Thursday, February 25, 2016

Israel Has Made A Quadcopter Killer Drone



Defense Update: IAI’s ROTEM – Tactical Multirotor Killer Drone

From a distance of few hundreds of meters ROTEM is practically inaudible and can loiter silently for the entire mission.

IAI recently released details on a new member of its mysterious family of multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the new version dubbed ROTEM L (abbreviation of its Hebrew designation: ‘hovering reconnaissance and attack platform – Light’). Designed as a small, quad-rotor based loitering weapon, ROTEM is uniquely built for operation in urban warfare, offering combatants effective, indirect observation and engagement of targets from an elevated position. IAI is displaying a number of loitering weapons at the Singapore Airshow this week, as well as the HoverMast hovering surveillance system.

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WNU Editor: Perfect for urban warfare.

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