A video released by China's arms firm Norinco Group on July 20, 2025 shows an unmanned armored vehicle launching a missile. Photo: Screenshot from the official WeChat account of Norinco Group

A top Chinese arms firm on Sunday released a video displaying an arsenal of drones and anti-drone techs in the ground domain, with an expert saying that China has successfully developed a complete system in unmanned warfare equipment, focusing on manned-unmanned integration, forming an even more complete system of coordinated combat.

The video, released by the state-owned Norinco Group, showed multiple types of unmanned equipment in action, including robot dogs, unmanned vehicles of different sizes equipped with different weapons and equipment, fixed wing drones and unmanned helicopters.

It also provided footage of how anti-drone equipment, such as air defense missiles, anti-aircraft artilleries and high-energy laser, shoot down drones.

Following the shifting focus of military technologies to informatization, intelligentization, unmanned equipment and systematic development, as well as the changes in the form of modern warfare, Norinco Group devoted more resources into the field of ground-domain drones, aerial drones and anti-drone technologies with new concepts and new methods of intelligent, network-centric distributed combat, the Global Times learned from the firm on Sunday.

According to the developer, it has formed a family of unmanned aerial vehicles covering high, medium and low altitudes, as well as far, medium and close ranges. These drones are in different configurations, such as fixed wing and rotor wing, and they are capable of both reconnaissance and attack missions.

When it comes to drone defense, the company has built a comprehensive anti-drone system featuring multiple layers of defense with both soft-kill and hard-kill capabilities, highlighted by air defense missiles, anti-aircraft artilleries and laser weapons.

The developer also said that unmanned equipment also empowers manned-unmanned coordinated combat, allowing traditional main battle ground equipment to hit targets at longer distances with higher accuracy, citing the video, which also shows that drones guided howitzers and multiple launch rocket systems to lock on their targets.

Fu Qianshao, a Chinese military affairs expert, told the Global Times on Sunday that China has now formed a relatively complete system of drone and anti-drone warfare equipment. He further noted that while the latest video is released by Norinco Group, a top Chinese arms firm responsible mainly for the development of ground-domain equipment, China's other weapon developers in the aviation and aerospace sectors are also engaged in drone and anti-drone development. 

Real combat results have shown that modern warfare requires systematic development of unmanned and intelligent equipment, Fu said. 

Another important dimension is the manned-unmanned integration and coordination. The aim should be to fuse unmanned equipment and manned systems in operations, forming an even more complete coordinated combat system in all combat domains on the ground, at sea, in the air, as well as in space, electromagnetic space and cyberspace, Fu said.