Posted on 08/31/2023 8:07:44 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Cardboard Drones were effectively used to destroy Russian jets in Ukraine. Cardboard drones are a cost effective solution (a few thousand dollars including military grade-guidance systems and explosions) to destroy Russian aviation ($10+ Million dollar planes). They are also difficult to detect by radar.
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If this is true, wouldn’t that work against us?
I think the current issue is where the drones that attacked Pskov came from.
they are not a few thousand dollars, but making lots of super cheap autonomous drones is something darpa has been working on for long time. I have seen a bunch of articles in the past few days discussing this.
that is not a coincidence
Our crossdressers in the BananAmerica military aren't getting any real world experience in this type of warfare.
Well, except for the American "advisors" on the ground in The Ukraine.
“If this is true, wouldn’t that work against us?”
Possibly. I would suspect our military has adapted to this. Lots of lessons were learned after the USS Cole.
—”If this is true, wouldn’t that work against us?”
Russia has purchased about 2,000 Shahed drones from Iran and has built a factory inside Russia to build them locally.
Considerably larger and more easily detected, apparently.
Yes it would. Here is an undetected Iranian drone flying above a US carrier in the Persian Gulf. They didn’t know about it until the Iranians published the photos.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/iran-claims-it-flew-drone-over-us-aircraft-carrier-snapped-photos
—”I have seen a bunch of articles in the past few days discussing this.
that is not a coincidence”
4/8/2023, 4:30:27 PM by FarCenter
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4144274/posts
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action”.
Gussing deep inside Russia.
No doubt a farm of CIA pilots in Nevada is flying these things.
Yes it would.
How do you know it was undetected?
One might wonder why you cannot easily buy a pi even though the supply chain issues have been resolved.
Nope all the jets and ships are lined up in a row like sitting ducks... Military is stupid..they haven’t learned anything ..o it will be a Drone Harbor
Most of these aren’t “flown”. I expect they have a GPS guidance package with target coordinates entered prior to launch. If satellite recon passes often enough the target coordinates for aircraft on an airfield could easily be updated in time to catch it with a drone, if it sits still for 24 hours or so. Lag time would be many hours, given flight times to a range of 1000km.
They may also have some version of a Starlink receiver. The Naval drones do. Those would be “flown”, probably, though I don’t know how well that would work to perform fine control for an aircraft. The naval drone videos seem laggy.
That would be the case, if a significant sabotage organization could be inserted into the US.
European airfields however tend to have concrete aircraft shelters.
The cardboard structure reduces the cost of a plastic/fiber fuselage and wings, but that’s not a major part of the cost of a drone, if it is mass-produced.
The cost of the guidance system, power pack, battery and warhead are more significant.
There was an article about the Australians producing and sending them to the Ukraine. I think the cost was about $5K per drone.
US didn't have an answer when Yemeni drones came for the Saudi refineries.
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