China has just flown a 16-ton unmanned aircraft built not to drop bombs itself, but to carry and release swarms of smaller drones, turning the sky into a layered, robotic battlespace. The maiden ...

While reports have identified the Jiutian as a “general-purpose drone,” concepts have shown it releasing drone swarms with a range of surface and maritime ...

China has successfully flown its Jetank unmanned aircraft, a heavy-lift drone called “airborne UAV carrier” by state media, for the first time.

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The key to achieving wartime victory through expendable drones lies in “saturation attacks based on numerical superiority”, ...

China conducted the maiden flight of what is considered to be the world’s largest drone mothership, underscoring its advances ...

Screenshot from People's Daily. China's Jetank drone, dubbed an "airborne UAV carrier," completed its maiden flight on ...

Video. A drone light show in Chongqing highlights China’s ability to control thousands of drones simultaneously using a ...

A novel uncrewed aircraft unveiled by China in late 2024 to deploy large numbers of small drones has recently logged its first flight. Known alternatively as the “Jetank” or “Jiutian”, the large ...

Exclusive: Australian scientists are working alongside China’s top military university – the one answering to Xi Jinping’s ...

Taiwan has big plans for making more drones, but there are industry and economic hurdles to overcome, including getting more ...

Large numbers of UAVs in concentrated formations will allow ‘optimal combat effectiveness with minimal battlefield ...