Wing Loong-2H

2022: Start of artificial amplification of precipitation using drones

On October 3, 2022, the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) announced that Wing Loong-2H, a large civilian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), successfully conducted a cloud seeding operation in the Qinghai-Tibet Highlands.

Wing Loong - 2H detected cloud accumulation over Amni Machen Ridge in Sanjiangyuan District and successfully carried out artificial intensification of rainfall in the form of rain and snow, AVIC, the country's leading aircraft manufacturer, said in a statement.

In China, began to artificially increase precipitation using drones

The purpose of the operation is to improve cloud seeding capacity on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which is of great importance for ensuring stable life and agricultural livestock production, as well as for exploring ways to combat climate change.

This operation is carried out jointly by the Weather Modification Center under the Meteorological Administration of China (CMA), the Meteorological Observation Center under the CMA, the AVIC unit (Chengdu City) to develop an unmanned aerial vehicle system and many other units.

According to AVIC, the drone was equipped with special equipment to detect cloud clusters, study their characteristics and structure, as well as equipment to increase precipitation.

It is estimated that during the operation of the system, which lasted about five hours, the operation to increase the amount of precipitation affected the area of ​ ​ up to 15 thousand square meters. km, AVIC reported.

Wing Loong-2H 's work is part of the UAV testing of the Plateau Rainfall Increase System. Its goal is to increase snowfall and ice cover in glacier areas on the plateau.

In 2018 China , he tested the weather modification system, which made it possible to increase the amount of precipitation in the Tibetan Highlands to 10 billion cubic meters using a network of combustion chambers. m per year.^[1][2]

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