In the United States, the Hatchet kamikaze drone, launched from a heavy strike drone, was tested

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In the United States, the Hatchet kamikaze drone, launched from a heavy strike drone, was tested

Northrop Grumman in the United States tested the Hatchet loitering ammunition launched from a heavy strike drone MQ-1C Gray Eagle. The tests, which are currently completed, lasted a total of about six months.

This is reported by the American edition of The Defense Post.



The last stage of ammunition testing was carried out last fall. They confirmed its combat capabilities and compatibility with carrier systems. This means that the next step should be the delivery of Hatchet to the US Armed Forces and their combat deployment.

These demonstrations bring Hatchet one step closer to field deployment and operational readiness.

Northrop spokesman Joe Esler confirmed.

Such drones-kamikaze can be called miniature, because their weight does not reach even three kilograms. At the same time, the accuracy of hitting a target with a barrage of air-based ammunition is less than one meter. This is facilitated by the use of several guidance systems in the design of the product, including infrared and electron-optical.

In the future, heavy attack drones MQ-1C Gray Eagl will be equipped with such ammunition. Each of them is capable of carrying 12 Hatchet kamikaze drones on board.

At the moment, the Gray Eagle is armed with four Hellfire missiles or eight Stingers.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in one of his statements, said that the domestic defense industry should pay special attention to the development of loitering ammunition and high-precision weapons.

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  1. -7
    26 January 2023 11: 21
    As it was understood long ago, the sawmill only cares about the amount of sawn wood. An army with air defense will knock down your drone for 300 kilometers, but even for 100, the drone will not fly that much. And WITHOUT air defense, why the heck you don’t have to gouge with kamikazes - uncontrolled cast iron is cheaper.
    1. -3
      26 January 2023 11: 44
      For how convenient it is to gouge at the Indians with tpkimi means. Yes, and air defense is not omnipotent, there are holes, but this is no longer a ripper, it is a little expensive for such tasks.
    2. 0
      26 January 2023 13: 17
      That's why I watch how they are "knocked down" - dozens of quadrocopters fly along the entire front and even bomb from a low altitude with ordinary grenades, hovering in place.
  2. +5
    26 January 2023 11: 21
    Along the way, Skynet and the terminators are not as fantastic as it seemed.
    1. 0
      26 January 2023 13: 18
      Why are robots here? This is not about the Boston Dynamics news.
    2. +1
      26 January 2023 13: 33
      Drone launches drones. The next stage will be a drone behind the control panel, flying a drone, launching drones wassat
      1. 0
        26 January 2023 20: 45
        on enemy drones sitting at the control panel
        enemy drones launching enemy drones.
  3. +9
    26 January 2023 11: 22
    Drone - kamikaze. "loitering charge" - as soon as they were not called in the article. In fact, a planning bomb with guidance ...
  4. +1
    26 January 2023 11: 39
    "Vog" homing ... Well, a little more. We consider the "Lancet" with 3 kg of explosives - too small, and this? For a lone soldier?
    1. +1
      26 January 2023 12: 14
      Mountain shooter hi, well, for a starting attempt as an example, then they will drive to reveal weaknesses and strengths, and then they will either modernize and improve it or send it to the furnace.
    2. 0
      26 January 2023 12: 34
      Yes. Only not for a soldier, but for a terrorist.
    3. +2
      26 January 2023 12: 50
      Now imagine an ordinary cluster bomb, but each element in the container is such a 3 kg little thing with a cumulative warhead and individual guidance. 1 drone flew through the air defense and there is no tank column on the march.
    4. +2
      26 January 2023 13: 32
      3 kg of explosives - too small
      The Hellfire rail, on which a 49-kilogram rocket is suspended, can carry about 24 Hatchet. The weight of one mini air bomb from Alliant Techsystems is 1.81 kilograms.
      - laser seeker;
      - GPS receiver;
      - inertial guidance system.
      2012 https://topwar.ru/14590-smertelnoe-miniatyurnoe-upravlyaemoe-oruzhie-vysokotochnaya-aviabomba-hatchet.html
      electron-optical
      Since then added
      - holding a moving previously recognized target.
      Interesting PTAB turned out.
  5. -1
    26 January 2023 11: 43
    In the United States, the Hatchet kamikaze drone, launched from a heavy strike drone, was tested
    . The next stage of development... drone, carrier of drones!!!
    Stripes can walk ahead, it's not for nothing that they pull out the best "brains" from all over the world as best they can.
    1. +1
      26 January 2023 12: 05
      not in vain they draw the best "brains" from all over the world
      Turkey also has a complete analogue of this "hatchet" (English hatchet).
  6. 9PA
    -6
    26 January 2023 11: 46
    It is necessary to inflict several nuclear strikes on the technological centers of the planet, or they will come off irrevocably
    1. +1
      26 January 2023 13: 23
      Or maybe it's time to catch up, and not continue to sit backwards in a puddle?
  7. +6
    26 January 2023 11: 48
    - When we read or hear about American "affairs" - we involuntarily compare - but how do we ...

