The 13th China Zhuhai Air Show is approaching, and several netizens in mainland China recently released some mysterious cover photos of participating fighter jets in advance, sparking speculation from the outside world.

The 13th China Airshow, postponed due to the COVID-19 epidemic, will be held at Zhuhai International Airshow Center from September 28 to October 3 this year.

According to previous introductions, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation will highlight the deployment of national key instruments such as Tianwen-1 Mars probe, Chang'e-5 lunar probe, Beidou-3 global satellite navigation system constellation, and the return capsule of the new generation manned spacecraft test ship.

In terms of flight performances, the Chinese Air Force's "August 1st" flight performance team, the Chinese Air Force Aviation University's "Red Eagle" flight performance team,the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China's CBJ business jet, and the Aviation Industry Wing Loong II unmanned aerial vehicle all made appearances.

On September 13th, the "Smart Airshow APP" announced that the China Aerospace Aerodynamics Technology Research Institute will exhibit the Rainbow 6 large twin engine unmanned aerial vehicle system.

According to the introduction, Rainbow 6 is a large, high-altitude, high-speed, long endurance, multi-purpose unmanned aerial vehicle system. Adopting a conventional high aspect ratio aerodynamic layout, it has outstanding advantages such as high flight altitude, strong load capacity, long endurance, and long range. The system has high reliability and strong load scalability.

Rainbow 6 is suitable for high-altitude reconnaissance and strike, maritime anti submarine and patrol surveillance, remote warning and detection, close range air support and other combat tasks. At the same time, it can effectively achieve manned/unmanned collaborative combat in future combat environments, accelerating the promotion of information and intelligent combat.

This aircraft has outstanding advantages such as high flight altitude and fast flight speed, which can effectively avoid the threat of ground anti-aircraft fire. The system has strong survivability and can perform reconnaissance, surveillance, tracking, and strike tasks continuously for a long time under weak adversarial conditions or in a certain level of adversarial warfare.

As the largest unmanned aerial vehicle platform in China in terms of takeoff weight, the Caihong-6 also has the ability to carry various payloads such as electro-optical, SAR, early warning radar, electronic reconnaissance, air to ground missiles, air to ground bombs, anti radiation missiles, and small and medium-sized patrol missiles. At the same time, due to the use of turbofan engines, it has a long endurance and can serve as a long-term airborne platform to perform various military and civilian tasks.

Source: Guoke Huanyu