{"id":1541895,"date":"2025-06-15T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1541895"},"modified":"2025-06-15T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T03:15:00","slug":"spy-satellite-uncovers-massive-stealth-flying-wing-at-secretive-chinese-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/spy-satellite-uncovers-massive-stealth-flying-wing-at-secretive-chinese-base\/1541895\/","title":{"rendered":"Spy Satellite Uncovers\u00a0Massive Stealth Flying Wing At\u00a0Secretive Chinese Base"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spy Satellite Uncovers\u00a0Massive Stealth Flying Wing At\u00a0Secretive Chinese Base<\/span><\/p>\n

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China is well aware that Western spy satellites<\/strong>, including those operated by the U.S., maintain constant overhead surveillance of high-value military assets, such as bases and research facilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The deliberate exposure<\/strong> of a previously unseen, large, low-observable flying-wing HALE (High-Altitude Long-Endurance) unmanned aerial vehicle<\/strong> at the Malan test facility may not have been an accident<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Instead, it appears to be a deliberate act of signaling by Beijing<\/strong> to the Trump administration, highlighting the rapid acceleration of China’s next-generation air combat capabilities<\/strong> at a time when the global security environment is rapidly deteriorating.<\/p>\n

With the war in Ukraine ongoing and tensions in the Middle East escalating into a hot crisis<\/a>,\u00a0Beijing’s timing suggests an intent to assert technological parity and deterrence against the U.S<\/strong>.\u00a0Broadly speaking, the world is entering a more dangerous and unstable era \u2014 a shift from a unipolar world with the U.S. in control to a bipolar geopolitical order<\/strong>, where volatility is expected to intensify throughout the 2030s.<\/p>\n

The War Zone’s Tyler Rogoway<\/a> cited new satellite spy images<\/strong> via\u00a0Planet Labs that show the previously unseen HALE drone at a\u00a0secretive test base near Malan in Xinjiang province<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Massive Stealth Flying Wing Emerges At Secretive Chinese Base<\/p>\n

This appears to be China’s largest high-altitude, long-endurance drone, and one that has clear low observable qualities.<\/p>\n

Exclusivehttps:\/\/t.co\/NNbs6SyxCq<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Tyler Rogoway (@Aviation_Intel) June 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

“Specifically, the craft was parked outside of a sprawling new facility that was built very recently to the east of the base, connected to it by a very long taxiway leading to a security gate,”\u00a0Rogoway said.<\/p>\n

Source: TWZ<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Rogoway pointed out the\u00a0drone’s design resembles that of the B-21 Raider and possibly the U.S. RQ-180<\/strong>, with clipped wingtips, a domed center section (likely housing engines or systems), and possibly small vertical stabilizers to aid flight stability.<\/p>\n

Source: TWZ<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

This drone may mark a\u00a0significant leap in China’s next-generation drone\u00a0combat ecosystem, possibly supporting or integrating with other platforms, such as the H-20 bomber, J-36, and smaller tactical drones \u2014 mirroring the U.S. approach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSun, 06\/15\/2025 – 19:15<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bhttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/military\/spy-satellites-uncover-massive-stealth-flying-wing-secretive-chinese-base<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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