Oh, is this gonna be an entire new category of munition now? Purpose built drone bombs instead of just ad hoc "whatever we have that goes boom"?
I wonder what drone munitions will look like in 2030.
But if it's that much more effective, it would better to manufacture them as drone munitions from the start, instead of individually modifying them, wouldn't it?
If you're getting a bunch of 40mm grenades that were supposed to go into a 203 launcher, you really can't afford the delay of sending them back to the factory.
The mods take nails, tape, fins, and disassembling the grenade fuze to remove the spin-deactivated safety, which takes a pair of pliers.
It's a simple, cheap, easy mod to existing things which are already in large supply.
A open source print file for the fins is about the only thing you'd bother to specifically make.
If you're a nation buying drones with an eye to being more effective than go the full distance and buy something like Switchblade, TETAC or Kargu with smart fuzes and long range.
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Anonymous
That sounds like a lot of work, maybe it'll be cheaper to just modify grenades most of the time, but at scale it would be cheaper to just buy pallets of drone munitions ready to field.
1 week ago
Anonymous
Yeah, at scale you'd buy a kamikaze drone munition since normal drones only last 4-5 missions anyway.
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Anonymous
>A open source print file for the fins is about the only thing you'd bother to specifically make.
Just glue this to the back end of the grenade. It is about as accurate.
Anyone who has enough money to mass produce a standardized munition has enough money to not be strapping them onto commercial drones, so probably not. You might a company offering a complete package that includes an optimized munition, but it'll be paired with a drone launch system as well.
But the thing about that is the extremely high attrition of drones in Ukraine. I could see there being a lot more use cases, and flexibility, for a grenade featuring an airburst fuze that can be programmed with a phone via NFC.
I mean sure sell your datalinked standardized drone grenades to the US, I'm sure they can also produce the drones to deliver them with, but just about anyone else isn't going to be able to do that.
The marginal gains in lethality with something like that vs the increased cost that comes from not using an existing munition that's made by the millions simply is never gonna be worth it. Best you might see is a plastic kit that prefabs things like the nose and fins since those are cheap plastic and can easily be cranked out for pennies.
1 week ago
Anonymous
Well anon, 40mm airburst grenades are already a thing.
1 week ago
Anonymous
Yes, and they work by counting spins, something a drone dropped munition doesn't have, and would require a lasing system to accurately measure the distance from drone to ground. To make drone grenades, you'd have to make completely new chips, integrate the system with the dropping system which is non-trivial, and bring the cost per round down to the point where the marginal lethality increases are worth it. While it's possible, I think that anyone who has the money and time to do this entire process would be unlikely to be using commercial drones.
If a company can find an optimized solution solution for most situations >kill radius this big at this height with this much drift
you might see companies competing to offer different drones that drop the same munition.
Maybe this drone can only carry one, but it is ultra quiet, or that drone is very stable and can drop six etc.
Unless big daddy US procurement requires them, they would probably refuse to license their weapons and only sell munitions to people who've bought the drones as well. Think of how Keymod is a proprietary system that requires licensing despite it literally just being a couple of holes punched in sheet metal with certain dimensions.
>Wow these war synthwave edits from westerners are pretty cool, we should make our own >It is not supposed to look like an epic and based video game? Why not lol?
I love their intros. It's like I'm about to watch a video game cutscene. It's surreal but when I see that logo and hear "release the Kraken" I nut a little. Their Kupyansk video was wild and I hope they continue deleting vodkamorons with extreme prejudice.
This is Call of Duty footage
No It's battlefield 3 footage, with all the spotting dots.
>Can't tell its BF4 HUD
ngmi
It's literally BFBC2
Soo sad to know Pidor died, he was such a legend
>still reposting a year old fake
All it needs is
ENEMY KILLED 100
ENEMY KILLED 100
and I'm gonna lose it. This war is an actual fucking meme.
0:46
They are getting too good at editing this shit lmao
Is there anyway to protect yourself from drone dropping grenades?
run away?
new tech is to put nails on front of the nades so they go bonk a bit higher and the shrapnel hits legs a few cm more up
Oh, is this gonna be an entire new category of munition now? Purpose built drone bombs instead of just ad hoc "whatever we have that goes boom"?
I wonder what drone munitions will look like in 2030.
Judging from the brass nose and aluminum or steel lip it's a 40mm grenade with 3d printed fins.
But if it's that much more effective, it would better to manufacture them as drone munitions from the start, instead of individually modifying them, wouldn't it?
If you're getting a bunch of 40mm grenades that were supposed to go into a 203 launcher, you really can't afford the delay of sending them back to the factory.
