I work in the film industry, Chinese drones are ubiquitous, nothing comes close to price and performance.

The potential of drones and especially swarms of them is still very underestimated imo. A drone that is cheaper to manufacture than to shoot down will influence air superiority a lot.

Again very interesting video. Just to remind the audience, China produces more than 90% of commercial drones, so it is logical for me to expect that they will produce more than 50% (or more) of military drones in the near future.

The China graduates more Engineers every year than the US has Engineers. 50 precent of engineering graduate students in the US Universities are Chinese. The Chinese have the numbers going there way.

When I saw my first drone (basically just an expensive toy at that stage) about 15 years ago, I remember thinking "Here it comes". The "it" being remote/robotic weapon systems.

Best channel on military subjects. Thanks.

Don't worry guys We can always send our drones(allies) head first in any war If we run out of them we can send the Indians Just tell them we are doing it for democracy and freedom If not we will have some regime change in the south asia region

Everyone ignores drones and UAV's until they make their impact felt. And its very evident that China has not ignored such developments. Another good video.

Time to call R&D! Thank you for sharing this interesting videos. You have an amazing ability to present novel news!

Where are those people who has been saying for decades - Chinese can only copy ……. Yes EXACTLY

How do think the US govt will react if Chinese aircraft carrier goes to Cuba or somewhere near California like US warships does in Taiwan Straight?

by the speed of Chinese UAV and drone development, they might be the first country to produce the "Arsenal Bird" from Ace Combat.

