The warheads are claimed to be roughly 6x cheaper than PG-7 warheads while being able to penetrate 400mm of RHA and provide a dual-purpose effect (frag and HEAT)
Russian FPV drone armed with S-8 aviation rocket warhead
The warheads are claimed to be roughly 6x cheaper than PG-7 warheads while being able to penetrate 400mm of RHA and provide a dual-purpose effect (frag and HEAT)
>6x cheaper
That data (if isn't bs) gives a reference for the wartime cost of making new ammo vs old ammo/less demanded munitions in Russia. Aka they can't make enough so even a S-8 warhead is cheaper...
tbf, it's probably potentially cheaper simply because it's not being used in a ballistic system. The casing doesn't need to meet the same spec, and these could use factory rejected shells. That's probably where they're getting the figure from.
Of course this is true for everyone.
well firstly you know it's bullshit, but even so, it probably IS true that surplus S-8 rounds from frick knows when is cheaper than new-build PG-7s
>the dick is 5 times larger than the body
Me if I would be a drone.
The best part is this zigger calling it the cutting edge tech from their applied physics institution. When it's clearly the exact same ali drone used by hohols that has its schematics readily available on the web. And you can bet your ass Russian government paid millions of dollars to "develop" this.
imagine being the owner of the Chinese factory and half your production goes to Ukraine, the other to Russia
Chinese are becoming scifi arms companies, they even have the shoddy qc down.
They did the same with their Tanks during the Iraq/Iran wars.
I watched a documentary on it, with an interview of one of the old managers basically saying the Iraqis and Iranians were basically in the same building negotiating Deals at the same time.
At least the Ukrainians are making the drones themself. germany has been delivering all kinds of 3D printers since this started even for chips
Can it play meme songs before impact like the latest Ukrainian drones?
Question though. I get that most Ukie FPVs are stopped by EW — but does the same apply to Russian FPVs? Do Ukies run as extensive EW as Russia?
>Question though. I get that most Ukie FPVs are stopped by EW
This is a vatnik copes. Ukraine has ziggers on the run with fpv drones. They are winning with them in the long run.
both things could be true.
40% or even 10% of FPV drones getting through would still be enough to do enormous damage.
They lose 10,000 a MONTH (estimated), but that was a year ago maybe they’re more resistant today?
>be me an alga
>chillin with my algae bros
>soaking up rays enjoying life
>die
>AllThingsMustEnd.rock
>spend an eternity being compressed
>hot af
>transform into oil
>get drilled and sucked up
>pause
>transported and refined
>transported again and molded into plastic propeller
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>carry a bomb into a Russian soldier
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if they're losing that many drones, I wouldn't be surprised if they start using wire-guided drones to counter EW.
the moronniks have tried that apparently. I have questions about its efficacy though.
towing a fiber line with a rocket motor is one thing. towing it with little drone batteries and motors is another thing entirely.
I remember that 256bit shit, it was utter nonsense, they just got the codes for a week.
>10,000 a month
That's what? 7 million bucks worth in ali drones? That's nothing even on the low-gib mode.
Also makes me wonder how many drones don't get intercepted, since most of those have to be single reconnaissance drones which are followed by the explody boys when the coast is clear.
With unarmed drones you still do recon, can do defensive recon near friendly positions to warn of enemy attacks and call in and correct artillery fire.
And we've seen lots of suicide drones that are single use.
Every "suicide drone" used is a "suicide drone" lost...
Hello, esl brownie. Drones are responsible for a small minority of kills, but are overrepresented in killcams because each drone has a camera on it. (Artillery shells and bullets don’t)
>This is a vatnik copes.
ukies said they are losing 10k drones per month to EW coping homosexual
>Do Ukies run as extensive EW as Russia?
They use enough EW that russia also needs adapting their drones
ie using SAW filters to avoid "deafening" the receiver and using alternative bands
Yes. The difference is in the supply methods. Ukrainian logistics is a continually updated small stream of drones, while Russian resupply comes in big batches. So sometimes one or the other style has the advantage relative to the current EW.
>Ukie FPVs are stopped by EW
EW is range limited. Russia cannot protect the entire front and static EW jammers are vulnerable to anti-radiation missiles.
Yes the drones can be jammed, and they often are. But jamming is less effective and has less range and coverage to prevent jammable drones from being effective.
I wonder what it would take to implement a home-on-jam feature.
Two antennas spaced wide enough to get a good parallax and some signal processing?
>exposed electronics
what happens if it rains?
pretty cool, they are surely more useful used that way than lobbing it at random to the sky hoping it hit something
it might be quite easy to slip in quadcopter to disrupt a oil distillery operation
>start using a lot of 5.8 GHz drones
>dir finder antennas for 5.8 are tiny
>enemy start jamming the 5.8 band
>profit
so no frequency hopping signals yet?
Hobbyist gear already does a lot of signal witchcraft like that, but it's mostly for the video feed. Control link is incredibly resilient and redundant, as long as a few bits gets through occasionally the onboard flight controller will be okay by itself
Honestly makes me wonder why they dont try to push 3 fps black and white heavily compressed frames over LoRa of potential targets that a very small neural network could pick out (yes you can run a butchered yolo net on a micro controller, but badly). LoRa has fricking stupid link ranges on watts of power, I'm talking about 10 miles on an open field with 2 watts tier.
The battery probably starts to limit the range first rather than the signal it self so it makes no sense to loose all of the advantages of partially jammable analog video feed
Most of the major battles we've seen have been fought between drone spotted 120mm mortar batteries and armored vehicle columns at a range of five miles or less.
>The warheads are claimed to be roughly 6x cheaper than PG-7 warheads
smells like bullshit, there's nothing special in PG-7 warheads that would make it cost 6 times over this, unless they count cost of motor too, which would be moronic
You forgot about Russian corruption, Anon.
corruption is global modifier
i don't believe the cost bit unless you consider the raw material free because its old.
>Once under full production, the original Panzerfaust 3 cost $9,994, but the IT-600 version costs $11,108 apiece because of its computerized sight. A standard antitank round costs $297, but there is also a Bunkerfaust (“bunker fist”) round for use against static enemy positions. That costs $202.
i assume the germany PZF3 is far more expensive than the old russian PG-7 warhead.
and 300€/6 is 50€ that seems very cheap
I still can't believe those tiny drones can lift something that heavy for very far or for very long at all.
What's the range on something like that anyway?