>#Benin - An Air Force "AutoGyro" Cavalon Sentinel 916 iS (reg. TY-51L | 094011) was out earlier today conducting aerial reconnaissance along the southern border with #Togohttps://x.com/fabsenbln/status/1986813609943724265cringe or based?
>>64496798Amusing. It's obvious that some african prince nigger came up with this idea spending millions instead of getting drones for a couple thousands.
>>64496803China is making gyrocopters for 5k usdhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaanxi_Baoji_Special_Vehicles_Lie_Ying_Falconhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCjz3HZ8M8wand they're armed with 4 ATGM
ebin :DDD
>>64496806>Cavalon Sentinel 916 iS>Cavalon Kit Pricing Starts at $145,000. >Plus spares, training, fuelOkay, not millions, but AT VERY LEAST a single million, and he still probably reported the price being much higher. It's just how things are run in those sorts of shitholes.
>>64496798It is what it is, a low speed aircraft that flies like fixed wing.
>>64496803>a drone: 1-2 40mm grenades with homemade fuzes that kill the user 1% of the time>this: a whole basket of 60mm mortar bombs
>>64496798want to buy a cavalon, and MOSAIC makes it alot easier to justify a sport add on plus night training. fuck paying a DPE
>>64497385Autogyros have far greater range and loiter time than drones so. Unless you mean proper recon ones like global hawks
>>64496798I fucking hate pusher gyros. I wish somebody made a proper De La Cierva style tractor gyro, with the jumpstart main rotor from his last design (and Jukka Tervamaki's aero improvements).
>>64499957What's wrong with pusher on autogyros?
>>64499972Inherently unsafe due to power-into-ground tendency. Also rotor-prop strike risk, which isn't a thing on tractors.
>>64499957>proper De La Cierva style tractor gyro Forgot to add: make it a classic taildragger as well.
