CASIC HW-600 series

unmanned aerial vehicle An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board. UAVs are a component of an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), which includes adding a ground-based controller ...

s are Chinese UAVs developed by 3rd Academy Hiwing (or HW for short, 海鹰in Chinese) of

China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation The China Aerospace Science & Industry Corporation Limited (CASIC) is a Chinese state-owned enterprise that designs, develops and manufactures a range of spacecraft, launch vehicles, strategic and tactical missile systems, and ground equipment ...

(CASIC), and this academy is also more commonly known as HiWING Mechanical and Electrical Technology Corp, (海鹰机电技术研究院, the exact literal translation of its Chinese name is actually Sea Eagle Mechanical and Electrical Technology Research Academy) or HiWING for short.

HW-600 Sky Hawk (WJ-600)

HW-600 Sky Hawk (Tian-Yi or Tianying, 天鹰), this HiWING developed UAV is a jet-powered

UCAV An unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), also known as a combat drone, colloquially shortened as drone or battlefield UAV, is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is used for intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance ...

. The

turbojet The turbojet is an airbreathing jet engine which is typically used in aircraft. It consists of a gas turbine with a propelling nozzle. The gas turbine has an air inlet which includes inlet guide vanes, a compressor, a combustion chamber, and ...

powered HW-600 Sky Hawk has a conventional layout with high-

wing configuration The wing configuration of a fixed-wing aircraft (including both glider (aircraft), gliders and powered aeroplanes) is its arrangement of lifting and related surfaces. Aircraft designs are often classified by their wing configuration. For examp ...

and small

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s. The engine is in the aft section of the cylindrical fuselage, and the inlet is atop of the fuselage at the root of the single vertical tail fin. There is a single hardpoint under each wing, which is designed to carry a variety of Chinese UAV employed missiles and other munitions. Sensors are presumably stored in the bulbous nose. Also known as WJ-600, there are Chinese internet claims that HW-600 is the designation for the unarmed reconnaissance version, while WJ-600 is the designation for the armed UCAV version. However, such unconfirmed claims have yet to be verified by official governmental / industrial / independent sources. Reportedly, WJ is short for Wu-Jian (无歼), short for Wu-Ren Jian-Ji-Ji (无人歼击机), meaning unmanned fighter because

MANPAD Man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS or MPADS) are portable surface-to-air missiles. They are guided weapons and are a threat to low-flying aircraft, especially helicopters. Overview MANPADS were developed in the 1950s to provide military ...

s can be deployed by this UCAV as air-to-air missiles. Specification: *Speed: 200 m/s *Ceiling: 10 km *Operational range: 2100 km *Launch: rocket *Recovery: parachute *Payload: 130 kg *Endurance: 3 - 5 hr

HW-610

CASIC HW-610 is an

powered by jet. In addition to carrying out traditional reconnaissance missions, the UAV can also be armed to perform ground attack mission. HW-610 is a development of the unarmed version of earlier HW(WJ)-600 and shares the similar design layout. There are two hardpoints with one under each wing to carry missiles for land attack missions. Specification: *Length (m): 6.5 *Wingspan (mm): 6.8 *Take-off weight (t): 1 *Payload (kg): 130 *Endurance (hr): 3 – 5 *Speed (km/hr): 500 – 700 *Remote control radius (km): 350 *Max wind scale allowed for operation: 8 – 9 *Launch: Rocket assisted take-off *Recovery: parachute

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* : an undisclosed number of WJ-600A/D appear to be in service of

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HW-600 Sky Hawk (WJ-600)

HW-610

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