Similar dispensers could allow an individual aircraft to carry hundreds and maybe even thousands of the weapons at once.
The U.S. Army is considering the Hatchet miniature munition, a tiny precision glide bomb, as a possible future armament option for its MQ-1C Gray Eagle drones together with dispenser pods that could let a single one of the unmanned aircraft carry dozens of them at a time. At the same time, the manufacturer, Northrop Grumman, is proposing larger systems that would enable MQ-9 Reapers in service with the U.S. Air Force to carry hundreds of the weapons on a single mission.
Orbital ATK first unveiled Hatchet, which weighs approximately eight pounds and has a three-pound warhead, in 2012. Northrop Grumman finished its acquisition of the Virginia-headquartered defense and space systems firm, in June 2018, subsequently renaming it as their Innovation Systems division.
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WNU Editor: More drone firepower appears to be the goal, and this is one method to accomplish it.
4 comments:
You also gotta bring the costs of droning down. I want to spend as little as possible for each greeting we send terrorists from the sky hehe
>three pound warhead.
yeah, that won't be doing any heavy punching.
A bullet is like what 10 cents? It'll do a nice hole in a human head for sure. And with enough kinetic energy you could stop a car or truck. .just imagine a few of those coming at you A10 style
That's the thing.
If a person is going to miniaturize smart bomb-lets like that, it would almost be worth it just to put a sniper rifle of some sort on these things.
Then you would have precision, without the mortar like blast field.
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