China s CH-6 armed reconnaissance UAV development breaks cover
21 April 2021
by Kelvin Wong
Chinese defence prime China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) is developing a new medium/high-altitude, long-endurance (MALE/HALE) armed reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) called the CH-6 (Cai Hong 6, or Rainbow-6), industry sources have confirmed with
Janes.
A commemorative model of the yet unannounced CH-6 UAV was observed in a 19 April posting by CASC’s China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics – also known as the 11th Academy – on its official Wechat account, in which CAAA president Hu Meixiao and secretary Wang Xianyu were seen presenting the model to Hunan Provincial Committee secretary and Hunan Provincial People’s Congress Standing Committee director Xu Dazhe during an official visit to the provincial capital of Changsha on 16 March.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a New Year s address in Beijing, Dec 31, 2020. (Photo: Ju Peng/Xinhua via AP)
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LONDON: Many of us will look back on 2020 with anger as a year filled with illness, loss, penury and tragedy.
But one man may see the year in a brighter light – Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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Despite the start of the year looking dreadful for China, with a raging pandemic in Wuhan that threatened to overwhelm the country, by the end of 2020, it had emerged as the only G20 economy expected to see economic growth, with the virus far less