Small UAS / Drones and related general thread - NOT Swarming ones.

Forest Green said:
We've seen these small drones dropping bombs on stationary targets lots, but this one seems to be able to target moving vehicles accurately.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1876296783753777507
View: https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1876296783753777507
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So another SA-11 Gadfly battery bites the dust, I wonder how many Ukraine has destroy so far? Anyway this shows that there's been a steep improvement of the drones tech and drone tactics since the beginning of the invasion.
 
I don't understand the choice to have the mid-section being removable. It forces them to have the structural weight elevated what is not good for hoovering hovering conditions.
Same with the fenestron. A fenestron being less adaptable and requiring more power than an open rotor.
 
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Nope nope nopety nope. To give a hoover a decent chance of ingesting one of these, weight must be minimalised. I would think that is obvious.
 
Getting kilometers worth of fiber-optic cable caught up on trees, powerlines, and everything else sounds fun. IDK how much such lengths of fiber-optics cost these days, but I think it makes a lot more sense to reserve that for certain types of guided missiles, i.e. Spike-ER/NLOS or EFOGM.
 
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Tu-160M factory hit.

www.twz.com

Extremely Low Altitude Shootdown Of Ukrainian Drone By Russian SAM Caught On Video

The dramatic interception in western Russia, purportedly by a Pantsir air defense system, came as Ukraine targeted a key missile manufacturing plant. The dramatic interception in western Russia, purportedly by a Pantsir air defense system, came as Ukraine targeted a key missile manufacturing plant.
www.twz.com www.twz.com

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCnOG6VW5kw

https://twitter.com/x/status/1881249448514515164
View: https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1881249448514515164
 
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I love the way they use commune ustensils for their application (see the unwinding case in forefront).
When I designed my own tethered UAS, back in 2014, I used a sheet metal part :D

Rugged is beautiful.
 
GA-ASI'sTailored EMALS for Naval drone launch:

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www.navalnews.com

General Atomics Pitches Drone Launch System for US and Allied Warships - Naval News

General Atomics unveiled concepts for the installation of a drone launch system derived from EMALS on a destroyer and support vessel.
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Forest Green said:
^In the meantime I guess they could interface a BONUS/SMART skeet to an ordinary FPV somehow.
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They could, but arming it would be tricky.

There should however be lots of off-route mines lying about, particularly from France, that utilise EFP's..far easier to trigger, and leaves skeets where they belong on shells to fire.
 
Forest Green said:
^In the meantime I guess they could interface a BONUS/SMART skeet to an ordinary FPV somehow.
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Well if the US has any surplus M18A1 Claymore mines in stock i'm sure the Ukrainians could quickly modify some of their FPV drones to carry them and do horrible things to Nork and Russian cannon-meat.
 
NMaude said:
Well if the US has any surplus M18A1 Claymore mines in stock i'm sure the Ukrainians could quickly modify some of their FPV drones to carry them and do horrible things to Nork and Russian cannon-meat.
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Everyone has already been sending every claymore they can lay their hands on to Ukraine already, and they're all needed to defend positions I'm afraid. Thanks to the Ottawa Convention the West is hugely short of any AP mines that the Ukrainians could really use to protect their infntry.
 
timmymagic said:
Thanks to the Ottawa Convention the West is hugely short of any AP mines that the Ukrainians could really use to protect their infntry.
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One of the few bright spots to this conflict is both that and the Convention on Cluster Munitions, aka the Dublin Treaty, are now pretty much dead and buried bar the hair pulling, wailing and weeping.
 
Grey Havoc said:
One of the few bright spots to this conflict is both that and the Convention on Cluster Munitions, aka the Dublin Treaty, are now pretty much dead and buried bar the hair pulling, wailing and weeping.
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They're dead and buried in that the countries who hven't signed are unlikely to do so....

But there is zero movement whatsover for the Europen countries who have abandoned Mines and Cluster Munitions to re-equip...outside of defence commentators and forums...
 
Grey Havoc said:
One of the few bright spots to this conflict is both that and the Convention on Cluster Munitions, aka the Dublin Treaty, are now pretty much dead and buried bar the hair pulling, wailing and weeping.
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Righto. Just waiting for the burial of treaties that concern the use of biological and chemical weapons. Anthrax, anyone?
 

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