Defence / China / Geopolitics / Technology
Jiutian and the Geometry of Reach: China’s High Altitude Drone Carrier Across the Himalayas and the Pacific
China’s Jiutian high-altitude unmanned aircraft is not a superweapon, but it alters the geometry of airpower. By operating above terrain and distance constraints, it pressures two theatres at once: the Himalayan frontier and the Western Pacific. The real issue is not penetration, but cost, persistence, and defensive arithmetic.