China is looking to develop its future helicopters to respond to super choppers that will be part of the modernized equipment needed in a great power competition. The People's Liberation Army appears to be making serious efforts to prepare for the future battleground. High technologies will be features part of next-generation Chinese rotorcraft needed to compete with adversaries.
Chinese High Tech Helicopters
According to the Global Times, a senior Chinese military helicopter designer revealed the probable important elements of future choppers during a recent public speech.
These features include fast speeds and artificial intelligence (AI). It gives an idea of the country's next-generation helicopter, with totally new designs and configurations. Several US helicopters were mentioned in the bringing to service the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor transport aircraft, but the new S-97 Raider and SB-1 Defiant helicopters are undergoing tests, cited Defense PK.
On Sunday, Wu Ximing, deputy chairman of the Chinese Aeronautical Establishment, conducted a lecture in the China Science and Technology Museum and said that helicopters should be like the -97 Raider and SB-1 Defiant, which are faster.
Helicopters will change radically from earlier types; more advanced helos will fly 300 kilometers an hour. Wu is the main designer of the Z-10 assault helicopter, reported the Eurasian Times.
Helicopter designers would have to explore and innovate to attain maximum speeds while keeping vertical takeoff and landing capabilities. He said that most helicopters ought to be able to reach high speeds in ten years.
According to helicopter manufacturers, at least two models of helicopters with revolutionary designs have flown in test flights. The other is a blended-wing body multi-rotor vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a unique design that will be the future helicopter of China.
Creating lethal helicopters
High tech system like a digital helmet or screen that will be using AI to omit a helicopter's control levers; using the pilot's commands instead.
Wu said it could also provide recommendations on flight paths and even make independent judgments in challenging situations or complex missions. The incorporation of advanced tech should lessen a pilot's workload. The use of AI will allow different modes of helicopter flight, tandem or multiple automatic control, even flying on its own to finish a mission.
Development of 5G and 6G as wireless tech will enable rotorcraft to be smarter but needs to be linked to a ground station. It will improve such aircraft in the future.
The US is competing with Beijing in developing advanced AI. PLA has to beat the US in applying artificial intelligence to win future battles or lose. Modern warfare is influenced by such advanced AI tech to enhance more combat-related tasks.
Gen. James McConville, US Army Chief of Staff, remarked they should change how to fight and every factor to improve their chances of winning. He added that the fleet of helicopters is almost five decades old and needs to be replaced, and more modern systems like modern AI; also work with robotic rotorcraft.
The contest between China and the US to get the first future helicopter is tied to the Indo-Pacific, where Beijing is getting the edge that Washington does not like.
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