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China Stages Multiple Loyal-Wingman Drones for Victory Day Parade

Open-source images of full-scale CCA airframes moving through parade staging areas highlight China’s push to integrate uncrewed systems into its military modernization.

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The unnamed CCA on the back of a truck alongside other systems like rotary wing UAVs and what appear to be Unmanned Surface Vessels. (Image credit: REautomaton/SDF via Andreas Rupprecht )

Overview

  • Corroborated open-source images show multiple full-scale CCA and loyal-wingman drone airframes on trucks being positioned for the Sept. 3 Victory Day parade in Beijing.
  • At least five distinct drone designs have been identified, including an FH-97-inspired model, larger tailless flying-wing variants, cranked-kite wing types and a compact intermeshing-rotor VTOL UAV.
  • Analysts caution that China’s history of non-flying parade mockups makes it unclear which displayed platforms are operational systems versus demonstrators.
  • Preparations also feature new hypersonic-candidate missiles, large uncrewed underwater and surface vessels, armored vehicles and directed-energy equipment.
  • Observers say the parade reveal signals the PLA’s accelerating shift toward an integrated crewed-uncrewed force built around networked CCAs, J-20S controllers and carrier-based operations.