Ukraine has developed an armor-piercing ammunition for FPV drones.
The warhead of the new EFP-S munition has a "shock core", a powerful armor-piercing effect and a long range of remote destruction.
The weight of the element that strikes the target is 165 g; the speed of the element that strikes the target is 1800 m/s; the effective damage radius is 8 meters.
>say something about this little new guy
Looks like a nice stripped down EFP. Surprised it wasn't done earlier.
Does it make more sense to have the munition face horizontally than downwards? I'd imagine it's easier to fly above a target and fire through the top "armor" than try to get through the sides. Especially against tanks when the ammo is so exposed on the turret ring.
If it's a EFP it's probably intended for killing BTRs/BMPs not tanks, in which case horizontal flight is what the FPV pilots are more used to.
Maybe it's a counter to jammers since existing Russian on-vehicle jammers have been extremely shortranged (like <10m).
>If it's a EFP it's probably intended for killing BTRs/BMPs not tanks
EFPs have been killing tanks for decades. so wtf are you going on about
Finnish version weights 3.6kg and penetrated 30mm of steel from 30 meters. That ukie one is 1kg but it explodes very close and from the top. It should penetrate enough to toast anything.
but way harder to pilot a First-person view drone that's looking downwards. this is designed to you look where you're piloting, fly forwards, and go boom. makes more sense from a UI perspective.
Have 2 cameras, one facing forward and one facing downward.
Should have 2 types, a facing downward model would be best for anti-vehicles
have one camera and warhead that can swivel either 90° downward or forward.
That would be a frickin great design
>Surprised it wasn't done earlier.
You will see a lot more of this stuff soon, as the stated goal of the US is to shift the Ukies off the Wests teat (since its run dry) and onto their own domestic production. A lot of the lessons learned from the jury rigged FPV drone stuff the last few years can be used to make cheap and plentiful munitions like this, which is what ukraine needs.
we had a (very bad) thread on this here:
https://desuarchive.org/k/thread/60605101
documents are here:
https://desuarchive.org/k/thread/60605101/#q60610880
rolling for good thread
I just hope the resident white trash dogfricker doesn’t come in and ruin this thread too
good thread's gotta have talkers, tho, ones who talk good
why? The rpgs they're using now are good enought at blowing up mtbs
The EFP is cheap, it can be made without any complex parts or specialized manufacturing, allowing them to both make more fpv drones, and save the PG warheads (which I assume they arent making any more of atm) for tanks.
>good enought
Very backwards thinking, just because something is good enough doesn't mean you should stop thinking of making stuff better
I googled this type of weapon, and apparently the terrorists in Iraq used the same shit in IEDs.
>I googled this type of weapon
why? you could get v& for doing that.
So what? Ukraine is a war against a genocidal bunch of barbarians. They need to take what they can get, from any tech source.
TZD.
we (ukrodrone gays) have been testing UAV-borne EFPs for a while. someone who watches lots of combat footage will have seen them in action, without the clips being explicitly described as such. compared to drawn-out deaths by a thousand fragments? nobody minds.
doesn't look aerodynamic, will need a cone
EFPs have 80-95% less penetration than HEAT, thata the tradeoff you get for having more range at which the device can trigger.
Eg a 150mm caliber HEAT will penetrate a meter and a half of RHA, while a 150mm EFP will penetrate maybe 200mm of RHA.
I dont want to give them hints though, let them do this shit.
sounds like plenty to punch through a lightly armored vehicle or the roof of a tank
>I don't want to give them hints
I doubt those war hardened, battle experiences Ukrainisms would care about some autistic spergs ramblings anyway, anon kek
>heh, those people who has been using HEAT warhead drones, totally don't know about HEAT warheads
This is not being simply moronic, this is advanced moronation
what's the difference between an EFP warhead and a HEAT warhead?
>what's the difference between an EFP warhead and a HEAT warhead?
EFP: Fires a heavy slug at 1000m/s+ slug will travel like any other projectile
HEAT: Uses explosive lenses to form a long thin copper jet travelling at 5000m/s+ the jet can only stay intact for a few meters before it tears itself apart.
EFP is popular for top attack and roadside mines because the projectile can travel a greater distance, if it does penetrate there's much more mass to do damage.