>from the start
Those munitions may be 10 years old.
The mods take nails, tape, fins, and disassembling the grenade fuze to remove the spin-deactivated safety, which takes a pair of pliers.
It's a simple, cheap, easy mod to existing things which are already in large supply.
A open source print file for the fins is about the only thing you'd bother to specifically make.
If you're a nation buying drones with an eye to being more effective than go the full distance and buy something like Switchblade, TETAC or Kargu with smart fuzes and long range.
That sounds like a lot of work, maybe it'll be cheaper to just modify grenades most of the time, but at scale it would be cheaper to just buy pallets of drone munitions ready to field.
Yeah, at scale you'd buy a kamikaze drone munition since normal drones only last 4-5 missions anyway.
>A open source print file for the fins is about the only thing you'd bother to specifically make.
Just glue this to the back end of the grenade. It is about as accurate.
Xaxaxa, not so fast, Hohols!
Dart drones. Chemical drones. Sound waves drones. Hologram beaming drones. Skeleton drones.
>Skeleton drones
>dump dead comrades on new conscripts
holy shit i love this fucking war
Advanced Ottoman warfare.
Anyone who has enough money to mass produce a standardized munition has enough money to not be strapping them onto commercial drones, so probably not. You might a company offering a complete package that includes an optimized munition, but it'll be paired with a drone launch system as well.
But the thing about that is the extremely high attrition of drones in Ukraine. I could see there being a lot more use cases, and flexibility, for a grenade featuring an airburst fuze that can be programmed with a phone via NFC.
I mean sure sell your datalinked standardized drone grenades to the US, I'm sure they can also produce the drones to deliver them with, but just about anyone else isn't going to be able to do that.
The marginal gains in lethality with something like that vs the increased cost that comes from not using an existing munition that's made by the millions simply is never gonna be worth it. Best you might see is a plastic kit that prefabs things like the nose and fins since those are cheap plastic and can easily be cranked out for pennies.
Well anon, 40mm airburst grenades are already a thing.
Yes, and they work by counting spins, something a drone dropped munition doesn't have, and would require a lasing system to accurately measure the distance from drone to ground. To make drone grenades, you'd have to make completely new chips, integrate the system with the dropping system which is non-trivial, and bring the cost per round down to the point where the marginal lethality increases are worth it. While it's possible, I think that anyone who has the money and time to do this entire process would be unlikely to be using commercial drones.
Dont need chips. Just need a longer probe.
If a company can find an optimized solution solution for most situations
>kill radius this big at this height with this much drift
you might see companies competing to offer different drones that drop the same munition.
Maybe this drone can only carry one, but it is ultra quiet, or that drone is very stable and can drop six etc.
Unless big daddy US procurement requires them, they would probably refuse to license their weapons and only sell munitions to people who've bought the drones as well. Think of how Keymod is a proprietary system that requires licensing despite it literally just being a couple of holes punched in sheet metal with certain dimensions.
Laser guided drones.
Also warcrimes, why do Russians now have the same color scheme as the Ukkies?
Do they wanna kill Russians that much?
Isn't using lawn darts a war crime?
you mean lazy dogs?
Don't invade a sovereign nation.
>Kraken <UAV> Pidor +50
easily, best part of the video.
The addition of the battlefield UI is so fucking kino holy shit
The minimap even moves&updates
Kudos to their social media guy who edited this
>ukr drone video
>Smack my Vatnik Up starts playing
You can never be too brutal with russians. It's impossible.
>patreon link at the end
The future is now, old man.
>Helping to cull russian animal population to more managable numbers with a reasonable donation, all while within the comfort of your own four walls
>BF3 UI
should've been BF2 tbh
it's BC2
the killfeed font is pretty telling
BFBC2 C4 drone warfare
This feels right. Like it was meant to be.
Battlefield Bad Company 2
sit down
I need a an edited version of the atomic heart death screen animation to include a quad copter dropping a grenade on Soviet boy
>Wow these war synthwave edits from westerners are pretty cool, we should make our own
>It is not supposed to look like an epic and based video game? Why not lol?
>It's a PrepHoleraken PrepHoleino episode
Thank you, sweet baby jesus
Muscovy delenda est
Damn, it really just kept getting worse for awhile there.
Peaked with the lone dude in the bush reverse birthing one.
>the music
>the edits
:DDD
I love their intros. It's like I'm about to watch a video game cutscene. It's surreal but when I see that logo and hear "release the Kraken" I nut a little. Their Kupyansk video was wild and I hope they continue deleting vodkamorons with extreme prejudice.
Moderate btw.
>Kraken <UAV> Pidor +50
I made dis.
Nice, BFBC2