U.S. vs. China: The Design and Technology Behind Military Drones | WSJ

China is expanding its military arsenal with new drones, including stealth versions and those that can swarm and drop bombs.

WSJ compares the tech and design of these drones with their U.S. counterparts to see how Beijing is equipping its military for possible future conflict.

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[collins]

Almost every American military industrial complex organizations describes themselves as non-profit organization

[dickiewongtk]

I love how the media is trying the best to drum up the Chinese “threat” while the experts are trying their best to downplay Chinese technology advancement.

[MGZetta]

If a country's military equipment and technology are not used in combat, it is not a drag, it's a compliment.

[wogelson]

0:54 oh yes the best stealth drone, the B-2

[danwelterweight]

99% of the Chinese military is within the Chinese border.

The US had over 800 military bases around the world with hundreds of thousands of soldiers outside it's territory, 300 of those bases encircling China.

[clovertechdev]

China doesn’t need to fly to Hawai’i, only to defend China sovereignty.

[chenzhang]

There are only a handful of people in the comment area who have been to China, but they seem to know China very well😄

[longlonglo]

How arrogant and funny to talk about China threat when us and UK aircraft carriers are on China's doorstep...

[justinkase]

The US has lots of experience. That’s not something you should be proud of.

[marvinfok]

Chinese drones had been used in real combat in Libya. China sold their drones to UAE who send them to Libya fighting the opposite forces which deployed Turkey's Bayraktar TB2 drones.

[-Teca-]

Just look at how were reaching the military tech level of Black Ops 2 :D

[birdangry]

For industrial countries such as China and the United States, simply comparing military spending is meaningless because their domestic purchasing power is different.

[Rajeevinsane]

To know how great they are, there is a good example. DJI .

[plutonakamoto]

But USA 🇺🇸 buys drone from China 🇨🇳, why you didn’t report that. 😂😂😂

[alvirarahman]

A valiant effort to highlight the use of drone technology in wars but NOT mentioning the most coveted of the Drone battle in mankind history: the Nagorno Karabakh war (2020)

[ibrahimn]

When you money is not backed by gold but military power .
Any other countries which are out of military reach will be cause for concern.
China just wants to build enough military power to make any country think twice before they attack.
China tec is getting better all the time and they are building up a nice group of countries to become allied with.

[jasonyau]

And this is why China actually created and deployed Beidou, their version of GPS 🤔😉🤨

[albertchu]

At least Chinese drones don’t kills innocent people like US drones. A good example are Afghanistan wars, how many innocent people have they kills but not punish for their actions !!!

[dreykim]

Military version of: you can copy my homework, just don't make it obvious

[joshieepophide-hide]

Swarm drones will be very effective to missile defense systems. It needs lots of missiles to destroy a group of swarm drones while it only need 1 drone to disrupt or destroy enemy missile defense installations that cost 1000x more than the swarm drones.