盘点世界先进无人机
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Making an Inventory of the World's Advanced Unmanned Aircraft
2013年11月21日下午13时，中国国产隐身无人作战飞机“利剑”成功首飞。“利剑”的首飞，使得中国成为世界第四个试飞大型隐身无人攻击机的国家，意味着中国已经实现了从无人机向无人作战飞机的跨越，其重大意义不亚于歼-20等新型第四代战机的试飞。
On November 21, 2013, at one o'clock in the afternoon, China's homemade unmanned stealth fighter "Sharp Sword" successfully undertook its first flight. With the maiden flight of "Sharp Sword", China became the world's fourth nation to test large unmanned stealth attack planes in flight. This implies, China has already lept over from [the stage of simple] unmanned planes to [that of] unmanned combat planes. The essential significance of which [lies in] the test flight of some new type of fighter planes [belonging to] the fourth generation and [which is] not inferior to the [Chengdu J-20] 歼-20 class [of regular Chinese combat planes].
"Sharp Sword" during its 20 minutes maiden flight.
除“利剑”外，中国还有“翼龙”、“彩虹”等多款无人攻击机。美英法等传统航天强国在无人机发展方面也走在前列，已经拥有并在研多种性能卓越的无人作战飞机。以色列的无人机在世界上也占有非常重要的地位。伊朗等后起之秀也在大力发展无人作战飞机。飞行员根本不用上天，仅需控制台前轻轻点击按钮，便能决胜万里之外，无人作战飞机已然成为新空军力量。以下为世界主要无人作战飞机盘点。
Besides "Sharp Sword", China has at its disposal the "Winged Dragon" and the "Rainbow" as multi-pattern unmanned attack planes. America, Britain and France as powerful nations regarding spaceflight [ ? better: aviation 航空], are also moving in the forefront when it comes to the development of unmanned planes. They already possess and are studying multi-functional and remarkable unmanned combat planes.
The Chinese text then mentions the development of unmanned planes in Israel and Iran. Moreover, it points out the additional power unmanned combat planes can provide for a country's air force. Under that aspect the article's goal to make an inventory of available unmanned aircraft in China and abroad has been established.
In one of the following chapters the article is discussing the outer appearance of the "Winged Dragon" which seems to be the very image of the U.S. "Predator" device. The Chinese version should be propelled by a 100 horsepower engine, its overall weight at take-off reaching 1.100 kg. The Winged Dragon can cruise up to 20 hours and reach a maximum altitude of 5.000 m.
China's unmanned combat plane "Winged Dragon".
China's unmanned combat plane "Rainbow 4".
The "Rainbow" plane is available in two versions named Rainbow 3 / Rainbow 4. The type 4 version has a wing span of 18 m. Its overall weight at take-off being 1.330 kg, the Rainbow plane provides for a payload of 350 kg. Maximum cruising time is 40 hours.
[Source: People's Network 人民网—中新网 on November 23, 2013.]
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