The Fire Shadow Loiters For Hours Before Attacking Its Target -- Gizmodo
The Fire Shadow is an unmanned flying machine that can loiter unnoticed, hovering over an area for six hours, waiting to receive a kill order on any designated moving or static target — and then fall on it like a suicidal bird of prey to destroy it.
This video shows exactly that, hitting a car full of imagined terrorist in real life footage.
According to missile systems manufacturer MBDA, this bird of death is a high precision, low cost flying missile that can be launched by a soldier from the ground, just like any other small unmanned air vehicle. After the launch, the Fire Shadow can hover over a large area for up to six hours or 100km. Once the operator points out a target, the Fire Shadow will fall on it destroying it on contact.
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Update: British Army's Fire Shadow Missile Can Stay Aloft For Six Hours Before Hitting Moving Target -- Huffington Post
My Comment: Impressive
2 comments:
hmm, damage wise it's quite low, not very extensive. There is more impact damage and hardly any explosive damage, not sure how these would perform on a hardened target. It certainly would not have a 100% kill ratio.
I suppose that's the reason for its low-cost...
D.Plowman, It's a promo vid, so I doubt that this is the warhead which is in service.
Dr. Steve Brule
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