the explosive sends shrapnel over the selected section of the plane, riddling it with holes, unless crashed into a particular section when detonating, causing irreparable damage or fire.
Posted on 09/01/2023 2:50:24 PM PDT by dennisw
Like Briton and Russia in Ww2, that is a ridiculous comment
Like the one that says if they are winning why do they need more stuff
Hey you guys landed on Normandy, we’ll that’s it on your own…
Sigh
Latest?
Hum haven’t seen t-14s but have t-55s, where is their 57, and remember the unstoppable hypersonic not so much missile.
There is little that is high tech, and if what you say is true then it is even more embarrassing for Putin and Russia that in a year and a half. Russia is in at best a stalemate, I would say they are cracking
Maybe time to pull out their ace in the hole Is-2 Stalin tanks
I want to see the damaged aircraft. It sounds like a scam-gimmick to me.
*bump* lol
The story is bullcrap as there is no evidence of it took place, which is the case for most Ukrainian claims of late.
I’m curious how those things can fly over 100km, much less actually hit a target. Or were they launched by sabotage teams hanging out at the end of the runway?
That thing is at best only marginally stable
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I’m no expert but I remember from my RC airplane days that a flat bottom airfoil was the most stable profile. That is what this drone has.
OTOH, the wing has little or no dihedral angle — which is to say it extends straight out rather than rising towards the tips. A flat wing with low dihedral is a less stable configuration IIRC.
And it looks like the distance from the CG to the vertical stabilizer is unusually short, which I could see reducing stability.
But to my eyeball it doesn’t look fundamentally unstable.
What is it that makes you say it’s unstable?
Lack of dihedral alone would require constant input. Would not fly “hands-off” for more than a few seconds. Yes, flat-bottom airfoils exhibit a low shift of center-of-pressure vs. angle-of-attack, but that short tail moment would require a very sensitive hand on the elevators. Picture control-line combat designs.
An interesting aside - Lindberg’s Spirit of St. Louis had no dihedral. He wanted it that way so as to help him stay awake, or so he said afterward.
Okay, got it — makes sense.
In the past month, cheap drones have taken out $1.2 billion worth of Russian equipment.
Russia is using the latest military weapons ... Circa 1990 T54/T55 tanks
Paper airplanes have destroyed $1.2 billion in Russian high value military assets this MONTH.
They fly from secret UA bases inside Russia ...
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