According to US and British intelligence, China's "Wuzheng 8" high-altitude and high-speed unmanned reconnaissance plane can cross the island of Taiwan at will, and the Taiwan side has never discovered it, and it is still at a loss. Previously, at the Zhuhai Air Show, China's "No Detective 8" was publicly displayed, and it was also warmly welcomed by countless military fans.
It is reported that the "Undetectable 8" UAV is about 11 meters long, about 5 meters wide, and flies at a speed of Mach 3-5, which is the world's first unmanned reconnaissance aircraft with a maximum level flight speed of about 4 times supersonic speed, which is leading in the world. In contrast, the most advanced unmanned reconnaissance aircraft in the United States, such as the United States' "Predator", "Global Hawk", "RQ-180" and other unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, are still subsonic, so from this point of view alone, China's "undetective 8" UAV advantages are still very obvious.
The most advanced "RQ-4 Global Hawk" unmanned reconnaissance aircraft in the United States has a fuselage length of 13.51 meters, a height of 4.6 meters, and a wingspan of 35.4 meters. The Global Hawk drone is made of aluminum alloy, and the wings are made of carbon fiber. The "RQ-4 Global Hawk" UAV is powered by an AE3007H turbofan engine, which can produce a thrust of 31.4 kN, a maximum speed of 629 kilometers per hour, a continuous flight of more than 34 hours, a maximum cruising range of 22,800 km, and a maximum flight altitude of 18,000 meters.
The US Global Hawk UAV is equipped with a high-resolution synthetic aperture radar, which can see through clouds and wind and sand, and can accurately identify various targets on the ground at an altitude of 20,000 meters. It is said that a Global Hawk drone can survey the terrain of the entire South Korea in one day. And the United States also claims that the Global Hawk drone can fly anywhere in the world for reconnaissance. Then the face is that the so-called most advanced Global Hawk drone in the United States was shot down by an Iranian medium-range anti-aircraft missile in 2019.
In addition, the "Global Hawk" UAV is also because of the actual development and production cost is too high, the original plan to cost each "Global Hawk" UAV is about 35 million US dollars, but the actual cost reached 123.2 million US dollars per aircraft, which is almost equivalent to an F-22 stealth fighter. As a result, the original plan to produce 63 Global Hawk drones has also been cut to 45.
Judging from the "Wuzheng 8" high-altitude high-speed UAV displayed by Continental, it adopts a large-angle sweeping delta wing fusion design, with two vertical tails on both sides of the wing and inclined outward, and flaperons at the tail of the wing. From the positive point of view, the overall flat and narrow length of the "Wu Detective 8" UAV, which also gives it extremely high maneuverability and flight stability.
In addition, there are two obvious hooks on the back of the "No Detection 8", which also means that the "No Detection 8" UAV can be used for airborne launch and aerial dropping. It can be hoisted under the belly of the H-6M, and when the H-6M bomber flies to an altitude of 12km, the "No Detection 8" UAV is released, at which time the "No Detection 8" will quickly ignite and climb to an altitude, reaching an altitude of 30km, and then glide to the target area, and can return on its own after completing reconnaissance according to the predetermined line.
Because the "No Detection 8" adopts a flying wing layout, its stealth performance is very prominent, and its radar reflection cross-sectional area is relatively small, it is not easy to be detected by radar, and the flight line can be changed at any time, so it is difficult for the enemy's air defense system to deal with it.
In addition, judging from the tail of the "No Detection 8", its engine does not use a conventional scramjet engine, but may be equipped with two liquid rocket engines. And the liquid rocket engine can be repeatedly ignited, which is equivalent to flying a distance, it enters the unpowered gliding stage, and then ignites again to fly a distance. Therefore, the "No Detection 8" UAV can fly longer and fly farther. The "No Detection 8" flight speed is particularly fast, the speed is about 4 times the speed of sound, the limit speed can reach Mach 5, ordinary missiles can not intercept at all, so the "No Detection 8" UAV can also become an attack weapon.
Therefore, whether it is flight speed and flight altitude, the "No Detection 8" has obvious advantages over the US "Global Hawk" UAV. And the weapons and equipment publicly unveiled on the mainland may not be the most advanced, and perhaps there are more advanced models, which are being developed or have been equipped to the troops, but they have not been shown on display.