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Suicide drone? So... a missile?
by noncoml 6y ago
Suicide drone? So... a missile?
- blackflame7000 6y agoNo, because it can loiter in the air for up to 2 hours in the target area before destroying its target.
- bootlooped 6y agoA Tomahawk cruise missile can also loiter over the target area. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomahawk_(missile) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomahawk_(missile)
- whycombagator 6y agoPresumably you can abort mission with a drone and have it return home. Not sure you can do that with a cruise missile.
- serf 6y agothe IAI Harop is a missile that can loiter, and if no target is found can Return to Base.[0] Although, admittedly, the lines between 'drone' and 'missile' have begun to blur. [0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI_Harop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI_Harop
- bostonsre 6y agoHaving your missile return home seems suboptimal.
- sibartlett 6y agoThat Wikipedia article repeatedly referred to it as a stone.
- amiller2571 6y agoSo the difference between a missile and a drone is that one can fly in circles a little long than the other?
- NovemberWhiskey 6y agoBritish Aerospace delivered an anti-radiation / air-defense suppression missile called ALARM in 1990: it is capable of flying up to 40,000 feet, deploying a parachute and then waiting for the target radar to come online as it floats down. At that time, it initiates a secondary boost motor and attacks. We didn’t used to call this a suicide drone; we called it a loitering munition.
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- nirav72 6y agoso it's a next gen Tacit Rainbow? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-136_Tacit_Rainbow https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-136_Tacit_Rainbow
- BurningFrog 6y agoSo a drone delivered bomb?
- dilyevsky 6y agoSupposedly nuclear powered missiles (if they really exist) can cruise for days
- viraptor 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto looks both like an amazing idea and something super over-engineered. It looks like it would be relatively easy to spot too... and possibly shot down?
- blackflame7000 6y agoIt would be capable of ICBM speeds but maneuverable instead of traveling in a predictable arc
- sidewndr46 6y agoI agree, the title seems very clickbaity. The "Snark" had essentially the same capabilities at the start of the cold war. It was "pilotless bomber" that promised to be cheaper than bomber crews. Basically, it was a giant cruise missile that could return home if the mission was aborted. The big runway at Cape Canaveral was built specifically for it, because it landed with skids rather than wheels. It did actually reach operational status but was quickly withdrawn.
- pugworthy 6y agoIf you know your Guardians of The Galaxy lore, think Yondu's Yaka arrows, which are literally called "drone-arrows"
- xwdv 6y agoNo, because it could cancel and go back home.
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- stubish 6y agoReally strange the 'suicide drone' branding, given this War of Terror and Suicide Bombing, or WWII and Kamikaze attacks. I wouldn't have thought the US military would want to be associated with the word. Maybe they don't, but the media isn't happy with 'loitering'. I guess 'loitering' isn't much better now I think of it, with the term mostly used regarding prostitution.
- ggmartins 6y agosuicide for my pocket (tax payer's pocket).
- colechristensen 6y agoA missile than can fly from a home far away, hover (or really probably loiter, flying in circles) not too far away from a target area, then accelerate to 5000 mph after receiving a specific target. The benefit being the lag between targeting to delivery being much shorter meaning higher mission success rates, lower collateral damage, and just more flexibility.
- sliken 6y agoDrones are presumably practical to launch, loiter, and recover. Not so much with missiles. Only in the case of ordering an attack are they similar.