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Sky Wing is a series of Chinese UAVs developed by Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group. Three members of the Sky Wing series have been revealed by their developer, the smaller Sky Wing I or Sky Wing 1 and its derivative Sky Wing 1H , and finally the much larger Sky Wing III or Sky Wing 3. The larger Sky Wing III has been frequently, but erroneously, referred to as Tianchi , or Xianglong , the name of another Chinese UAV designed by Guizhou Aircraft Industry Corporation for similar functions.
The cause of such confusion is that when Sky Wing was first revealed to the public at airshows and exhibitions at the proposal stage, no name was given and later only the SW designation was shown, and SW, the abbreviation of Sky Wing can either be translated as Tianchi or Tianyi, and Chinese military enthusiasts used Tianchi on their internet posts. However, Tianchi is not the Chinese name for Sky Wing III, because the developer finally revealed the name is actually Tianyi instead.