(Part 1) Drone Killing Weapon: Rheinmetall Air Defence AHEAD Ammunition | Penetration Simulation 

1.52* no no, divide by zero and the true total of projectiles will be revealed.

Warthunder: hit

There's a hole in your right wing!

@@wiwbssjh8233 hole: entire wing cutoff. Game: there’s a hole in your right wing

Player 45340: suffering right wing

Target undamaged

Seems very justified and reasonable, they were clearly spies

*free bird plays*

Chain shot is what it's called

Certain anti-air missiles use a warhead with a cluster of metal rods welded together end-to-end to achieve a similar effect. The warhead explodes as its passing alongside the target aircraft, and the explosive forces the metal rods to fly apart and bend into a rapidly expanding halo shape that cuts clean through anything it hits. Eventually the halo breaks apart into shrapnel that can also cause damage. It's a really cool concept.

Let me try it soon 😁😆

If theyre low and close enough it definitively could be used against them

it would work nice i think, but the porblem is actually hitting it. Fighter jets fly to fast and high for guns to be viable. There are some gun AA's but the bullets explode before impact creating the same effect.

With proper radar or tv guidance this could hit anything in the air. Jets are hard though because they're so fast and tend to fly very high

@@cykacat4196 War in Ukraine says otherwise. Their treetop level 90 percent of the time, because of missile based air defense.

@@altf4834 Yes because they failed to gain their dominance in the first few days of the war if they did get an air dominance they would’ve seen that all they needed to do was fly and drop bombs from supersonic high altitudes

No, the velocity would drop instantly, in fact they need one of the most complicated fuse setups we have ever developed, as the speed of the round is measured and the fuse time set via magnetic induction at the end of the barrel.

@@quantuman100 I believe the comment is implying that if we make each piece arrowdynamic such as all the fragmentation are small darts released in the same orientation then they would be able to create a shotgun like effect and continue on much like a normal bullet.

@@moustrout1299 so, physics is the reason we don't do this, the speed/range of an object has to do with the energy in the round, and it's energy bleed. the total amount of energy the round has is dependent on the mass of the projectile (more mass = holds more energy)and the diving charge (more boom = more energy). The energy bleed is primarily due to drag, and that is always limited by surface area. now due to the square law a lot of small individual submunitions would very quickly lose energy because you just increased the total surface area by a lot. This is why they made such a complex system to encode the timing of the explosion of the fancy AA round they use.

@@quantuman100 more of just a theory, while I cannot calculate speed myself, My question wonders whether, if we use a flachette that is arrowdynamic as the fragmentation, so a number of small darts that have fin stabilization and rotation, How much further could we push the range of such a fragmentation shot.

@@moustrout1299 short answer; it doesn't work

I rather have an overkill bullet that I dont need than an ineffective one when I need it.

@@insomnia20422 And this is exactly your potential problem: If you use up the expensive ammo with the rare material shooting at drones you might not have any ammo left when the air-tank shows up. You can easily produce and buy more steel ammo than tungsten ammo, so you should save the real stuff for the real stuff. That always-only-the-best philosophy works fine in peace times.

The cost for the tunsten balls in one of these projectiles would be about $20. The fuse and body and electronics inside of it cost many times more than the tungsten itself. Against drones, you'd need only a quick 1 second burst to take it out.

Thank you for this information. I thought the tungsten would be way more expensive. @@ImBigFloppa

There is no such thing as "armored" air targets. If an aircraft has any meaningful amount of armor to resist a direct hit from a kinetic projectile, that aircraft will be too heavy to fly anyway, redering it unusable. If you are implying A-10 or SU-25, these two aircrafts only have slightly thicker layer of titanium around their cockpits to stop post-penetration fragment, not direct hit from kinetic projectile of any caliber. The rest of their airframes are as equally vulnerable to kinetic damage as any other aircraft.

with a controlled cone shaped kill area you can calculate efficient overlapping kill zones instead of relying on random shrapnel so you can get better firing solutions and conserve ammunition

Less electronic size = more warhead load.

Because AHEAD is not only anti air. It is also for example the Pumas primary ammunition against soft targets like infantry and thin skinned vehicles They only carry AHEAD and APFSDS and no traditional HE ammo. With a time fuzed shell you can do such fun things as detonate it exactly over trench to shred the infantry down in the trench, or shoot through a wall and have the shell detonate behinde the fall, fragging everyone inside. You can't do this with a proxy fuze. Also, a precise time delayed fuze is cheaper than a proxy fuze.

That's inexpensive to manifacture so less profit incentive. That's literally the reason, do not believe whatever reason you are told, that's just smokescreening. "It is at least more effective, at just 300x the cost"

Next vid will be about shooting down drones with this weapon.

@@militarysimulationlab i have to see that

@@militarysimulationlab Can't wait!

In a world of guided missiles and high-tech weapons, the revolutionary part is probably the price tag

@@dsdy1205 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I think even slight damage of propellers or ducts induced by the small projectiles is enough to cause malfunctions.

Haha, Puma go BONK BONK BONK :D

Thank you

I think so

No, gepard use ordinary projectile.

You can find more details here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raufoss_Mk_211

@@militarysimulationlabThats 50 cal ammo.this is 35 mm programmable ammo