    - Americans make weapons in passing, with a sporting interest ... It's another matter with us - tight, with a creak, out of need ... The USA is a rich country, and can afford it. All funds received there are invested in the development of production and new technologies. They do not carry "extra" money to Russia and do not put it here as a dead weight in Russian Banks! They are stupid...
  8. +1
    26 January 2023 12: 14
    It’s kind of strange ... it’s not clear from the video ... this is a smart bomb or loitering ammunition ...
    1. 0
      26 January 2023 13: 29
      It seems that an adjustable and homing bomb, probably 5-7 kilometers, can fly along the course or a couple of kilometers back. This is if the accelerator is not installed on it.
  9. -2
    26 January 2023 12: 33
    Not a military complex. But against terrorists and their families.
  10. +4
    26 January 2023 12: 36
    Nicht fairstein! With what fright did the author call "Hatchet" a drone, you mean UAV! ? This "Hatchet" has been known for a long time and is known as a small-caliber gliding air munition ("bomb") without an engine! And for what reason "mad delight"? "Forpost-RU" with KAB-20 - weapons of the same "class" as the "unknown" American UAV with "Hatchet"! Unless the "Hatchet" is smaller and lighter ... but the KAB-20 is more powerful!
    1. +1
      26 January 2023 13: 55
      All this is wonderful, but are these "Forpost-RU" with KAB-20 in the right quantity on the front line in the NWO?
  11. 0
    26 January 2023 13: 06
    I wonder what the price is? For me, there are too many electronics and a small warhead is very expensive to get for such little damage that this warhead can do. But for a drone for narrow tasks it will do.
    1. +2
      26 January 2023 14: 45
      Quote: spirit
      For me, there are too many electronics and a small warhead
      For the Tumba Yumba tribe, of course, there are a lot of electronics. But, if you go to an electronics store in the Russian Federation, you can see that even after the extra charge of merchants, tax authorities, and huge inflation, an old smartphone costs about 5 thousand rubles, and there are much more electronics and it is clearly more powerful! Is it necessary to say that for the NATO countries this is generally mere pennies?

      Quote: spirit
      expensive to get for such little damage
      With regards to the warhead, then with a mass of 3 kg, there can clearly be at least 1,5 kg of C4. For comparison, in the F-1 grenade there are 60 grams of TNT, in the RGD-5 grenade - 110 grams, and in the RPG-7 grenade, if I'm not mistaken, about 400 grams. VV. But, no one says that they are ineffective, they have been produced for decades and are used in all armed conflicts. So the characteristics of this bomb can be quite significant.
  12. 0
    26 January 2023 16: 30
    The other day I took a new smart-4900, a Chinese. Better than a non-old, recessed Samsung., For ten rubles.
  13. +1
    26 January 2023 20: 51
    They will work on dugouts with a small number of soldiers. The very concept of an unimportant goal is removed. They will pour .... Look for opposition.
  14. 0
    28 January 2023 08: 18
    Soon we will see them in Ukraine, I think by the summer, as soon as the soil dries up, there will be a counterattack on the way - the Armed Forces of Ukraine will trample.

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