Jiangsu Tianyu to work on unmanned helicopter
Jiangsu Tianyu Aviation Technology and the 60th Research Institute of the General Staff Department of the Chinese Army have signed a partnership for an unmanned helicopter project, it was announced in early September.
The approximately $150 million project will focus on the research and development, production and sales of several products including large- and medium-sized unmanned helicopters and related components.
The project will also cover the design and development of mid- and high-level fixed wings, specialty stealth materials, UAV systems, agricultural machinery, platform mission payload and precision information acquisition processing systems.
A 200,000sqm facility in Changzhou National Hi-Tech District (Xinbei District) has been selected as the base for the project.
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