From now on, American soldiers will receive additional weapons: unmanned aircraft in army shoulder backpacks

The US military, especially those who perform special operations away from fire support forces, will soon receive a new weaponwith which you can do without artillery preparation or preventive air strikes.

A portable unmanned aerial vehicle that fits in a special knapsack on the back of a soldier will help to calculate the enemy’s positions and intentions, as well as attack him before the battle begins.

AeroVironment has already signed a contract with the Pentagon for the production of the first batch drones Switchblade worth $4,9 million. Manufacturers hope that the reconnaissance and strike mini-drones of the battlefield will provide significant new advantages to the US military during the fighting.

How does the new device work? Without waiting for artillery preparation, the US Army division, which has Switchblade at its disposal, will be able to launch a drone from any place with a special trigger in the form of a pipe. The flight of the device is controlled from the ground using a portable computing module. However, the drone is able to perform flight tasks and in automatic mode, without human intervention.

All data on the combat situation and the position of the enemy is also transmitted to the control module in real time. When detecting enemy units on command from the ground, the drone carrying the warhead is sent to the target.

However, the option to quickly cancel a defeat command is included in the Switchblade program options. It allows you to thus avoid the death of civilians if they suddenly find themselves in the attack zone of the drone.

For greater efficiency, the creators of the apparatus supplied the drone with a noiseless electric motor, which would allow it to secretly approach the enemy’s positions. Having approached the minimum distance to the target, the device can completely turn off the engines and go into the airframe mode.

Comments

[datur]

flying guided hand grenade - original probably and efficiently - but how much this joy costs. although Americans with their bottomless budget and printing press do not care

[rumpeljschtizhen]

Quickly they do everything .......... from development into a series ..........

[Rashid]

No wonder the civilians are mentioned. That is, initially it is supposed to fight not with the regular troops of the enemy, among which, as you know, there are no civilians, but with the people of "non-democratic" countries, which can be called terrorists or something else.

[Max]

All this costs dough, and it is unlikely in the current situation that they can afford a lot of such gizmos. And in general there is no sense in them, because Pindos have thousands of battle drones. Attack - call to the headquarters - after 10 minutes the position was destroyed by a missile with a UAV.

[Joker]

UAV calls and calls require time, and such a thing is always at hand.

[LESHA pancake]

FUNNY PIECES. ONLY UNDER THE HAMMER, THE CHARGE ARE HELPFUL TO HELP TO SUCH ANYONE BIRDS TO LAUNCH THESE.

[xmmmm]

they will soon be unable to move from the abundance of new technologies on the hump

[kosmos84]

if all this crap in battle they refuse, they are all dead

[Honory]

Ohrenet. America burned. This will significantly increase their fighting ability. Now there will be significantly more democratic countries in all kinds of Asia-Africa.