Det neste blir anti anti-drone drone -
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Drone Hunting Jet Drone
Unveiled
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December 3,
2023
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A Silicone
Valley defense contractor (yep) says it’s come up with a relatively inexpensive
high speed jet drone to counterract the drone swarms that are reshaping war
half a world away. Both Ukraine and Russia are becoming increasingly reliant on
pilotless kamikaze drones that can loiter invisibly for hours and pounce on
unsuspecting targets with high explosive payloads. The hunter becomes the
hunter when Anduril’s new Roadrunner is on station. It will use artificial
intelligence to identify targets but a person will pull the trigger to destroy
it. “Our driving belief is that there has to be human agency for identifying
and classifying a threat, and there has to be human accountability for any
action that gets taken against that threat,” Christian Brose, chief strategy
officer at Anduril, told Wired.
Functionally,
the drone borrows an idea from an interesting but wholly impractical aircraft
developed in the early 1950s, the Convair
XFY-1 Pogo. The Pogo was designed to take off and land
vertically from its criss-crossed tail and although it did that (precariously)
it really couldn’t do much else. The patio-heater-sized Anduril blasts out of
its own self contained hangar that looks like a portable toilet. It can then
fly at high subsonic speeds to the operation area and hunt for enemy drones. If
it doesn’t find any, it can fly back to the tiny hanger and land vertically
through the top hatch.
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