Interesting UAV. Recent events seem to indicate the SPEAR series of UAVs are battle tested as well…and quite good at what they are designed to accomplish.
They just tested an AI drone in Ukraine. I don't know much about it but they said it could identify and tell the difference between 160 different military vehicles 😮
They look expensive. Why would anyone buy these when they can make them with parts and then have them drop grenades and reuse them. A Ukraine drone that is not reusable probably cost less than a $100.
lol NO FPV drone are reusable FPV drones usually refer to the ones with wire that carry heavy ordnance like RPGS. . . DROPPING grenades on a vechile retreating at 40-50mphs isnt an easy target for droped muitions lol that why FPV drones are used. Also this thing is really meant to go closer to the front than the average drone operator would like to get. . . imagine ground drones that can go behind enemy lines and loiter untill needed to strike air defense behind enemy lines at no risk to the operator
@@lachlanbell8390 lol 400$ is a little low. More like a few thousand. But your point still stands. IR cameras are at least a couple thousand by themselves.
Did you think those ghouls would sacrifice a fraction of their profit margins to pay for a creatives team? Where else are they supposed to get ideas for new products & applications?
If you are near tanks and or big diesel trucks you wont hear a drone until its right on top of you. Even in a fairly quiet environment you wont hear them if they are high enough.
@@AdrenalineRu5h fair, but making them quieter with the new quieter blade designs that have come out in the last few years could make them even more effective and even harder to detect.
I'm not big into drones & RC stuff, but I'd guess the civilian cost of these technologies would be somewhere in the $5K to $20K range, depending stuff like range/flight time etc. The only real non-civilian technology would be the warhead. I don't know the cost to produce a tiny warhead like this, but for argument's sake let's say the warhead doubles the cost; that would take it from $20K to a $40K drone. So you've got a drone that might normally cost say $40K to produce. But that drone is being supplied to the US military, which means the purchase price will probably be like $500K a pop. *General Dynamics & Raytheon cannot & will not be deprived of their record breaking year-on-year profits, my friend.*
