New Iranian drone missile carrier

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That's Fireball XL5, it was long before Thunderbirds got going.. . God I'm showing my age.....

If you watch closely, you will see a guest appearance by Buster

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Originally Posted by mike-wsm

Milo, yes, all very doubtful, they seem to have started from BQM-126, first altering the empennage and later moving the engine. Not sure about the 24 hrs.

24h endurance with a jet engine and short stubby slightly swept wings in a transonic design of approx. 1000kg ????
If they managed to do that LM and Raytheon would be standing in queues to hire the designers.
I would be amazed if they managed to keep that thing in the air for more than 1 hour with ordnance!

The drone in the last video seems a much more reasonable design for long endurance albeit surely at much much lower speeds and with a small combustion engine.

Regarding swarms: If we are talking about the latter design traditional tripple A will do wonders against these slow moving 'static' targets if not flying too high. At altitude it's turkey shoot for any fighter. I would not get too panicked because of this.