Chinese designed and built UAS will descend on the US capital…… not under their own power, but by a US transport cargo jet. These Chinese unmanned surveillance aircraft will be on display at this year’s AUVSI show in Washington D.C.
The exhibitor displaying their UAS systems is the company Hubei Ewatt Technology Co., LTD., located in Wuhan China. Ewatt is one of the largest suppliers of imported equipment to the Chinese State Power Electrical Grid. Ewatt entered the UAS business to fill a need that the State Power Grid has for a more safe means of power-line inspections, which lead them to develop their first UAS systems.
Ewatt founder and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Zhao Guocheng will attend the show with 4 other company executives that will help man the display. One of these Ewatt company officers is Technical Director of VTOL Vehicles Mr. Dennis Fetters, an American living and working in China for 4 years now.
Mr. Fetters most resent accomplishment is his fully autonomous SVU-200 Heavy-Lift multipurpose UAV helicopter for Hunan Sunward Science and Technology Co., LTD., in Changsha China. The SVU-200 was designed and manufactured 100% in China by Mr. Fetters and his Chinese design team, except for some electrical components.
The SUV-200 is not an existing helicopter converted to a UAS, but was designed from the ground up as a “large helicopter made small” and not a “small RC helicopter made big”, like most all other UAS helicopters to date. All parts were specifically designed and built for this project and are unique, using custom-made geared transmissions and tail-rotor drive shafts. Therefore the SVU-200 has the same construction as a full-size manned helicopter, along with the same reliability and longevity as a full-size manned helicopter. This detail to quality is due to the fact that today’s electronic payloads can easily be more valuable than the cost of the helicopter.
Source: Press Release