Rotorcraft
China Completes Testing of Unmanned Helicopter
Aircraft can execute shipboard landings.

China’s Shenyang Institute of Automation and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have completed test flights of the Xiangying 200, claimed to be the country’s first indigenous “large” unmanned helicopter. By dimensions, appearance, and capabilities, the helicopter is virtually identical to an older-model, kit-built American Rotorway 162F, and what differences that do exist could be accounted for by changes to the main rotor system on the Xiangying 200.