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News Source Record

# News Source Record

**L-Ne / Open-source news extract** — Original media coverage of unmanned aerial systems.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Collection date | 14 December 2011 |
| Platform | Quiet Systems |
| Data label | Open-source news record // LRRK collection product |
| Handling | Public-source material. Image rights require separate verification before publication. |
| Scale | National |
| Language | Chinese |
| Terms matched | 无人机; BZK-006; BZK-005 |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Outlet | 中国新闻网 (Chinanews / 中新网) |
| Title | 外媒：中国产大型无人机 可做数千公里战略侦察 |
| Dateline | 编辑:王金志 |
| First publisher | no |
| Original URL | http://www.chinanews.com/gn/2011/12-14/3532483.shtml |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2011-12-14|chinanews|kanwa-bzk005-tongzhou-meizhou |
| Source grade | C3 |

## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — C3]** Chinanews digested the December issue of Canada's Kanwa Defence Review. The digest said a Chinese navy fleet passing Okinawa waters in June had used an unmanned aircraft photographed by Japan's Air Self-Defense Force. Kanwa said PLA UAV forces were growing in hardware and software and that UAV bases were modern, with complete hangars — for example Meizhou airport in Guangdong and Tongzhou airport in Beijing. It guessed Meizhou hosted a tactical type seen at the 2009 parade, called BZK-006. Tongzhou's hangars were large: 12 green-roofed bays, dedicated garages, two large satellite antennas, four-plus dish antennas, and an advanced green headquarters cluster. A CATIC video at Zhuhai 2006 and Moscow 2009 had shown a large reconnaissance UAV called BZK-005, apparently offered for export; picture comparison suggested about 12 large UAVs at Tongzhou were this type. Stated figures: 40-hour endurance, 1,250 kg MTOW, 150 kg payload, large EO pod (day/night TV and a "firebird" camera), 150–180 km/h, 8,000 m cruise, a large satcom antenna; no airborne radar seen on the video.

**Kinematic object.** BZK-005 large recce UAV (claimed at Tongzhou); BZK-006 tactical type (claimed at Meizhou); unnamed PLAN UAV photographed near Okinawa in June.

**Coverage frame.** military / industry

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original: first Chinese-language page fetched of this Kanwa digest, kept for national Chinese coverage of a named large UAV type.
- Wire reprint status: Explicit 外媒 / Kanwa digest — first publisher no.
- What was excluded: the 2010 Zhuhai show-floor original (separate year/identity). Kanwa's own English page was not fetched.

## LRRK relevance

Watch / Passport. A Watch desk would have recorded a Chinese wire circulating hangar counts at Tongzhou/Meizhou and BZK-005 performance numbers from a Canadian journal.

*LRRK — security assurance for systems that sense, move, and act.*

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