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These have explosives and a ten mile fiber optic cable. Little different.
by Cacti 2y ago
These have explosives and a ten mile fiber optic cable. Little different.
- tamimio 2y agoExplosives are just a payload (like any other payload you can attach to a drone), either independent from the whole system or activated through a simple relay. You can see ArduPilot is the ground station, where you can easily customize such switches. The distance is only about the wire/fiber; obviously, fiber is lighter, hence the longer distance for the drone to carry.
- Zamiel_Snawley 2y agoTen miles is pretty impressive, but TOW missiles are from the 70s.
- mandevil 2y agoThe Ruhrstall X-4 [1] had five and a half kilometers of wire 80 years ago, along with a 20kg warhead and an acoustic proximity fuse. 1: Never deployed operationally Luftwaffe wunderwaffen, first tested in August 1944, wire-guided air-to-air missile.