supercritical wing on the Wuzhen-8A, the use of more than 40% of carbon fiber composite materials, and the absorption of advanced UAV remote control and data transmission technology by Tengfei Aviation Manufacturing Company in recent years.

Although the Wuzhen-8A is only a drone, it is the culmination of many advanced aviation technologies of Ascendas Aviation.

Even in a sense, Wuzhen-8A is the highest level of Tengfei Aviation Manufacturing Company, and the Y-6 has to stand aside compared with it.

In fact, it is also true, although Tengfei Aviation Manufacturing Company has made a subversive innovation in the fuselage structure of the Y-6, so that the Y-6 can achieve a load of 2.3 tons and a maximum range of more than 2,200 kilometers with a turboprop engine under a take-off weight of less than five tons.

However, compared with the Wuzhen-8A, it is still a little worse, after all, the structural material of the Yun-6 fuselage is a cost-controlled reduction material, and the most advanced all-carbon fiber composite materials are not applied.

The Wuzhen-8A not only uses T700 carbon fiber material for the aramid paper honeycomb structure of the backplate on both sides of the nose fairing, but also uses T700 carbon fiber composite materials for the skin of a pair of wings, with the aluminum-lithium alloy beam inside, so that the supercritical wing performance of the Wuzhen-8A has a qualitative leap compared with the previous generation of Wuzhen-8.

If it weren't for the Air Force Surveying and Mapping Brigade's incomplete understanding of the performance of carbon fiber composite materials, worried that the application of a large number of new materials would affect the stability of Wuzhen-8A, according to Zhuang Jianye's urine, the whole machine would like to use carbon fiber composite materials, after all, it is a drone, and it does not involve personnel safety issues.

It's a pity that the owner disagreed, Zhuang Jianye and others could only give up, but even so, Wuzhen-8A is not in China, even if it is placed in the world, it is also the most used model of composite materials in the world.

With the blessing of so many black technologies, the performance of Wuzhen-8A is definitely the king of UAVs, with a maximum speed of 438 kilometers per hour, a maximum practical ceiling of 13,600 meters, and a battery life of 16 hours.

Together with the Dongfanghong series of communications satellites and several foreign commercial communications satellites leased by the headquarters, the Wuzhen-8A can achieve all-territory cruising without being limited by the communication distance.

In addition, due to the large size and light structure of the Wuzhi-8A platform, the payload reaches 1,100 kilograms, and it can be installed in different reconnaissance equipment according to the needs of different missions.

Of course, with so many things at the bottom of the box, the cost of the entire system of Wuzhen-8A is also terrifying, reaching 8 million yuan.

However, the Air Force Surveying and Mapping Brigade did not even frown at this, and directly threw 10 million yuan to the Tengfei Aviation Manufacturing Corporation to purchase a complete set of systems including six Wuxian-8A and ground control receiving devices.

It's not that the Air Force Surveying and Mapping Brigade has become a random 10 million smashing bosses, but it's really that the Air Force's reconnaissance means are too scarce at this time, and not only is it unable to provide support to its brother troops, but the Air Force doesn't even know anything about the situation when asked by its superiors.

In particular, during the self-defense and counterattack war in southern Xinjiang, reconnaissance planes from Annam and the Soviet Union frequently entered and exited the national border, but the air force took out similar aircraft to reconnoiter deep into the enemy.

The main reason is that there is no guy who can take advantage of it, the legs of the Jian-6 and Jian-7 are too short, the Jian-8 is still unstable, the targets of the H-5 and H-6 are too large in the past, they used to be live targets, and there is no suitable one for them, coupled with the lack of supporting reconnaissance equipment, the role of the Air Force in the southern Xinjiang operation is not prominent.

Based on this, both the headquarters and the Air Force urgently need to improve the Air Force's existing reconnaissance capability, and the Wuzhen-8A meets the Air Force's needs for strengthening its reconnaissance capability in all aspects.

So don't 10 million, even 20 million Air Force also tighten their belts and smash them in.

What's more, 10 or 20 million is really not expensive for a high-altitude drone that can hover over the enemy at all times and stare at every move of the place.

It also costs 10 to 20 million yuan to build a reconnaissance satellite, and you have to calculate the time when the satellite is over the top, so the flexibility is much worse. The Wuzhen-8A is different, it is equipped with the same infrared optics and synthetic aperture radar as the reconnaissance satellite, and it has been circling back and forth in one area at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters, and it will never give up until the enemy's heart, liver, spleen, stomach, and kidneys are clearly seen.

What's more, at the same price, there are six Wuzhen-8A and only one satellite.

As for whether it was worried about whether it would be shot down by the enemy's lack of a living target, the Air Force Surveying and Mapping Brigade also considered it, but in the end it still believed that it depended on specific tactics, and if it was rigid, no matter how advanced the equipment was, it would be beaten down, and if it was fully prepared and flexible, it might not be able to let the enemy succeed.

In fact, it is true that in the subsequent operation in southern Xinjiang and in the process of disaster relief in southern Tibet not long ago, the Air Force's Wuzhen-8A of the Surveying and Mapping Brigade played an irreplaceable role.

In March, during the operation of pulling out points in southern Xinjiang, four Wuzhen-8A planes conducted a 20-hour non-stop reconnaissance of the Annam stronghold on the border side, and thoroughly inspected 32 fixed fire points, four artillery positions, and two reserve force assembly points, and provided the attacking troops with three hidden mountain roads that were not marked on the map.

As a result, the offensive of the attacking troops was not only fierce, but also unexpected, so that before the Annan troops could understand what was going on, the combat force was pulled out.

Until now, the Annan side had not figured out what methods the Chinese side was using to find them so clearly, so that as soon as their reserves were assembled, they were covered by several rounds of heavy artillery fire from the Chinese side.

Equally perplexed are the New Delhi authorities, who are supposed to be stationed heavy troops on the border in the name of exercises, and under normal circumstances, the Chinese side will be on guard even if it does not hold exercises of the same scale, after all, there are many variables after the flash floods, and no one will not be prepared.

As a result, China's side should provide disaster relief and disaster relief, resume production and resume production, and there is no meaning of even the slightest reciprocal response

What New Delhi officials don't know is that long before China's disaster relief, the Air Force's aerial mapping team had already used the Wuxian-8A to see the side of New Delhi along the Himalayas.

What if there are many garrisons? What about exercises? A flash flood has washed away all the roads used for logistical supplies, and the trapped officers and men are still officers and soldiers? It is clear that this is a financial black hole that cannot be filled.

So it's better to play slowly in New Delhi, you don't have time to deal with it here.

It is precisely by relying on the efficient and accurate early detection of the 8A that the subsequent disaster relief work will be so rapid, efficient and fearless.

Now that the forest fires in the Great Khing'an Mountains have just ended, the Air Force Surveying and Mapping Brigade, which had just finished in the southern part of the Tibetan area, was once again ordered to rush to the fire scene by manipulating the Wuzhen-8A to shoulder the technical reconnaissance tasks of meteorological detection, topographic exploration, and fire monitoring.

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