>have a bunch of dumb 70mm rockets
>slap some computer controlled fins on them and laser receivers
>you now have a laser guided rocket with 6.5km range that can be fired from a humvee and targeted by a drone
neat. it's similar to a budget JDAM. apparently it's very precise.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/04/27/ukrainian-marines-are-shooting-laser-guided-rockets-at-russian-troops-six-miles-away/?sh=5364793974b4
I've been wondering when they would field those. Great thing is they can be used for AA too.
>2035
>guidance kits for .50cal rounds
Yes, I know it exists, but not proliferated enough.
thanks to the proliferation of AI and guidance kits we can finally truly have baby-seeking bullets.
Oh absolutely anon. They've put them on F-16s too, as a very cheap alternative to an AIM-9. Decent range at a few km away, can be targeted with a sniper pod, will kill anything from an Orlan sized drone up to a Cessna 172/Caravan, incredibly insanely cheap. Also has the benefit of being man loadable unlike the AIM-9 (20 lb vs 80-90).
Like it won't nail a Su-27 on the other side of a turn circle or one coming at you from below 9 km away at night, but it'll deal with the cheap shit. An incredible little system tbh.
>They've put them on F-16s too, as a very cheap alternative to an AIM-9.
No. Those are cheap alternative to hellfire on attack helicopters, drones and light attack aircraft.
They’ve been tested on cruise missile surrogates, so he’s kinda right
>David Axe
frick him
Behind the curve.
Kamikaze drones are new meta.
the term is "expendable drones" and don't worry, the US versions are going to blow your mind
>the US versions are going to blow your mind
Do we know of any already in development?
There were many different prototypes. Bard College released a codex of them about 5 years ago but most didn't make it to mass production.
Switchblades are the only infantry-scale kamikaze which made it in the US, although Uvision (israeli company) sells Hero to the Marines, Anduril sells Altius to the Army, and there are a few weird prototypes like TETAC which are still testing.
>the term is "expendable drones"
why not call it a missile at that point duh
'Drone' is the hip thing right now, like hovercraft in the mid-70s. I imagine that, had the tech to do something like this existed in the 70s, we would have seen suicide hovercraft being fielded.
Isn't ukr using surface effect(same as hovercraft) jetski drones to keep the Russian fleet hiding in port
very recently they completed development on undersea torpedo drones as well, which they recently exhibited. They should soon be put into service.
someone explain to a moron, me, how you maintain communications with an underwater drone over distance (iirc 600km for one unit, 2500km for another)
i figure the water would play hell on the signal
if its near surface maybe it can raise an antenna
I started to type up a really long post answering your question, and then I realized that somebody had already done it for me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_with_submarines
>'Drone' is the hip thing right now, like hovercraft in the mid-70s.
The Forever War was published in 1974 and contains the word drone 61 times
>The Forever War
I was just thinking about it and the logical conclusion to an AI arms race being battles decided in a split second and you wake up to learn that two companies are dead from a missile hit and your buddy in the next cryo-bed is missing his legs.
"missile" implies a fairly limited operations and manuever profile
like, no one expects a missile to be able to loiter or abort the way most suicide/expendable/whatever the frick drones can
then again shaheeb is just a flying lawnmower with single point terminal guidance and people call it a drone so what do i know
I think most draw the line at loiter and realtime remote surveillance and target designation capability and/or in some cases even recovery capability if no suitable target is found.
Some missiles and drones blur the lines of course.
Sounds better for the politicians debating on your next budget.
Missiles are basically guided kamikaze drones
Prove me wrong.
Can you control it: YES
Can it stay more or less still in the air: YES
Can it do multiple missions: YES
Does it have its own camera: YES
It's a drone
Can you control it: YES
Can it stay more or less still in the air: NO
Can it do multiple missions: YES
Does it have its own camera: YES
It's a loitering drone
Can you control it: YES
Can it stay more or less still in the air: YES/NO
Can it do multiple missions: NO
Does it have its own camera: YES
It's a suicide drone
Can you control it: YES
Can it stay more or less still in the air: NO
Can it do multiple missions: NO
Does it have it's own camera: NO
Guided projectile or guided missile
Can you control it: YES
Can it stay more or less still in the air: NO
Can it do multiple missions: NO
Does it have its own camera: YES
Loitering munition
Can you control it: NO
Can it stay more or less still in the air: YES
Can it do multiple missions: YES
Does it have its own camera: YES
Spy balloon
This rocket can penetrate bunker walls and light armor before detonating. It's a SAP style warhead.
That might be true but when you have a whole bunch of rockets in the depo waiting to be used it makes sense to make those more effective.
>forbes
Bub, have a webm of the thing actually working
https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1651553974984536067
They're also being used for anti-drone work
Good.
Now they have to do the same things with lots of S-5 and S-8 rockets.
That's essentially what Starstreak was
>hey look missile-inna-box innit
>lets put 3 warheads on for chuffs
>lets put lasers on it and steer it with our face
>its 2008, iphones are well fit lets put those on now too
tally ho, Starstreak
>be vatnig
>see ancient grad roll out
>"xaxaxa stupid holols are running out of gear"
>grad launches guided missiles Macross-style
>tfw