On August 2, a Chinese Wuzhan-10 reconnaissance plane turned on the ADS-B signal, took off from Hainan Island and then traveled south along the Viet Nam coastline about 100 kilometers outside Nha Trang in southern Viet Nam before returning, according to Reuters, citing a South China Sea research institute.
No Detective-10
Since this is a Reuters media report, there is no other relevant official information, whether this news is accurate or not remains to be confirmed, here is just a hypothesis that the Reuters source is reliable, on this basis we will comment.
Wuzhen-10 export type, also called Pterodactyl-10, is the world's first large-scale electronic warfare UAV, 9 meters long, 3.7 meters high, wingspan 18 meters, take-off weight is about 3.2 tons, the ceiling can reach about 16000 meters, it is equipped with two turbofan engines, it is speculated that the combat radius of this type of UAV can reach about 1800 kilometers, the range is 4000 kilometers, and the endurance time can reach more than 8 hours, which is more powerful than the general manned combat aircraft.
No Detective-10
The biggest feature of the Wuzhen-10 UAV is that it has a full-band passive radar reconnaissance system, which can quietly detect the opponent's large air defense radar or surface ships at a distance of 400 kilometers, once the radar signal captures the opponent's radar signal, Wuzhen-10 can also quickly start its own electronic warfare equipment and electronic warfare pods, and comprehensively suppress the opponent's radar, it is also an electronic warfare UAV with stealth capabilities, and it adopts a stealth shape design, and also uses stealth paint and stealth materials, Among drones, the stealth ability is also a super existence.
Although China and Vietnam have a special history in the seventies and eighties, but Viet Nam under the leadership of former General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, Sino-Vietnamese relations are generally good, now Viet Nam has a new leader, it is said that maintaining Sino-Vietnamese friendly relations is beneficial to both countries, but it remains to be seen whether there will be new changes, but in terms of feeling, Viet Nam has made some moves during this period, which is worthy of our attention.
Nguyen Phu Trong
For example, on July 17, Viet Nam submitted an application to the United Nations Commission on the Outer Continental Shelf for the delimitation of its outer continental shelf, which seriously violated China's maritime sovereignty, and Viet Nam and the Philippines will hold the first joint coast guard exercise in Manila Bay in the Philippines on August 9.
Half a month after Nguyen Phu Trong's death on 19 July, as soon as Surin took office, he sent Nguyen Xuan Thanh, chairman of the Central Theoretical Committee of Viet Nam, to visit United States, saying that he would focus on discussing the issue of United States' recognition of Viet Nam's market economy status, but this also showed that Surin attached importance to developing Vietnamese-US relations.
Surin
How Viet Nam develops Vietnamese-US relations is their own business, and China is nothing to blame, but if Viet Nam only wants to maintain normal state relations with China, then China can only maintain normal relations with it, since it is a normal relationship, Chinese drones flying along the coast of Viet Nam on the high seas is a normal action, and besides, the actions of Viet Nam just mentioned, has it considered China's feelings? Since it does not care about China's feelings, there is no need for China to think too much about the other side's feelings.
China's dispatch of stealth drones to reconnoiter Viet Nam's coastal areas is just the right for us to exercise our rights and to test the stability of Sino-Vietnamese relations, which can be described as an ingenious action combining politics and military.