Ukrainian ground-based kamikaze robot Ratel S has been put into mass production
The Ukrainian Defense Forces will use it as a mobile warhead carrying anti-tank mines or a combat module.
"Thanks to the new technology, an operator can blow up an enemy tank or dugout from a safe place. The vehicle has a maximum speed of 24 km/h and a range of 6 kilometers. The robot can operate for up to 2 hours without recharging," the minister explained.
So Ukie homosexuals playing florez on siege? right.
What does the combat module do?
It combats.
holds two mortar rounds apparently. Maybe you can drive around with gun eventually to harass mobiks
>Maybe you can drive around with gun eventually to harass mobiks
Make that a remote detonated claymore mine or two and you might be on to something
Goliath-bro, we were never gone!
Just hiding as small remote controlled kid's toy to advance our electronics, batteries and motors until it was time to shine again. Maybe we'll get some AI, too. That would make us complete.
Look at him go.
you can tell by the time they started using it, the Germans were out of ideas and started materializing the crack pipe induced projects
it's like it wasn't very useful in the first place
It was very useful. Our guys took the explosives out and dropped them into the harbor and harvested bazillions of fish, then rode around in them like little go karts. They were awesome.
Goliath is cute and valid.
>all those resources wasted on wacky projects
>didn't just upgrade their Panzerwerfer systems to be more accurate and out-range Soviet and American rockets
>waste resources on another useless shit
>rocket artillery
>useless
yes
nigga, how is ukraiine shitting on russia right now??? rocket artillery.
>rocket artillery.
not dumb rockets homosexual
Be careful! You almost took the head off the only guy who is dressed appropriately!
>new man made horrors beyond belief
cute
nihil novi sub solei.
this is just a fancy guided bomb.
Pic related will happen at some point.
>ywn bully a kraut to set up his weapons as a go-kart ride.
Why even live, bros?
>kamikaze robot
how is this any different from suicide bombing?
>how is this any different from suicide bombing?
Are you implying the robot is sentient or what?
The operator doesn't die, does this need to be pointed out for you?
Why waste valuable electronics when a mobik could do the same?
Your average mobik is dumber than most electronic devices.
Now you are thinking like a Russian general.
won't someone think of the rare earth metals !
How'd you get past the captcha?
Post non-metallic hands.
operator not dying, duh
good ol' RC-XD
>3 kill streak to unlock
or was it 5? I forget.
So it's very smol, the forbbiden pot
wonder how large wheels are, even biggest 1/5th scale offroad rc cars have problems with old tall grass
That mine is like 32cm from one side to the other for size reference
Yeah, then it looks like standard 1/5th scale rc wheels with are around 20-25cm. Good enough for even muddy roads but long old grass is no go zone for that thing . Design is bit weird because they could build something bigger with more capable off-road performance. And for 1/5th scale they can buy something like arrma outcast 8s, fill it with explosives or mine laying device and for normal roads it would be more than enough
it's for roads
CUTE
It lays TM-57 CUTE as a BUTTON
This little thing with high pitched zipping flying across the grass then falling into your trench, blowing your comrades into bits. It could also be used for de-mining, and it looks like it has a camera for combat footage. Man made horrors within comprehension.
That will not help, Ukraine is finished
Imagine being a fucking retard that plays the German version of Generals.
I went down to the river to hike the trail the other day, on my way back I saw someone with one of these things. Then I saw the thread on /k/ about how someone had used these for inspecting cargo, finding bombs and contraband and such.
Then I though, surely this could be an IED. Just like the quadcopter or the boat ones they used recently against the Black Sea Fleet. But this is not my unique idea, it seems to be a logical conclusion of aerial drones.
They really should put treads instead of wheels on it tho. Wheels go fast sure, but with the muddy fucked terrain in Ukraine it can't be that effective.
it's to place mines on roads and it needs to be fast
Robocraft-looking ass
it's not using tracks because they need powerful motors and batteries
it's much easier to use wheels
it doesn't need tracks because it's light, if they need one for bad terrain they just need bigger wheels
Not sure what the point of this is, if the purpose is to go under a tank in the road and explode a flying drone can do that just as well
it's to mine roads in russian territory and behind russian convoys so when they retreat.....
Probably just a bit cheaper for bigger payload, with longer idle times. Though considering that flying drones are easier to re-use the cost difference would be neglible at the best.
Also requires less training but eh.
Different components and production cycle than the FPV drones. I imagine there is a limit on how many FPVs can be built per month, based on available parts on the market. This opens a second (yes, yes - less viable) option that does not require any operator training
a mine laying drones has a much shorter range than a car
A fucking cheap-ass drone can't lift an AT mine lmao
I remember that game, one of the first that implemented use of drones in PvP
>Ratel
What's up with the Afrikaans name?
>paтeль
Because it's named after an African animal
https://uk.acelenakliye.com/brazkal-ce
What advantages does a land drone have over a flying one, really?
Just being able to carry a larger payload?
The land drone cannot be reused, can get stuck on the ground, is much slower, and much easier to detect (has to get right below you), and has much worse visibility for the controller.
I don't really see the advantages, you can juse use a kamikaze drone if you wanna deal with tanks, Seems Ukies should do that to me.
It's a cheap way to find reliable use to the soviet-era mine surplus
A couple reasons. One, substantial larger payload. The biggest airborne suicide drones have an RPG7 warhead or some equivalent, somewhere between 3 and 4lbs of explosive at most. Even small antitank mines are carrying at least 12 to 15lbs and the bigger ones can pack up to 30. That's the difference between clearing the Vatniks riding it and probably cracking a hole in the engine deck to flipping the whole damned vehicle.
Second, a combo of survivability and visibility. A suicide copter drone can be spotted and potentially be shot down, or otherwise have some sort of small failure that results in it falling before it reaches a target. A ground drone is both by-in-large accident proof and not going to be spotted until it's leap out of the bushes as the 60 year old Soviet shitbox with 0 visibility trundles by.
payload, true
but survivability and visibility is not really at risk of being shot down
the actual advantage is loiter time
the suicide quadcopters have like 10-20 minutes of total flight time so you have to be pretty confident that you can hit whatever target within a small window
but a ground based drone can hang out nearly indefinitely so long as you have some sort of heartbeat wakeup system that only checks the radio when necessary
>What advantages does a land drone have over a flying one, really?
It falls into ditches, stucks in the grass, losses signal all the time because of the radio horizon and can be killed with AK and pretty much everything.
What if we used aerial drones as relays to control land drones more effectively, like a tiny satellite? Because not everyone can afford satellites.
How stupid is this?
ukies are already doing it since like last year, relaying transmission for even like 5 drones, they can see with 1 mavic even 30km behind the lines
Yeah, okay. it seemed like too obvious of an idea not to do it, so I was wondering if it was already being implemented.
bruh, drones been can relay signals to the next drone while being TV controlled.
yooo its the rc-xd from black ops 1
Suicide ground drone footage when?
Kochi wo miro
https://funker530.com/video/wall-e-but-its-directed-by-oliver-stone-and-set-in-ukraine/