Beijing: China’s state-owned arms firm Norinco Group on Monday held an offensive and defensive drill featuring its export-oriented ground-based unmanned and anti-unmanned combat systems at a test site in North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The Global Times witnessed this dynamic demonstration, and experienced that the fierce confrontation between the unmanned “spears” and the anti-drone “shields” directly faced the new pain points and challenges in the actual combat of modern warfare. It demonstrated China’s new combat forces and operational methods in the field of unmanned and anti-drone operations, and also showed the richness and powerful functions of China’s export-oriented ground-based unmanned and anti-drone combat system products.
The drill is set against the background of “key territory seizure and control operations in border areas,” showing a futuristic air “offensive and defensive scenario.”
In response to a simulated non-contact conflict in a border area, the Team A established a systematic, all-round and penetrating intelligence reconnaissance network.
The Team A dispatched the BZK-005E medium-to-high altitude long-endurance drone to carry out high-altitude reconnaissance. The BZK-005E is built to have all-weather combat capability, complex environment adaptability and multi-purpose. As an independent combat unit, it can be equipped with various payloads such as electro-optical pods, SAR systems, communications and electronic countermeasures, assigned to multiple services to perform campaign-level intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance tasks, the Global Times learned.
“BZK-005E is a medium-to-high altitude long-endurance UAV mainly used for campaign-level intelligence reconnaissance, battlefield monitoring and damage assessment,” said Ben Chi, an expert from Norinco. It has strong informatization and environmental adaptability, can realize “one-key takeoff and landing,” with payload capacity up to several hundred kilograms.
-The Daily Mail-Global Times News Exchange Items
