BEIJING: The record of “five hits in succession” performed by China’s home-developed Wing Loong II UAS, a high-end reconnaissance-strike unmanned aerial system (UAS), showed that the system equipped drone is combat-capable and will be widely used in future military actions. An expert said.
After multiple rounds of flight and firing tests, the Wing Loong II UAS has conducted firing tests with eight types of missiles and dozens of bombs, with a hit rate of 100 percent, the Xinhua News Agency reported, citing the State-owned aviation giant of Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC).
“The Wing Loong II UAS has successfully hit five targets in succession with five different types of missiles in a single sortie, setting a new live firing record for Chinese UAS,” AVIC said.
“Successful tests over different terrains with different types of missiles and bombs showed that the Wing Loong II is equipped to effectively handle combat operations,” Song Zhongping, a Chinese military expert, told the Global Times.
As drones are increasingly used in global military actions, the Wing Loong II will be deployed in China’s future military actions, especially in anti-terrorism, peace keeping and border patrol operations, said Song.
Meanwhile, the Wing Loong II UAS has successfully conducted simultaneous operations from a single ground station which had never been achieved by a Chinese UAS before.
Li Yidong, deputy chief designer of CADI, said in a television broadcast by China Central Television in December that the drone had successfully hit a moving target that the US counterpart had failed to hit for eight years. INP
