http://english.chinamil.com.cn/view/2019-06/20/content_9535105.htm

“China’s top unmanned helicopter, the AV500, has successfully conducted its first night operation under challenging conditions, demonstrating its any-time, all-terrain capabilities, a result which Chinese analysts said on Thursday might increase the possibility for the Chinese military to put it into service and attract overseas buyers.

An AV500 took off and flew toward sea in a headwind of 15 meters per second at midnight on June 14 in South China’s Hainan Province. During the nighttime mission, the drone helicopter successfully located its target vessel with its electro-optical pod and transferred back clear infrared visuals, read a statement the helicopter department of the state-owned Aviation Industry of China (AVIC), the maker of the AV500, released on Wednesday.

During its flight, the AV500 overcame challenging environments including strong winds and high salinity and humidity, AVIC said in the statement, noting the operation proved the drone helicopter’s capability to operate at night.

In 2017, the company flew the AV500 in Northwest China’s Gansu Province, as it climbed to an altitude of 5,006 meters, a record for a domestically developed helicopter drone.

Through these tests, the AV500 has shown outstanding environmental adaptability and strong reliability, a military expert who requested anonymity told the Global Times on Thursday, noting that these characteristics could make the unmanned helicopter attractive to both domestic and international clients.

A drone helicopter could conduct patrol, reconnaissance, damage evaluation and attack missions for the military. It could also be deployed on missions relating to anti-terrorism, firefighting and disaster evaluation, the expert said.

AV500W, an armed reconnaissance variant of the AV500, successfully conducted a missile firing test in 2018, making it combat ready, AVIC said earlier.

It can carry a 175-kilogram payload and fly at a maximum speed of 170 kilometers an hour carrying laser-guided missiles or machine guns, the company said.

The AV500 also took part in a military exercise at the invitation of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and conducted a mock assault mission, China Aviation News reported in September 2018.

Since the PLA does not seem to have helicopter drones in service, it might consider adding one, the military expert suggested, noting that a helicopter drone is more flexible and offers unique advantages over traditional fixed wing drones.”

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/05/08/sailors-get-firsthand-look-navys-new-spy-6-radar-system.html

“It’s 100 times more sensitive than the existing SPY-1. It gives you that much more range, and that means the Navy can counteract that much quicker,” he said.”

Can this air defense also have a ICBM interception capability role?

There are some features I don’t see on the F-35 like fiber optics to monitor the composites of the aircraft and what pisses me off is a presentation of a hypersonic missile that looks like it was being carried externally on the F-35 defeating its purpose of stealth while it seems the Russians are focusing on an internal configuration making it seem that the SU-57 triumphs in SEAD because of it.. Although I don’t think the F-35 is by any means inferior because of the lack of this and that. Maybe some better details will be shown since it feels like most users here don’t have patience to wait for this coming airshow.

I would not say this subject is entirely off topic relating to the SU-57 but here we go

MAKS: Russia’s hypersonic scramjet experiment could fly by 2019

I have heard about a prototype missile that is supposedly 3 meters long travels at mach 6 with altitudes of 27kms(although it difficult to verify that as true for the GLL-AP-02) . Russia’s Gromov Flight Research Institute expects there prototype to fly 3-4 years. Can anyone confirm where the 3 meter length data came from for this prototype missile because I think that length(weight is no problem) can fit in the SU-57 but I have no idea on the diameter size. Here is a good read about Russia’s history with scramjet missiles http://www.russianspaceweb.com/kholod.html

Speaking of Tu-22M3M https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3662745.html

“Sight ST-22-1 is designed for use on land and sea targets and is equipped with automatic capture and target tracking devices. OJSC “Peleng” provided only limited information about ST-22-1, which was officially designated in the exhibition as “television system”. It is reported that the CT-22-1 has four switchable fields of view – wide (8 ° × 6 °), medium (4 ° × 3 °), narrow (2 ° × 1.5 °) and two-fold narrow (1 ° × 0 , 75 °) – in all cases with independent stabilization in the vertical and horizontal planes.According to the manufacturer, a narrow installation of the field of view allows you to detect a target the size of a tank at a distance of 15 km with a probability of up to 90%.

The sight optics has a range from -40 ° to + 70 ° vertically and ± 30 ° in the longitudinal direction, with a maximum speed of movement of 30 ° per second and a minimum speed of tracking the target within the line of sight of only 0.05 ° per second. “

http://www.rusarmyexpo.com/demo-events What equipment they will demonstrate.

http://www.rusarmyexpo.com/file_new.xp?idb=128634347&fn=%D0%9F%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%20%D0%90%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%8F%2030.05.2019.pdf&size=657678 And this is their floor plan. There are mentions of UAVs in there but also lasers so hopefully some info on the Peresvet can come out later