Saudi Arabia orders 300 Chinese strike-capable reconnaissance

Probably inevitable, due to their business and labour practices they can undercut western competition

>>33367293
>wing-loong
kek. must have listened to American bitch about their footprint over decades of industrial espionage.

https://twitter.com/BTelawy/status/843115954129256448

Egyptians and Iraqis are quite happy with the drone.

>>33367293
Why the fuck always their orders has to be 3 digits, where the fuck they put all the stuff

>>33367321
They lose as many during their misguided campaigns.

>>33367321
They are rich as fuck, they dont care

>>33367293
Do we even sell our drones?

>>33367321
Like this anon said >>33367330
and this anon >>33367324
Saudis are the most tactically and militarily inept first world army in the world. Cronyism through the roof, footsoldiers flown in from Pakistan and Sudan, and Western mercenaries and PMC:s without any clear mission or directive results in the cluster-fuck you are witnessing in Yemen.

Holy shit with the insane amount of manpower and experience those require the market for UAV-based contracting is pretty damn bright

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The wing loong seems to be one of the most prolific UAVs around the world.

Literally everyone uses them.

Kalashnikov of drones?

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>>33367350

Of course.

Can't use them against Bad Guys in sandland?

Just sell them to PD's, the Feds, etc, here in the US... "non weaponized" of course (wink wink)...

They'll be used, sooner or later... Why do you have a problem with being surveilled if you've got nothing to hide?

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>>33367382
Kazhakstan air force Wing Loong

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>President Xi and Saudi @KingSalman oversee signing of deals worth US$65 billion
fug.

>>33367350
No, that's why they're buying Chinkshit.

Same reason why they have Chinkshit Ballistic missiles.

>>33367293
Soon superior China will dominate high tech weapons markets. Because now they have such weapons and are not bound by weapons and technology controls like ITAR.

B T F O.
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>>33367865
I look forward for Syria to get laser weapons from China with which they can shoot down the jewish intruders and intercept their guided weapons.

>Anons not shitting their pants about loosing the last remains of the technological advance over the yellow man.

>>33367293
It is not about quality or price, but about code and transfer of technology, the same as for the kalash.

>>33368429
wait till that butthurt shitposter comes over and repeats his copypastas about how he was dumb enough in China to get scammed over by cantonese businessmen.

>>33368429
took them long enough to catch up we'll just invent some mini flying drones to fly into their tight little ass holes and pre lube them for us ;)

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>>33367293
Yeah, great idea. Buncha fuckin towelheads with chink made drones.

>>33368429

The real truth is the US does not sell the reaper to just anyone, only to fellow anglos.

The only country that managed it was the Dominican Republic, but its funded and supervised by the US, aka, its the US's drones.

Chinese will sell to anyone.

Its also good to note that the Wing Loong II flys lower, slower, and carrys less than the MQ-9 reaper.

>>33367293
>wing loong
>pterodactyl
Pretty sure it's yilong meaning dragon

>>33367293
>how does it feel that China is overtaking drone sales to countries the US never sold drones to in the first place

>>33367296
This. Saudi Arabia is not buying from China for quality, they're buying for quick cheap shit and presumably because China is not "western" enough to qualify for islamic hatred

>>33367865
China's growth in technological fields will be bound only by their sheer cultural ineptitude when it comes to basic safety ethics and quality control

>>33369472
Their space programme speaks an entirely different language in terms of successrate and safety - as compared to spaceX.

>>33367372
I've watched long internet videos of entire battles firmed by Yemini sandals destroying well fortified Saudi hilltop positions. Second they're attacked the Saudis scatter in different directions leaving their heavy weapons behind and are then chased down and murdered individually, virtually zero teamwork in a situation where a much smaller force should be able to prevail if they only worked together and stood their ground.

>>33369454
actually they do.

the first customer was Iraq, and they have used Chinese CH-4A/B to good effect against ISIS, which has spread the word that the Chinese UAVs are very reliable and easy to use.

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The cloud shadow is pretty sexy.

>>33367909
>implying the arabs wont just go blind from shooting the lasers at each other for the lulz and inbreeding

>>33368556
You mean the steel-guy?

>Build an exact clone of the reaper
>Manufacture with slave wages so it can compete
BREAKING NEWS.

>>33369659
Fun fact: Reaper UAV laser rangefinder has 40 miles blinding range.