This help me understand China better. I’m from Malaysia. China has traded with Malaysia for 2000 years. In those years, they had been the world’s biggest powers many times. Never once they sent troops to take our land. Admiral Zheng He came to Malacca five times, in gigantic fleets, and a flagship eight times the size of Christopher Columbus’ flagship, Santa Maria. He could have seized Malacca easily, but he did not. In 1511, the Portuguese came. In 1642, the Dutch came. In the 18th century the British came. We were colonised by each, one after another. When China wanted spices from India, they traded with the Indians. When they wanted gems, they traded with the Persian. They didn’t take lands. The only time China expanded beyond their current borders was in Yuan Dynasty, when Genghis and his descendants Ogedei Khan, Guyuk Khan & Kublai Khan concurred China, Mid Asia and Eastern Europe. But Yuan Dynasty, although being based in China, was a part of the Mongolian Empire. Then came the Century of Humiliation. Britain smuggled opium into China to dope the population, a strategy to turn the trade deficit around, after the British could not find enough silver to pay the Qing Dynasty in their tea and porcelain trades. After the opium warehouses were burned down and ports were closed by the Chinese in ordered to curb opium, the British started the Opium War I, which China lost. Hong Kong was forced to be surrendered to the British in a peace talk (Nanjing Treaty). The British owned 90% of the opium market in China, during that time, Queen Victoria was the world’s biggest drug baron. The remaining 10% was owned by American merchants from Boston. Many of Boston’s institutions were built with profit from opium. After 12 years of Nanjing Treaty, the West started getting really really greedy. The British wanted the Qing government: 1. To open the borders of China to allow goods coming in and out freely, and tax free. 2. Make opium legal in China. Insane requests, Qing government said no. The British and French, with supports from the US and Russia from behind, started Opium War II with China, which again, China lost. The Anglo-French military raided the Summer Palace, and threatened to burn down the Imperial Palace, the Qing government was forced to pay with ports, free business zones, 300,000 kilograms of silver and Kowloon was taken. Since then, China’s resources flew out freely through these business zones and ports. In the subsequent amendment to the treaties, Chinese people were sold overseas to serve as labor. In 1900, China suffered attacks by the 8-National Alliance(Japan, Russia, Britain, France, USA, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary). Innocent Chinese civilians in Peking (Beijing now) were murdered, buildings were destroyed & women were raped. The Imperial Palace was raided, and treasures ended up in museums like the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris. In late 1930s China was occupied by the Japanese in WWII. Millions of Chinese died during the occupancy. 300,000 Chinese died in Nanjing Massacre alone. Mao brought China together again from the shambles. There were peace and unity for some time. But Mao’s later reign saw sufferings and deaths from famine and power struggles. Then came Deng Xiao Ping and his infamous “black-cat and white-cat” story. His preference in pragmatism than ideologies has transformed China. This thinking allowed China to evolve all the time to adapt to the actual needs in the country, instead of rigidly bounded to ideologies. It also signified the death of Communism in actually practice in China. The current Socialism+Meritocracy+Market Economy model fits the Chinese like gloves, and it propels the uprise of China. Singapore has a similar model, and has been arguably more successful than Hong Kong, because Hong Kong being gateway to China, was riding on the economic boom in China, while Singapore had no one to gain from. In just 30 years, the CPC have moved 800 millions of people out from poverty. The rate of growth is unprecedented in human history. They have built the biggest mobile network, by far the biggest high speed rail network in the world, and they have become a behemoth in infrastructure. They made a fishing village called Shenzhen into the world’s second largest technological centre after the Silicon Valley. They are growing into a technological power house. It has the most elaborate e-commerce and cashless payment system in the world. They have launched exploration to Mars. The Chinese are living a good life and China has become one of the safest countries in the world. The level of patriotism in the country has reached an unprecedented height. For all of the achievements, the West has nothing good to say about it. China suffers from intense anti-China propagandas from the West. Western Media used the keyword “Communist” to instil fear and hatred towards China. Everything China does is negatively reported. They claimed China used slave labor in making iPhones. The truth was, Apple was the most profitable company in the world, it took most of the profit, leave some to Foxconn (a Taiwanese company) and little to the labor. They claimed China was inhuman with one-child policy. At the same time, they accused China of polluting the earth with its huge population. The fact is the Chinese consume just 30% of energy per capita compared to the US. They claimed China underwent ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang. The fact is China has a policy which priorities ethnic minorities. For a long time, the ethnic minorities were allowed to have two children and the majority Han only allowed one. The minorities are allowed a lower score for university intakes. There are 39,000 mosque in China, and 2100 in the US. China has about 3 times more mosque per muslim than the US. When terrorist attacks happened in Xinjiang, China had two choices: 1. Re-educate the Uighur extremists before they turned terrorists. 2. Let them be, after they launch attacks and killed innocent people, bomb their homes. China chose 1 to solve problem from the root and not to do killing. How the US solve terrorism? Fire missiles from battleships, drop bombs from the sky. During the pandemic, When China took extreme measures to lockdown the people, they were accused of being inhuman. When China recovered swiftly because of the extreme measures, they were accused of lying about the actual numbers. When China’s cases became so low that they could provide medical support to other countries, they were accused of politically motivated. Western Media always have reasons to bash China. Just like any country, there are irresponsible individuals from China which do bad and dirty things, but the China government overall has done very well. But I hear this comment over and over by people from the West: I like Chinese people, but the CPC is evil. What they really want is the Chinese to change the government, because the current one is too good. Fortunately China is not a multi-party democratic country, otherwise the opposition party in China will be supported by notorious NGOs (Non-Government Organization) of the USA, like the NED (National Endowment for Democracy), to topple the ruling party. The US and the British couldn’t crack Mainland China, so they work on Hong Kong. Of all the ex-British colonial countries, only the Hong Kongers were offered BNOs by the British. Because the UK would like the Hong Kongers to think they are British citizens, not Chinese. A divide-and-conquer strategy, which they often used in Color Revolutions around the world. They resort to low dirty tricks like detaining Huawei’s CFO & banning Huawei. They raised a silly trade war which benefits no one. Trade deficit always exist between a developing and a developed country. USA is like a luxury car seller who ask a farmer: why am I always buying your vegetables and you haven’t bought any of my cars? When the Chinese were making socks for the world 30 years ago, the world let it be. But when Chinese started to make high technology products, like Huawei and DJI, it caused red-alert. Because when Western and Japanese products are equal to Chinese in technologies, they could never match the Chinese in prices. First world countries want China to continue in making socks. Instead of stepping up themselves, they want to pull China down. The recent movement by the US against China has a very important background. When Libya, Iran, and China decided to ditch the US dollar in oil trades, Gaddafi’s was killed by the US, Iran was being sanctioned by the US, and now it’s China’s turn. The US has been printing money out of nothing. The only reason why the US Dollar is still widely accepted, is because it’s the only currency which oil is allowed to be traded with. The US has an agreement with Saudi that oil must be traded in US dollar ONLY. Without the petrol-dollar status, the US dollars will sink, and America will fall. Therefore anyone trying to disobey this order will be eliminated. China will soon use a gold-backed crypto-currency, the alarms in the White House go off like mad. China’s achievement has been by hard work. Not buy looting the world. I have deep sympathy for China for all the suffering, but now I feel happy for them. China is not rising, they are going back to where they belong. Good luck China. -C L “Christopher Columbus didn’t discover anything, instead he just got lost” -Tasia Grzenia 🦄

Cargo container ships are the ideal platform to deploy hidden military capability inside some cargo containers. Besides drone swarms, each cargo container could hold many long range antiship cruise missiles.

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Automated and remote controlled drones are the obvious path of technological development. It makes no sense not to do so.

Can you please as Otis if he can get some more detailed info regarding guided munitions? Perhaps something about JDAM as well as an overview about the "floppy thing" on the front of some GBUs. I think that would be really interesting especially how targeting and aerodynamics manage the kinetic energy to ensure the target is hit.

