Notizie sulla difesa: i piani dell’Ucraina “Kill Zone” di 15 km lungo il fronte russo mentre la produzione di droni colpisce oltre 4.000 al giorno

Huge W

Great stuff.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the next generation of ground attack drones.

We’ve all made the observation that there are features of this war rhyming with WW1 and WW2. I was expecting by now to see dronified and smaller versions of a Stuka.

There were some prototypes developed that had cannon or rockets mounted downwards or upwards that could be fired at an angle to the direction of the plane. I think a drone, maybe jet powered, could fly over targets and fire unguided rocket grenades onto the top of positions, proximity fuse, or shaped charge against armor. The German rocket mine PARM 1 can be accurate up to 100m, it’s unguided. So I would want a fuselage of unusual shape to accommodate such rocket mines.

Several launch tubes could be included in it, and each could swivel slightly laterally to the left or right so that as the plane flies over, and each can be designated to attack and fire on a target as it moves underneath. You could hit several targets simultaneously if you also have some degrees of movement in the other axis as well, on each tube.

The fusilage would have to be narrow but tall. Like the English Electric lightning in profile. Each rocket grenade would be smaller as its attacking the thinner armor, than on the PARM1 rocket mine. And it should require a smaller and shorter rocket motor.

Aiming downwards should aid velocity and accuracy.

Coordinating the aiming of each tube is going to be a challenge, but I imagine there would be a way to do this. The look down camera with the control system will fire the individual rocket when it calculates a hit will occur.

A technique for controlling the individual rockets could designate objects to track, and based on order of approach, the rear target in a group is first rocket time, the next object to the left of that, is the responsibility of the second tube, the next one in the right might be the third rocket tube. Each will gimbal slightly to aim onto each of the targets.

Each of these targets can be locked onto using object tracking from a greater distance. The plane plots a course over the group of targets, goes silent and uses object tracking for each designated target, each tube swivels to aim onto it’s designated target.

And in this way the volley of each attack has the element of surprise.

Ukraine is standing up to Russia while Agent Orange bends the knee. Respect to these heroes. Russian warship go fuck yourself.

That’s amazing, once you establish the zone, which I’m sure they can or they wouldn’t publicize it, then they can just clear the kilometer closest to the Ukrainian lines, then move the kill zone up a kilometer, clear the closest kilometer to their lines, move the kill zone up a kilometer, repeat until the russians are back in russia.

Should be able to do something similar to that in Crimea, it’d be trickier with civilians in the area, but hardly impossible.

If they can develop their own version of the Taurus, or get few from Germany, that would take care of the russian air force and the russian leadership, in the immortal words of the bot, would be fucked.

I thought something like this would happen [5 months ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/UkrainianConflict/s/CFdKO8ry1s). Imagine when the whole front line can be managed by some guys at screens in an office building and no one has to die anymore (except the Russians if they want).

4000 drones a day is surprising. Maybe I’m ignorant but that’s a lot ? That’s 1.5 million in a year.

extend up to house of the whites