Posted on 12/06/2021 9:19:43 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah — The killer drone whooshed out of its launch tube, spreading its carbon wings and shooting into the sky.
Flying too fast for the naked eye to track, the battery-powered robot circled the Utah desert, hunting for the target it had been programmed to strike. Moments later, it sailed through the driver’s side window of an empty pickup truck and exploded in a fireball.
“Good hit,” exclaimed an operator from AeroVironment, the company that produces the drone and sells it to the U.S. military.
NBC News traveled to a military testing center for exclusive access to the first public demonstration of the Switchblade 300, a small, low-cost “kamikaze” drone made by AeroVironment, which sources said the U.S. military has used quietly for years in targeted killing operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.
The demonstration told a story of promise and peril.
Americans have become accustomed to images of Hellfire missiles raining down from Predator and Reaper drones to hit terrorist targets in Pakistan or Yemen. But that was yesterday’s drone war.
A revolution in unmanned aerial vehicles is unfolding, and the U.S. has lost its monopoly on the technology.
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pretty lame technology, we were doing swarming armed drones 25 years ago
I doubt a drone can travel faster than a laser.
It could be problematic between low tech nations.
machine gunner dies 1st
So then the movie “Angel Down” where the drones attacked and killed off the entire President’s guard team wasn’t so out of the realm of possibility...
Tube launched remote-controllable fast drones with charges.
The Azerbaijanis deployed an Israeli made drone system decimated Armenian armor, inflicted heavy casualties and defeated the Armenians in a short but very decisive war. Drones have made land targets, moving or stationary very vulnerable. They are so stealthy, lethal and the targeting so accurate that one technologically competent soldier in a bunker, given enough drones can destroy a division of armor or a fleet of surface combatants. If Taiwan wants to defend itself, it should count on drones and forget Biden.
machine gunner using tracers... Oh, I got a line on you..
Taiwan can’t keep its ports open with drones. The Chinese attack isn’t going to be an attack, but a blockade.
That’s Funny.
Tracers point both ways for sure.
“The Azerbaijanis deployed an Israeli made drone system decimated Armenian armor, inflicted heavy casualties and defeated the Armenians in a short but very decisive war.”
So much Irony it hurts.
The opening ceremonies for the Korean Olympics years ago, was a real eye opener for what was possible at the time... but the millions watching thought it was just entertainment.
The mini cruise missiles rely a lot on GNSS.
Bkmk
And pilots. https://thedroneracingleague.com/about-drl/
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