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Old 12th Mar 2022, 11:46
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nomorecatering
 
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Ok, time for the dumb question.

These turkish drones are apparently giving the Russians quite some curry. The drone being used (TB2) has a wingspan of 39 feet, cruises at 70 kts. So why arent they being blown out of the sky before they get to the target with the Russian Stinger equivalent. The Russian Air Force is MIA so they don't have top cover and the mythical "lookdown, shootdown" capability. They certainly seem not to have any AWACS support.

Maybe 50 x AT-802U's roaming around the countryside at low level is not such a daft idea after all.

Some enterprrising chaps and chapetts have rigged up drones to carry molotove cocktails. But what about an even simpler idea. A simple hook & release system to pick up a morter bomb. Fly off the top of a small building, hover over a tank and bombs away then a pre programmed random track back to landing sight for the next morter bomb load, rinse and repeat. Now I have no idea if the vertical accuracy of a dropped morter from say 500 feet - does it swirl around etc. A friend of mine was able to drop a steel dart on a wrecked car from 300 feet. It was hard to see the drone at 300ft even when you know it was there with the naked eye. Couldn't hear it either.

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