New image of China’s first weaponized stealth drone

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New image of China’s first weaponized stealth drone

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I've found the follow new information:

New image of China’s first weaponized stealth drone emerges (as US launched its own one from an aircraft carrier)

Few hours before the U.S. Navy launched the the Northrop Grumman X-47B unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator off the deck of an aircraft carrier for the first time, a new clear side image of Lijian (“sharp sword”), China’s first weaponized stealth drone has emerged from the Chinese Internet.
The drone is quite interesting, as it features the characteristic dark paint (most probably RAM – Radar Absorbing Material), a large frontal air intake, a “normal” landing gear (as opposed to the reinforced one of the X-47B, needed to absorb the shock of the heavy landing on a flattop) and sports the code “001″ that denotes the first aircraft of such type.

Noteworthy is also a sort of false canopy (like the one some combat planes have got on the underside, directly underneath the front of the plane to confuse an enemy so he does not know in what direction the aircraft is headed/turning), seemingly painted on the UCAV to give planes flying in the vicinity of the drone, the idea a pilot could be sitted inside it.


Source with pictures: http://theaviationist.com/2013/05/15/li ... ZNjkrUvk6s and
http://theaviationist.com/2013/05/10/li ... ZNkNrUvk6s
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