UK changes Reapers to Defenders

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The British Ministry of Defense announced preparations for the adoption of new shock drones Protector (English - "protector"), reports "Warspot"

UK changes Reapers to Defenders




Under the name Protector, the British Army will receive Drones Certifiable Predator B RPA (an improved version of Predator B, aka MQ-9 Reaper), developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems. Initially, it is planned to adopt 16 drones, which will replace the existing 10 MQ-9 Reaper units (English - "reaper"). At the same time, the UK Ministry of Defense is considering the possibility of increasing the order to twenty Defenders.

The Protector model differs from the basic version of the MQ-9 Reaper with its strengthened design, elongated wing, and also increased protection against external damage (collision with birds, lightning strikes). In addition, the new drones have increased flight time (from 27 to 40 hours) and are equipped with nine points for the suspension of weapons (MBDA Brimstone 2 missiles and Raytheon Paveway IV bombs).
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  1. +8
    14 March 2018 15: 13
    h - envy. I also want a UAV for 40 flights with suspension points.

    Hang these over the eastern hut - and sit bullet with PU
    1. +8
      14 March 2018 15: 17
      Admittedly, they are ahead in this area. It is necessary to accelerate their development in this segment of UAVs ...
      1. +8
        14 March 2018 15: 26
        They change it, and they pay. Not enough for their ambitions.
      2. +1
        14 March 2018 19: 13
        it is necessary to develop means of anticipating them, so that
        they didn’t roam around the Lonbass and took pictures of their positions, but suddenly somersaulted or turned to meet surgeons with cheerful faces ... Iranians with RQ-170 did something similar
    2. +8
      14 March 2018 15: 28
      Quote: c-Petrov
      h - envy. I also want to ....
      .... sit bullet with PU

      And do not be jealous, Petrov! We have a hundred times cooler to eat! Hyperboloid of the "engineer" Putin! Sit and bullet until blue. And if, on the horizon, a formidable Predator suddenly appears, you cut it off in one motion!
      1. +7
        14 March 2018 15: 41
        Quote: Stas157
        And do not be jealous, Petrov!

        Nothing .. How did you kick Petrova .. belay
        And you don’t fuck up with a motor against a hyperboloid.
        Do you live in Russia as a citizen?
        1. +5
          14 March 2018 15: 53
          Quote: Kotovsky

          Do you live in Russia as a citizen?

          Exactly. Citizen boss!
          1. +5
            14 March 2018 15: 55
            Quote: Stas157
            Exactly.

            Sorry for you. Tormented poor fellow.
            1. +5
              14 March 2018 16: 04
              Quote: Kotovsky

              Sorry for you. Tormented poor fellow.

              I am very pleased that you are capable of such feelings! But in this case, you missed. Sorry, I can not live up to your expectations! Find yourself an object for another's pity.
        2. +12
          14 March 2018 16: 19
          Kotovsky You are right, envy in favor of having a high-quality drone in your country is fundamentally different from envy for those who have a cottage, an expensive car, etc. etc .. This is healthy envy.
      2. +11
        14 March 2018 16: 17
        And if, on the horizon, a formidable Predator suddenly appears, you cut it off in one motion!


        there was a cannon with arrows on my buttonhole, if that tells you anything. So I know the algorithm of my movements to eliminate the target. They taught me to interfere with flying while you went to courses on the Internet struggle with the Kremlin.

        Well, for the rest - your dull couch struggle with the letters of the text and the irony about our military-industrial complex speak only of your miserable worldview and the distance from the army as such

        Get a handkerchief. Putin’s election is coming. 6 more years of your worthless life will be under the flag of whining

        Nothing .. How did you kick Petrova ..


        Stop - his tool is to type letters on the keyboard and call for confusion. The prisoner from him is probably the same as the fighter with power - i.e. no

        If this character were smart - maybe it would have turned out something - and so he only causes a smile with his dull struggle.

        In general, this is a typical representative of the Russian opposition.
        1. +10
          14 March 2018 16: 23
          For the GDP! Our cause is right! drinks hi
        2. +5
          14 March 2018 17: 15
          Quote: s-t Petrov
          They taught me to interfere with flying while you went to courses on the Internet struggle with the Kremlin.

          Quote: s-t Petrov
          your sad couch struggle ... they only talk about your miserable worldview and distantness ...
          Get a handkerchief. .... ... Another 6 years of your worthless life will be under the flag of whining

          Oh! Petrov was offended!))) It was worth a joke to write how it poured! Let's brand the opposition. I remembered everything!
          What are you confused simplistic creatures! He came up with an image for himself, without knowing anything about me, angrily branded this image, and became well done!
          Petrov why are you spreading your fabrications about me? What are the online courses to combat the Kremlin? What is the opposition? I’m sitting on someone’s salary, then I’m going for some sort of Maltsev, whom I didn’t even hear ... Stop giving out wishful thinking! Someone who, but a professional fighter with the opposition (Olgins), is more like you, judging by how well you understand this opposition!
          1. +4
            14 March 2018 17: 26
            Oh! Petrov was offended! It took me a joke to write how it poured!


            do you really consider yourself capable of offending me or writing a joke? And what can you joke about? There is no money about, but are you holding on? Or about Siberian Cranes, Craps and Rogozin?

