Chinese Drone "Mothership" Capable of Swarm Attack Takes Flight
Footage has surfaced of the mothership drone taking off for the first time.
This article originally appeared on ZeroHedge and was republished with permission.
Guest post by Tyler Durden
Whether launched from shipping containers, robotic arms, commercial box trucks, or delivered by heavyweight jet-powered mothership drones, the creativity of military technology developers in designing and deploying loitering-munition swarms has been remarkable to watch.
The latest piece of military hardware to hit our radar is China’s Jiutian (”Nine Heavens”) unmanned aerial mothership, capable of hauling up to six tons of guided bombs, air-to-air and anti-ship missiles, or entire racks of kamikaze drones.
Jiutian’s internal bay can deploy up to 100 kamikaze drones for a saturation-swarm attack, flying in coordinated patterns to strike targets simultaneously and overwhelm defenses.
Jiutian was first revealed at the air show in Zhuhai, in China’s southern Guangdong province near the border with Macau, last year. Now footage has surfaced of the mothership drone taking off for the first time.
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Why would China put English initials on their aircraft?
Just so we're clear, China bad.
Even though the US has encircled the country on the other side of the world with military bases, issues nonstop propaganda about it and national lawmakers slander it constantly.
US good. China bad.