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Published: 2019-04-04 00:43:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 5112; Favourites: 154; Downloads: 98
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Anti tank guided drone - 80mm diameterdesigned as an inexpensive stealthy alternative to ATGMs.
far left - ATGD launcher canister
middle left - ATGD folded
middle right - ATGD flight mode
far right - ATGD landed
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So itβs a suicide drone that can be launched off an attack chopper or fighter or gun ship or from the ground. Recoverable or able to be used to take out a tank or other target?Β
Cool ideaΒ
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So I'm looking at this and I keep thinking of a missile that uses rotor blades as a means of propulsion to deliver the standard HEAT warhead, but as I'm reading the comments, and it seems to have more in common with Sensor-Fused weapons that fire self-forging penetrators. Is my understanding of this weapon correct?
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Basically, can this drone position itself on a tank and fire its projectile at the target below it?
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it's more of a suicide drone, though i was thinking of a similar concept that acts more as a bomber than a missile.
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Basically, that was what I had suggested earlier that it was what this drone actually did; act as a kind of bomber. But, yes, it's basically that.
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Β i might modify the drone to do something like that...
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That would be great. I'll wait until I see more things done for you with your art. Greetings.
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This this looks like a drone that shoot by cannons.
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it's designed to fit into a square launcher tube, so unfortunately it couldn't be launched out of anything like an MBT. It's also
designed to be launched via a catapult so as to not increase it's noise or heat signature.
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Well it has rotors right? Why not have a dispenser recovery pad on the tank or IFV turret. When the crew wants to deploy it, the dispenser lifts it like an elevator the rotors unfold and spin up and take off.Β
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I started to make a tracked vehicle with that in mind, i wasnt happy with how it looked so it never went anywhere though.
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Would the devices you make work in reality or is it just fiction?
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in theory it should work, it's a mix of technologies that individually work in reality.
the technologies it implements are:
- coaxial rotor
- EFP (explosively formed projectile) warhead
- folding propeller blades
in some sense this kind of thing already exists, there's been reports of ISIS using drones with IEDs for improvised drone strike, this designs isn't substantially different.
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You can land it if you miss? That's cool
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so long as you don't miss and hit the ground
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What cancels the torque of the rotor?
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it's a coaxial design, so 2 propeller blades spin in one direction, the other two in the other direction. it's a relatively common arrangement on helicopters. some drones also have a coaxial arrangement.
coaxial rotors can also control yaw by having one pair of blades spinning faster than the other, introducing torque which is useful control. albeit in this design it would only be useful for roll.
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Like in the Ka 50 and such. Nice! Wouldn't such an electric engine be much more expensive then a simple solid propellant booster?
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either a rocket motor or a propeller driven system would be fairly inexpensive. both would probably cost less than $1000 assuming a rocket wouldn't have thrust vectoring (which would increase its cost by an order of magnitude at least)
usually when it comes to missiles and drones the expensive part is guidance, and at that point i couldn't really give you a price breakdown since i don't know much about that stuff. in general though it's much easier to design electrical components
for something that's going at a relatively calm pace compared to a rocket which has to be guided actively at very high speeds.
my super rough estimate for cost would be ~ $3000-$5000 in USDe
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Thats actually very interesting
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