Above: Hongdu GJ-11 “Sharp Swords” in an airbase in Tibet. (The War Zone)
China’s unmanned stealth drones. Called Hongdu GJ-11, “Sharp Swords” are visible in the satellite images. They are located in the operational airbase in Tibet. Those drones are quite similar to X-47B, which was one of the first large-sized drones in the world. The Sharp Swrd is new and more advanced than the X-47B that was developed in 2011. But “Sharp Swords” have more advanced materials and AI that allow them to operate more independently than X-47B. The drone can operate in intelligence duties.
But it can also have attack and even air-combat capacities. In some scenarios, some drones are equipped with mirrors that aim laser beams at the desired targets. The laser system has one weakness. It cannot shoot projectiles on a parabolic trajectory. That denies its ability to shoot over the hills. But the drone with a mirror can reflect a laser ray over the walls.
Above: Hongdu GJ-11 “Sharp Sword” (AsiaTimes)
Another image of “Sharp Sword”. (GlobalSecurity)
Bottom: The Northrop-Grumman X-47B (Wikipedia)
Dropping the bomb or launching the missiles can happen using the terrain contour matching, TERCOM, or the Loran navigation system. In the last case, crossing radio beams activate the bombardment system. The TERCOM-AI-based system is more flexible. And more effective. Because there is no need for an outside radio source, these large-sized drones can operate independently. That makes the ECM-free, but the high-power EMP can destroy that drone.
The large-sized drone can operate as a bomber; it can drop conventional or even nuclear weapons. And the drone can also use an internal nuclear detonator, which turns them into the deadliest kamikaze-drones that have ever been developed. The unmanned stealth drones can have the space shuttle variants. That means those highly automated systems can be something that we have never seen before. The location is in a fully operational airbase means that those drones are coming into operation soon, or maybe they are already operational. The thing that determines those drones' use is the AI. Maybe those drones have the air combat capacity. And if those systems have enough high-power computers, they can run the advanced AI on those computers.
https://asiatimes.com/2024/09/chinas-sharp-sword-combat-drones-cutting-into-us-airpower/
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/china/lijian.htm
https://www.twz.com/air/chinas-stealth-sharp-sword-unmanned-combat-air-vehicles-deployed-to-operational-airbase
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hongdu_GJ-11
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_X-47B
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM
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