Great video. More on drones please! :)

Riveting watch. One can only find content like this here on this channel. Cheers🤲🙏

Maybe in the future, there will be a term "DCV" or drone carrier vessel that mainly carries drones, and their sizes will be small because their drones are also small

When UCAV's become capable and attritable there will be a big problem. That may not be far off.

Imagine if the flying tic tac turned out to be an experimental Chinese UAV

Great video, now imagine a drone that can deploy an EMP payload that could potentially destroy all the electronic devices on any seagoing vehicle. That would be a game changer.

thank you for another great video! greetings from Greece

What a great video. Keep it coming.

China is the origin of kite, in war incendiary kites was famous!

Thank you for the amazing quality of your work. L.

Anyone with a minimal political knowledge of the events from the last several years knows very well that the one who is initiating, or at least trying to, a new Cold War is not Сhina but the U$.

I'd love for you to do a deep dive on the "Divine Eagle" drone. I'm not sure if there's anything like it in the world. Bigger than a global hawk I think?

not saying it was Chinese aliens but it was Chinese aliens

love your content. keep up the good work sir.

I love this video. Eye opener

You did it again! Your KZfaq channel is the only place I heard anything about this. Well done!

US had Theo most military budget, more than top 10 countries in this world and they had increased it further this year. I assumed US will be doing the same too hiding in their hanger. The Cold War was started by the US and since 2000 China start to speed up their military air and sea development to protect their security. They are not flying all over the world unlike the US, about 1000 military bases all over the world, and the US and its allies are occupying the South China Sea and the Asian Pacific.

Outstanding coverage. Well done.

Excellent video, thanks!

Can you please do a video on the Divine Eagle itself. It's layout looks very very interesting, to me at least.

Great content.

Awesome. Luv it. Beautiful

Very interesting video. Thanks.

The winning move here is not start a war.......to bad no one will listen....

It is amazing to recognise the amount of energy and commitment used by mankind to produce evil and destructive capabilities.

hat is this launcher at 1:55 ? haven't seen it before.

Great video and analysis as always.

Warning to the US… don’t start unnecessarily conflicts at China’s seas

Chinese drone force is scary...Man

Hii, anyone know the music from 7:22 to 7:57?

what is the reliability of these UAS compared American UAS?

I think a problem people overlook with "drone swarms" is how big do you make the drones? If they are too small they will have no range or payload (how would you even get them near a carrier group in the first place) however if you make them big they become easy to detect and much more expensive. You may as well just use a cruise missile at that point.

what a great video! please keep it up!

The teaser at the end has me hooked.

A human is 1000000x stronger than a single honey bee. A single bee flying around a human can be easily swatted/killed with that strength/superiority. That same human bumps into a hive, he becomes helpless to stop the swarm. Drones when used in this way could do the same thing, swarm a target. This would require self aware drones though, as any swarm controlled remotely has the ability to be jammed/blocked, but an aware drone needs no input.

And to think that all of these "incidents", "sightings" and occasional appearances of certain craft and hardware for satellites to photograph are, in all likelihood, calculated and only letting out what they want either other countries or their internal audience to see. Eagle poking the Dragon and viceversa, not a nice or clever game.

I wonder how many of these drones can fly off of ku-satcom, and how well that connection is protected. Flying line of site would keep them on a short leash. A lot of these designs don't indicate toward a lot of room to fit a gimbaled dish.

Fantastic and terrifying video. Belton, Mo.

Glad you are bring more attention to this. Please please keep it up! And Thankyou!

More power to PLA

Looks sort of like a modernised 'drone'-ified version of the Focke-Wulf Uhu/Owl crossed with an early Lockheed U-2 from above....

That big drone is more likely something akin to the RQ-4 Global Hawk, but it may also function as a high altitude communications platform, too. Stealthy it isn't.

Hey could you make a video about EMPs as a counter to drones? It seems to be one of the best solutions against a wide variety of UAVs since their electronics are mostly not that well protected in order to keep them somewhat cheap.

awesome! thanks for turning to the future! the west pushed heavily towards VLO manned fighters (f35) while the Chinese decided to split their budget between both stealth manned (j20) and unmanned UCAV's. a manned fighter with cheap forward deployed smaller semi stealthy UCAV's using IRST can and will get first look first kill vs standalone f35's. the west has ignored this very real issue because we were so focused on the f35. Canada should be following China's example for our future defense needs...yet we went with the f35 which will eat up funding for future ucav options. the western MIC messed up big time! the f35 though an amazing fighter in its own right has handicapped future western capabilities in other very important areas. I hope all western countries that have procured the f35 still have funds available to effectively integrate unmanned system...because the f35 on it's own has a limited lifespan when it comes to tactical advantage.

i wonder how the chinese drone performance compares with the U2 spyplane which has a wingspan of 31.39 meters

China has embraced open source development of commercial drones and then applied what is developed in open source to China's military needs. The U.S and many other nations have done the opposite. They have clamped down on civilian open source development of drone technology by making it illegal or extremely difficult for open source development. The result is that China has reaped the benefit of tapping into the mind of millions of drone enthusiasts while the U.S has done the opposite.

