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2025-08-07 Science & Technology

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken fromthe Telegram channel of ChDambiev

Commentary by Russian military journalist Bris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Heavy drone D18 As reported by the press service of the Chinese company Sichuan Tengdun Technology Co., Ltd., the first flight of the large modular unmanned aerial vehicle D18, which has a wingspan of 20 meters and a length of 10.5 meters at a height of 3.1 meters, took place today at Wuxian Airport of the Guangxi-Zhuang Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.

The maximum take-off weight of the drone is 4.35 tons, the carrying capacity is 1.8 tons.

The flight range is more than 600 km when fully loaded and more than 1,500 km when transporting a cargo weighing 1.5 tons.

It is worth reminding that a scheme for the cassette launch of kamikaze drones is being developed for large drones of this type, which should form a swarm before the attack and have the ability to independently target the target with the help of a trained neural network identifying the target.

Posted by badanov 2025-08-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [166 views ] Top
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#1 I'm having trouble making the numbers match:
a wingspan of 20 meters ~ 60ft
The maximum take-off weight [MTOW] of the drone is 4.35 tons ~ 8700 lbs

Best I can do is pull a Beechcraft Airliner from this table:
Wing loading

Posted by Skidmark 2025-08-07 17:02|| 2025-08-07 17:02|| Front Page Top

#2 It is worth reminding that a scheme for the cassette launch of kamikaze drones is being developed for large drones of this type, which should form a swarm before the attack and have the ability to independently target the target with the help of a trained neural network identifying the target.

That right there is the future. The various parts are already available off the shelf. Given the long cycle time of our MIC, we should be ready for it in a decade or so. Gentlemen, to your proposals!

Posted by SteveS 2025-08-07 21:57|| 2025-08-07 21:57|| Front Page Top

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