PRC is Expanding UAV Base

Beijing announced plans to build a base for coastal reconnaissance UAV. This movement aims to improve the quality of monitoring the Chinese coast, and is associated with the ongoing territorial disputes in the region.

This information was given on Wednesday by the Chinese official press organ, agency Xinhua, citing the representatives of the government apparatus. The ultimate goal is the construction of 11 bases along the coast of the PRC, in the coastal province of the country. Bezzałogowce stationed in them will be used to patrol and monitor the Chinese coast, and the belt of territorial waters (and ultimately the exclusive economic zones). In the area of ​​any such installation has stationed at least one UAV. Do not, however, given that it will be models of machines.

PRC for many years, however, leads work on the design and development (and copy) indigenous unmanned systems, such as ASN-209 reconnaissance. In June of this year., The media revealed a combat UAV designs Beijing.

As noted by Xinhua, already in 2011 PRC conducted a pilot program in the north-eastern province of Liaoning. Specially hired for the purpose UAV, perform flights over population of 980 km 2 area. A separate test, using specialized observation systems, was conducted at the beginning of this year.

To the information provided should be viewed from a distance. State media in the PRC are often used by the authorities in an information war. Despite this, however, plans to build 11 installations along the coast appear to be real. Especially in the context of the deliberations of the PRC territorial disputes in the waters of the South China Sea.