New Grenade Launcher-Deployed Drones
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Weird how I had a dream of some shit like this
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That’s really cool. Sorta interesting how it looks like they’re using a PCB as the structural mount for the motors.
looks like the switchblade mortar system from about 10 years ago.
A couple hundred will get procured for spoopy types, used, then never ordered again.
Looks like a great way to utterly thrash the pcb
Except there have been tens of thousands of Switchblades delivered to the military
Wells considering it seems to be of limited reusability, I doubt there’s too much of a concern.
But does it perform as advertised?
Generally speaking, grenades aren't expected to be reusable or recoverable.
If the PCB only has to survive for 1 short flight it's probably not an issue. Given that these are light weight payloads and weak motors, that potential flaw is a purely academic issue.
Looks like a flying dildo.
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why can't it use cluster bombs of FAE munitions?
>Payloads include camera, anti-armor, fuel-air, HE/frag, diversionary, smoke, counter-UAS,
It can be fitted with an FAE. Probably too small for cluster munitions to be big enough to be worth it.
Probably a multi-layer PCB with a structural carbon fiber layer in the middle.
Now we just need Manhacks.
Now all we need is a grenade launched drone that launches grenades.
yup, this is gonna make tanks obsolete.
and when the tanks and big aeroplanes are obsolete, where is the incentive to form large complex governments?
When the comfy governments go, so will food availability and rule of law
you or I will be able to buy air superiority for $46 and $7 shipping.
dark age incoming.
You're retarded
was the problem with drones that they couldn't be shot out grenades before?
you're in denial.
make a single argument that discredits the smallest part of what I wrote
That you'll actually be able to buy this shit as a civvie.
It's stupid and dumb and so are you.
just like wish.com can't sell suppressors, right.
the internet is going to accelerate
ad hominem, nice pseudo-argument.
you get to feel something, without thinking anything
A grenade drone will either be too small to hurt a tank or too large to be invulnerable to countermeasures.
that's a much better effort, but picture this
> patrol in tank
> fully buttoned up, cause got to
> make it back to base
> open hatch, step out
> bang
the smolbird stuck to the hull and rode home with you
>when the tanks and big aeroplanes are obsolete, where is the incentive to form large complex governments
What?
If the tank gets back to base the soldiers have a higher chance of getting better treatment.
But user! We already have the Aerovironment Switchblade with a 40mm in it! Plus, the switchblade only costs $100,000 per unit!
>make it back to base
Which is where the c-ram is most likely to be deployed, is it not?
Most smaller drones are PCB based, however the PCB's can be made using steel or aluminium plates rather than epoxy.
Shit's fucking strong, and it works great.
Super easy to mass produce too.
Disregard, missed where you said stuck. At that point, vehicles are getting sweeps by EOD bots anyway.
How many switchblades were ordered?
I'd bet this would cost between $1,000 to $3,000 per piece, and could be made for less than $500.
The switchblade, on the other hand, cost $100,000 per unit, up to 100x more expensive than this.
100 of these vs one switchblade.
Have one guy just load and launch them, with five guys with visors guiding them. After your unit hits target, your visor switches instantly to one already in flight.
Single use, and metal PCB's can hold up for multiple flights just fine.
When folded in and fired the PCB's would be under minimal stress anyway.
This is a really good solid argument, we could learn a thing or two from this.
Fuck, I wanna order 100 of these, have them all pre-loaded in mortars, and dot them around my farm.
Best defence system ever.
Let's see a fox try and fuck with my chickens now!
Holy shit, this thing literally beats out the Switchblade in terms of specs
How far we've come...
Now I know who I'm gonna work for next.
>Literally the same guys who did MetalStorm
This shit is so fucking brilliant I can't believe it.
looks like it would break when you fire it desu
They actually were bought out by Defendtex, who now own most of the old Metalstorm patents
Based nufudd poster
I know the metalstorm patent's been fucked around a thousand times over by now, but from what limited info I've gotten so far, most of the original metalstorm team are now at Defendtex
Lick my nuts you statist shit.
Also, a 40mm payload can't destroy a tank, and governments existed before tanks and airplanes did you brain-dead yuropoor.
>I'd bet this would cost between $1,000 to $3,000 per piece
is this a joke? they're going to be like 5 times that
p-please tell me that's satire
holy shit....human kind is going even faster to hell that i could've imagined
phew....j-just satire
It's fiction, but very much within the realm of possibility. We're heading into a weird future.
At this point those probably wouldn't be impossible.