>>33369555

Say what you like about SpaceX, but at least their space program hasn't wiped an entire village off the face of the Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelsat_708

>>33367293
Someone should make a photo edit of the Wing-Loong with really long wings

>>33369777
2010s technology and a multi billionaire vs. China's first commercial satellite launch.

>>33367445
The USA sells its drones to almost any buyer.

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>>33369640
They are testing a version of that on their EMAL.

Probably will have a carrier version of it soon.

>>33368618
>Chinese will sell to anyone
[Citation needed]

>Its also good to note that the Wing Loong II flys lower, slower, and carrys less than the MQ-9 reaper.
[Citation needed]

>>33369777
There's no actual evidence of this village being destroyed.

Lots of bullshit is made up about China. A lot is true as well, but the only "source" for this village is one journalist in the back of a pickup truck.

China hasn't had a single failed launch in years.

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>>33368618
The public specs of the WL-II are misleading.

They say it only carries 400kg, but looking at it carrying eight missiles and bombs, it actually should have a lot more payload than that.

>>33370235
Most of Wikipedia hasn't been updated in 5 years.

>>33367377
>tfw controlling 3rd world UAVs will be a P2P MMO in 10 years

Why all the CIDF?

>>33367293

>Wing Loong II

Nope sorry can't take it seriously.

>>33368653
Always wondered how that name came to be...

Yilong 翼龙 is pretty much means pterodactylus. Is win loong cantonese or something?

>>33369568
It's the case in any middle eastern military. Save for the true zealots, middle eastern militaries are composed of self serving cowards that run at the first sign of trouble. It has alot to do with the perception of state militaries there, too.

>>33370066
You say that like it's supposed to make china's program look like it has a harder time of things. Treading new ground vs. finaly doing what the rest of the developed world has been doing since the 80's is hardly a case to china's credit

>>33370235
Eight Hellfire sized missiles is less than 400kg.

>>33367372
Saudi Arabia isn't a first world country.

who cares aftr we find a new energy source Saudi Arabia will no longer be relevant.

>>33370153

Reapers have only been sold to NATO members and other close allies, the US has forbidden sales of combat capable UAVs to Middle Eastern countries.

>>33367293

China and Saudi Arabia sign $65 billion oil export sweetheart deal, Saudi Arabia buys Chinese drones.

It's not really surprising. US "alliances" in the Middle East have always been premised on mutual economic and security benefit. China can now make a better case for both, since it has a much greater need for ME oil, and cares a great deal less about ME sociocultural values.

>>33370338
I don't know chink but I feel like the 2 are close enough so maybe

>>33370275
>>33370275
they need to make it one handed operation do i can fap with the other.
though the idea of a hooker deep throating me as I dump Hellfire missiles into somebugger does appeal too.

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>>33370235
>single munition weights <50 kg
http://www.defencetalk.com/china-unveils-new-mini-missile-targets-foreign-sales-69011/

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>>33371151
Rainbow/CH-series UAVs are armed with AR-1, which is around 100kg. AR-2s arent ready now.

Wing Loong/Pterodactylus is another line from a different maker, and they dont use AR-1/2s, but the AKD-9 series of missiles, which are around hellfire class. And not to mention their small diameter cluster bombs, which weight well over 100kg.

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>>33367321
It's called the wizard's shotgun fallacy.

>>33369574
>Latest UCAV of the Rainbow series, with a payload of 1000 kg, a maximum takeoff weight of over 3 tons, a service ceiling of 10 km, and an endurance up to 60 hours with range of 6500 km. Thanks to shared data link it can cooperate with CH-3 and CH-4 drones. It conducted its maiden flight in August 2015.[19][20] The drone can carry up to 24 missiles at a single time. There are also plans to extend its endurance and range to 120 hours and 20000 km, respectively.

Hot damn

>>33371240
They also did a swarm AI test in Egypt IIRC recently.

>>33370501
Socially no.
Economically, yes if you discount diversification. If you check out their BNP they surpass some European countries. Still I agree that the country is still a shithole regardless of all the glitz and glamour. Can't polish a turd, no matter how much oil money you have.

>>33368618
The reaper definitely isn't an Anglo exclusive, more like a "NATO good boys" exclusive. Aside from USA, Australia and UK; France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain are also MQ-9 operators

>>33367293
me wing u loooooong time

>>33367293
Anyone else interested in how Iran will take this?

>>33367382
mud test when?

>>33370433
You're a fucking retard.