The Chinese have also developed a flying submarine drone. Nuclear weapons can weigh as a little as 20 pounds. It could easily takeout a naval vessel. The potential is there with AI to develop a sea mine that hops to its target before taking it out. A swarm of flying submarine drones with conventional explosives could take out a fleet.

Epic

ITs funny how they are lined out for you to see looks like a setup to me

Looking forward for this serie of videos that like you said in 8:50 would last... "for ever?"

Sir, can you talk about ufo/uap encounters from various governments and militaries? Especially the ones from US navy, that would be awesome.

Can someone tell me which part of a military drone is the cutting edge part? It seems to me that drone technology is not particularly advanced or difficult, relatively speaking. Is it the engine, the stealth, the data link, cost/reliability? I don't mean the hypersonic drones, but "traditional" ones like the global hawk, Ch6, or the TB2.

Please make more videos like this for chinese drones. I like this kind of videos very much

1,4 billion workers building items like that THATS SCARY!!!!

Americans already develop submersible stealth fighter，China lags

Amazing how quickly the Chinese made technology jumps in stealth drones by reverse engineering downed US drone in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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It makes economic and strategic sense for Pentagon to outsource production of military drones in China's factories.

Many cheap drones are better than a few expensive drones.

Maybe we can buy some or acquire some through covert means (bribery) and then copy them. LoL

@4:57 - *I started humming the tune to the BBC comedy show Red Dwarf*

It was over 10 years I moved back to Minneapolis and had 6 e. African follow my bottle to a park and get to learn all about drones. And it's like the last time I saw a drone. Loved rockets in cub scouts in 1974 + 1975.

Living in America, I would love to see an American company grow to compete with the quadcopter / drone market. DJI is the giant right now, and as things are going it will stay that way. There is a lot of space in the market for a competitor, if someone would enter it. There is a small amount of quadcopter competition, on the rise, but the market needs much, much more.

Wow. I was theorizing about drone carriers in the comments just a few videos back. But what I figured was theoretical, turned out to already be fact. I guess my wish to see a video discussion the possibilities of drone tactics, is coming true. ( Be careful what you wish for ... I guess ) ♥

They make the best drones since they are the biggest developer in the field

Bro! Another gr8 article !

Yes, this development should be stimulating active measures from the US and other countries. What is being developed in the US? Britain, Australia, Japan? Could this advantage be countered easily?

I can't say about Chinese military-grade Drones, but their commercial drones are pretty sweet. Maybe their products are being eclipsed by Bayraktar for now

good show mate..👍

Time to start investing in ECM technology. Some classic fighter jets might have to go back to older tech as well resistant to it.

Definitely a underated channel you deserve more likes 😊

Go China !

This is excellent

Can you give examples of the kind of information these drones can capture?

Everything Russia and China can use to repel terrorstate USA is a blessing to the world. 🇪🇺❤️🇷🇺

While I agree that China is making large investments in drone technologies, you can't use that to say that they're leaving the West behind. The US has been flying stealth drones over hostile territories for years. The US has used Predators and Reapers to hunt down and take out high value targets for decades. There are a LOT of US drone programs that are still in the black world and it limits our ability to know how advanced we really are.

What we hear and read on media about Chinese advanced drones is total different of what we see and hear in Libyan war . Chinese drones were shot by Turkish lightweight drones and also shot by Turkish laser

Drones will be one of the most major factors that will make the chinese most powerful conventional force.

Chinese naval drone strategy is probably made to weaponize their gigantic merchant and fishing fleets, currently estimated at 5,600 vessels and 17,000 vessels respectively. There is today about 50 Chinese merchant or fishing ships for ever US Navy ship, you can imagine the results of an all-out naval battle involving these fleets, a very small fraction of which could take on the US Navy...

Sadly this channel grows more and more away from the "only facts tms." style to the clickbait channels with some random paper weapons which have titles like "us military terrified the new russian weapon bla bla bla". Why do you have started to fill your with "country vs country" statements which are completely speculative? I subbed this channel to watch pure facts ands statistics and talk about different air weapons and platforms. Speculation and comparison is fine when you do it objective, not some cringe fake scenarios. Thank you Edit. Good answer from millennium!

I think that a swarm of kamikaze drones could overcome anything... ships, planes, tanks, buildings, you name it. and at $200 each, it would also be cheaper. good show!

Thank you

who did they steal the R&D from they are copycats only no or few ideas of there own