Only expensive.
are you retarded? chinks clone everything and turn it out in every corner of the globe for profit w/o a single thought as to the repercussions from the end user
Question what is the defense against, hypothetically, a drone with c4 crashing into your tank or squad. And how would the drone pilot mitigate that defense? Just curious.
That's not satire. That's one potential future.
There's no way this is selling for fifteen, wait, no, of course it'll sell for fifteen fucking grand a piece, who am I kidding?
>drone pilot
By the time these things hit market they'll be totally automated.
You fire it in the direction of Hajis, you give it a geofence on a map, and it finds hajis or tanks in that area and fucks them up.
37mm one when?
Aside from some targetet assassinations I don't really see the point.
That is not even future. That is NOW. However, the scale which is shown in the film is not feasible. In 10 years. Definitely it is. Though, there will be anti-drones trained to take down other drones.
You're a fucking idiot
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put a thermite torch on one of these and a way to stick it to something and you have the ultimate in anti material / sabotage.
Ahh, so many allahu akhbars were had that day.
>commies
>implying commies won’t target right-wingers
Everyone btfo user
Whats the fucking point of that thing aside from
>Grenade launcher, lol
Wheres the advantage over pic related?
>t. Brainlet
This is the chuckle I needed today
cringe
>covers windows and doors with netting
>slaughterbots thwarted
So something that could be done much cheaper with a biochemical weapon?
>he didn't watch the part with breaching bots
Every transport doubles as a flex linear charge.
>
Chemical weapons kill hostages/civilians/unknowns and force friendlies to dress up in CBRN suits. Bots don't.
absolutely based
> cost $100,000 per unit
Citation or bullshit. The figures I saw were 5k unit price.
Am I the only one kind of surprised drones aren't used more in terrorist plots? Seems like if they could rig up a cellphone triggered bomb to a suicide bomber, they could easily do the same to a $200 FPV drone. And you wouldn't have to groom children to carry out your attacks. Then again, terrorists rarely go after individuals.
Where's the advantage over just using a mortar shell in the first place?
Why even drones? Just get an RC plane/helicopter. They've been around for decades.
Literally WTF is the point of this besides saving 5 seconds of takeoff time?
Is it just so you can direct-fire it in a pinch?
Something tells me you've never had to hump the baseplate.
And you know, finding targets on the fly with no observer.
just wear a helmet lmao
I can only imagine conservatives nutting their pants at this.
>this makes armor obsolete
Lol, isn't APS designed to hit targets at >300 m/s? How is it going to have trouble with something that moves at 20?
Gettin that sweet sweet government money.
>same propellers it uses to fly are the cutting blades
I see a problem
Cool
Payloads, a drone can't carry alot of boom boom, at that point your just as well of running into a crowd with two grenades yelling snackbar
Less then half the cost twice of the shock value
holyshit, imagine what these sandpeople could've made if they had multi million dollars funding
It's cool.
It's more accurate than anything you could do with an M203. Rather than being forced to try and arc a shell at 100+ yards while exposing yourself to fire, you can just throw this little bitch into the air and fly it directly above the enemy. This would also serve as a recon drone so you could see where the rest of them are.
Will simply lead to RWS with milimeter wave radar link for drone defence
Or use a net to capture it.
>200,000 dune coons take a dirt nap
How is this a 'horror' short?
Besides, did no one think to wear a really big hat? Slaughterbots defeated.
>if they had multi million dollars funding
You mean like they did from 6 different intelligence agencies from 3 different countries for 40 years?
>Looks like a great way to utterly thrash the pcb
Looks like a big pile of fake. Those rotors, that mass, those hex heads
The point is why even grenade launch them in the first place? That just makes them have to fold and fit in a grenade shell and survive the launching shock and probably a ton of other shit that you wouldn't need to worry about if you just put the thing on the ground and took off like a normal person, or even just tossed it by hand.
Oh, shit, you're right. That is dumb.
My guess is that the drone gains altitude very slowly with the limited flight surfaces and relatively heavy payload. It's possible you're supposed to launch it 100 or so feet into the air to give it a head start so it just has to maintain its altitude and can focus all it's power on moving laterally. I'm just curious on why "camera" is separate from all other payloads when I don't see any other way to aim it.
They were very wonky on the game.
The whole point of the system is loiter time with a payload. Take off is the most energy intensive part of flying. Doing it this way means you can use chemical propellants (which are energy dense) for a section of the work meaning longer loiter time/larger payload/lighter drone and its cheaper. It also further increases loiter time as you can effectively using staging. This way it doesn't have to carry the expended batteries it used to get up there.
Guns are going to be practically useless very soon
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