Chinese Yun-5B Aircraft Tested to Drop Fire-Fighting Bombs

China’s state-owned company Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) said its Yun-5B fire-fighting aircraft completed all tests involving dropping of fire-fighting bombs.

The Yun-5B fire-fighting aircraft has now entered the comprehensive final stage, laying a solid foundation for subsequent product development and airworthiness certification.

This aircraft integrates "patrol, inspection, combat, transmission, and evaluation" by improving and developing the Yun-5B aircraft as the basic platform. It fully inherits the advantages of the Y-5B aircraft, adopts a modular design concept, and is equipped with four 230kg satellite-guided fire extinguishing bombs. The fire extinguishing accuracy is less than 15m, and a single fire extinguishing area reaches 400sqm. After preliminary technical preparations and aircraft modification, on December 2, the Yun-5B aircraft carrying 4 fire extinguishing bombs took off and landed smoothly, completing the first flight with bombs. Subsequently, the flight verified related performances such as control stability, mission system joint test, air aiming and simulated bombing, and an analysis report was formed.

The Yun-5B fire-fighting aircraft has the functions of forest patrolling, fire-fighting/isolation, and view information transmission. Jetta's "emergency rescue" capability. The development of the aircraft meets the requirements of the "14th Five-Year Plan" emergency rescue development plan, meets the urgent needs of the construction of the national emergency rescue system, and will have a good application prospect in the field of emergency rescue.