I can’t pretend to be an expert on these things, but this is also a drone and it does not need to carry the weight of a large battery or an explosive payload. Surely it should be expected to at least match the performance of the incoming drone?
It’s much harder to hit something going 160 km/h than to hit something static with a munition going 160 km/h.
And a thermobaric munition is like the miniaturised version of the MOAB that the US was busting bunkers with in Afghanistan.
Point is, even if it hits the drone 100 m away, I don’t think that would be safe for the target. The primary defense is still jamming, but that is ineffective against wire-guided stuff.
It’s not useless, but I don’t think Putin is safe either. It could also be a cope cage like thing, where the point is just the appearance of safety to calm Putin’s nerves and to discourage attackers.
It works by physically ramming the incoming drone, so it probably can knock things off course
FPV drones can go over 160 km/h, and can carry thermobaric warheads.
I can’t pretend to be an expert on these things, but this is also a drone and it does not need to carry the weight of a large battery or an explosive payload. Surely it should be expected to at least match the performance of the incoming drone?
It’s much harder to hit something going 160 km/h than to hit something static with a munition going 160 km/h.
And a thermobaric munition is like the miniaturised version of the MOAB that the US was busting bunkers with in Afghanistan.
Point is, even if it hits the drone 100 m away, I don’t think that would be safe for the target. The primary defense is still jamming, but that is ineffective against wire-guided stuff.
It’s not useless, but I don’t think Putin is safe either. It could also be a cope cage like thing, where the point is just the appearance of safety to calm Putin’s nerves and to discourage attackers.
A 2kg thermobaric warhead for RShG-1/RPG-27 has a 10m lethal radius. For 100m you would need something far bigger.
Thanks for pointing it out though, I couldn’t find data on that warhead, I guess my guess was off by an order of magnitude.