India, it seems, has always had unwarranted self-confidence. On October 18, the Times of India quoted Indian military sources as reporting that in view of the situation on the Sino-Indian border, the Indian army sent a large number of Israeli-made "heron" medium-altitude long-time drones to the relevant areas to achieve 24-hour monitoring of the border line. This is not the first time that India has mobilized and deployed the "Heron" drone, which was deployed five years ago on the China-India border to try to conduct large-scale, large-scale reconnaissance. In December 2017, an Indian army "heron" crashed to the side of China's border, which made the Indian military quite humiliated, and after many years, they sent the same drone for aerial reconnaissance, and I don't know what gave them confidence.
▲ The "Heron" drone that the Indian army crashed
In fact, the "Heron" UAV is completely an antique-grade UAV, the UAV was originally a strategic large UAV developed by the Israel Aircraft Industry Corporation, the prototype completed its first flight as early as 1994, and was put into use at the end of 1996, according to this time node, the UAV has at least 27 years of history, even if India introduced it from 2004, it has been in service for 17 years. Although this type of UAV can carry reconnaissance equipment such as photoelectric/infrared radar for search, the reconnaissance accuracy is not high, and it can only see the rough outline of large targets. Moreover, don't forget that it is only a drone with reconnaissance functions, not a ground strike capability, and it is a fantasy to use such a drone to try to pose a threat to the Chinese military. This is not arrogance, but because when it comes to military drones, China is an Indian master.
▲ "Heron" UAV ground status
At the recently concluded 13th Zhuhai Airshow, the various types of UAVs launched by China's military enterprises were enough to amaze the world. And only the Aviation Industry Group, on display 27 UAV exhibits, which cover large, medium and small types of UAV, there are fixed wing / rotor / composite and other overall layout, but also include turboprop / turbofan / piston and other power modes, which relative to even the UAV to import India, can only say who is high and who is low at a glance!
▲Untraceable-7 unmanned reconnaissance aircraft
In addition, the non-reconnaissance-7 unmanned reconnaissance aircraft exhibited at the air show can make the Indian army sleepless all night. From the relevant information, this type of UAV is a similar to the US military's "Global Hawk" strategic level long-time UAV, so the unlearned -7 also has the title of strategic eye. Compared with the US military's "Global Hawk", the reconnaissance equipment carried by the non-reconnaissance-7 is more advanced. Compared with the "Heron", the non-detection-7 is more scanning accuracy, larger reconnaissance area, advanced synthetic aperture radar and infrared reconnaissance system, making it more deterrent.
▲ Pterodactyl-2 is enough to deal with the Indian army
Objectively speaking, in response to India, there is no need for our army to dispatch the untraceable-7, because the existing Pterodactyl-2, Rainbow-5, and Rainbow-6 are enough. In addition to reconnaissance, these UAVs have the ability to strike at the ground, and if necessary, our military can completely end them after discovering the old nest of the Indian "Heron" UAVs.
Finally, for the Indian army "heron" crashed into China in December 2017, the explanation given by the Indian Ministry of Defense at that time was that "when the drone was in the territory for routine training, due to technical problems and ground control station loss, the final crash", the word "missing", it is easy to think of iran capturing the US RQ-170 UAV, and there is reason to believe that as long as we need it, then the capture or shooting down is also hand-to-hand, then the Indian UAV may not be reconnaissance, but direct" Gifts".