            This is the bottom. This is not a joke.

            judging by how well you understand this opposition!


            it is very easy. For me, you are all smeared with one substance. Among you (the opposition) there are 2 people of those whom I consider people to be - the rest ... And not a friend and not an enemy, but ..

            You are not one of these two.

            I’m sitting on someone’s salary


            do not try to make me laugh. for such clumsy work and a nickel broken will not give.

            Oppositionist.

            PS And you don’t need to tell stories about Maltsev that you don’t know who it is. This is the idol of the offended by the Kremlin. The revolutionary, whom he pressed, he began to clutch at the heart, and having promised a revolution, he screwed it to France, sensing the arrival of the FSB. A handshake he is in your dull party of non-villagers.

            The collective image of the Gus revolutionary - I would describe him that way






            1. +4
              14 March 2018 17: 48
              Quote: s-t Petrov
              do you really consider yourself capable of offending me or writing a joke?

              Well, judging by your angry reaction, this is obvious! But you continue to hold a proud pose!))
            2. +3
              14 March 2018 22: 00
              St. Petrov, hi Still, I think we need to live more peacefully. Well, you can have a fight, but not a dog. I think so. yet he is not a rabid fanatic of anything. And about drones ... Maybe now it’s more convenient / profitable for us to have cheap, so to speak, a swarm of small ones with small bombs? I am a complete ignoramus in this matter.
  2. 0
    14 March 2018 15: 24
    The lag on which components does not allow us to make UAVs close in quality? But we have long-range cruise missiles.
    1. +2
      14 March 2018 15: 26
      nuclear only wassat But there they do not work pointwise - there is a shell - minus the city wassat
      1. +3
        14 March 2018 22: 07
        Quote: c-Petrov
        nuclear only wassat But there they do not work pointwise - there is a shell - minus the city wassat

        That's the horror. You know that the missile has a target of Yaroslavl, and you sit 80 km in Kostroma, and you think it will hit Yarik or miss it. We have such a triangle Yaroslavl-Kostroma-Ivanovo, 80-100-100 km.
    2. +1
      14 March 2018 15: 32
      There are many problems there. It is still being waged since the collapse of the USSR. There are no engines, electronic components, telemechanics devices. This is only what I know about ..
      Quote: emwave
      The lag on which components does not allow us to make UAVs close in quality? But we have long-range cruise missiles.
      1. +3
        14 March 2018 22: 02
        About the "No" of my telemechanics I’m very slow.
      2. 0
        15 March 2018 19: 32
        Quote: 210ox
        There are many problems there. It is still being waged since the collapse of the USSR. There are no engines, electronic components, telemechanics devices. This is only what I know about ..

        Well, they built the same X-101, but in fact this is a drone flying at a range of 4500 km. There’s even an engine not TT, and TRD.
        We also have developments, so get to know Orion ...

        http://militaryrussia.ru/blog/topic-886.html
  3. +1
    14 March 2018 15: 30
    In Russia, it is necessary to make UAVs with a nuclear engine, fill it with uranium and send them to fly over Britain, and the landing system, and therefore, the possibilities for interception, should not be provided. wink
    Laughter, laughter, but things are serious. The British have tremendous opportunities in finance and economics. They will do harm wherever possible and impossible. This is a "silent" war of the 21st century, which these obscurantists again unleashed against Russia. This must be firmly said, because only in this case can one win a victory over these British neo-fascist poisoners.
  4. 0
    14 March 2018 16: 47
    It seems that you began to get rid of the Traitors? To England are being sold?
    1. 0
      14 March 2018 16: 50
      This is Protector, not Predator
      1. +2
        14 March 2018 21: 24
        where are they to them? in Afghanistan, to observe poppy plantations, so God forbid they do not spoil .... just the right one was found
        1. 0
          14 March 2018 21: 36
          UAVs are a cool thing. Especially when there is cool optics, a couple of days of time and suspension points for some kind of whirlwinds. It will be easier in the Caucasus. Keep the border under control in the heat, patrol the river. In the Far East, it will be easier to restore order again. Yes, and we have enough islands =]

          Mikhan will be seen as he is poaching the Kazakhs. Maybe the parcel will even be thrown 50 kg to help

          In general, the thing in the household is necessary. There are some tasks that you can remove from airplanes and transfer them to these devices
          1. +4
            14 March 2018 21: 41
            it’s not even discussed! a very necessary thing .. I don’t know that we didn’t catch up when the merikos in Afghanistan showed their high efficiency ... now Kalashnikov has seriously taken up this problem ...
            1. +2
              14 March 2018 21: 44
              we wish this serious enterprise success drinks
              1. +2
                14 March 2018 21: 46
                unconditionally join drinks .... let them accelerate without harming quality soldier
  5. 0
    14 March 2018 23: 30
    But we have a hyper duper rocket. Already one. And even with gos in the nose. Because hyper.