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Popular Mechanics: Israel Is Already Selling Kamikaze Micro-Drones That Will Change Modern Warfare
The Hero-30 weighs less than 7 pounds, but can carry a one-pound warhead.
The tiny drone launches from its pneumatic carrying tube, extends its wings, and zooms at speed up to 115 mph, driven by an electric propeller. But the 7-lb. Hero 30 can also cruise at slow speeds, loitering over an area. A stabilized camera and a thermal imager in the nose beams back video to the operator. Hero can fly for 30 minutes, long enough for the operator to locate, identify, and confirm a target several miles away. He then sends the Hero on a kamizake run with a one-pound explosive warhead.
Made by uVision, the Hero-30 drone is a new Israeli weapon may prove to be a disruptive force in military technology, heralding a new type of warfare in which shooting at a target you can see is as rare as using a bayonet. It's the killer UAV you'll never see coming.
WNU Editor: The US has been trying to develop a similar weapon for a long time, but it looks like this Israeli model is in production and ready to use. I have always predicted that the future of warfare will be the development of these mini-drones as weapons systems that will target and eliminate a combatant from miles away .... whether in an urban or non-urban environment. And while bullets will remain the cheaper alternative .... in special cases I can see this weapon being used extensively and that each platoon will be carrying a few of these "mini'drones" on their backs. For more information, uVision's website is here.
2 comments:
The surveillance component of these systems is overlooked in the article. It is nice to have a "pocket" drone. There may be times where there are no assets available to support troops on the ground and a kamikazee drone can go up near instantly, take a look around, maybe see where enemies are, kill them, chase them, or suicide itself into the dirt if things calm down.
Extremely useful in a counterinsurgency situation.
There were problems but I'm surprised the tech isn't in every infantry platoon by now.
I had it in cod last year lol
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