{"id":4413,"date":"2018-11-08T23:25:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T23:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4413"},"modified":"2018-11-08T23:25:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T23:25:51","slug":"chinas-beating-the-us-to-market-on-combat-drones-by-copying-us-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/11\/08\/chinas-beating-the-us-to-market-on-combat-drones-by-copying-us-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"CHINA\u2019S BEATING THE US TO MARKET ON COMBAT DRONES BY COPYING US TECHNOLOGY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/CH-7.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4414\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/CH-7-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/CH-7-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/CH-7-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/CH-7-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/CH-7-560x373.jpeg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/CH-7-260x173.jpeg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/CH-7-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Defense One<\/p>\n<p>By Patrick Tucker<\/p>\n<p>The mockup of China\u2019s CH-7 combat drone unveiled at Zhuhai Airshow this week looks a lot like one the U.S. Navy was developing \u2014 until it dropped the project, allowing China to position itself to beat the U.S. and other allies in fielding a long-range, high-altitude combat drone. That\u2019s despite the fact that\u2014in the words of one expert\u2014the United States had a \u201cten-year head start.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the CH-7 makes its first flight next year and stays on track, it \u201cwill be the sole option for buyers wanting to field stealth combat drones\u201d in 2022, crowed China Daily, citing \u201csources.\u201d It will also be the sole option for buyers looking to purchase an aircraft carrier-capable combat drone (according to China\u2019s state-run Global Times) that looks like the X-47B, an experimental drone that U.S. weapons-maker Northrop Grumman developed for the Navy.<\/p>\n<p>Image source: AP News<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2018\/11\/chinas-beating-us-market-combat-drones-copying-us-technology\/152625\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Defense One By Patrick Tucker The mockup of China\u2019s CH-7 combat drone unveiled at Zhuhai Airshow this week looks a lot like one the U.S. Navy was developing \u2014 until it dropped the project, allowing China to position itself to beat the U.S. and other allies in fielding a long-range, high-altitude combat drone. That\u2019s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/11\/08\/chinas-beating-the-us-to-market-on-combat-drones-by-copying-us-technology\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CHINA\u2019S BEATING THE US TO MARKET ON COMBAT DRONES BY COPYING US TECHNOLOGY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4415,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions\/4415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}