Presumably they're not going to use an homme with a good throwing arm for the production version.This provides the exact same benefits as for air-launched cruise missiles, right?
Neat, homing cluster munitions.
>>64751636Sometimes it's just easier I guess to have one guy pulling them out of the crate, hands it to the guy who arms and activates it, then off to the dude hucking it out the back.Sorta get however many you need and the main advantage would be the powerful relay back to the ops and your coverage, loiter time is improved. Assuming no one shoots the fuck out of the plane
>>64751636We've gone full circle back to WW1
>>64751636should try artillery delivered fpvs
>>64751636Looks stupid
>>64751644They're just testing, it's far cheaper and more convenient to have someone chuck these things out (and they're not even full-fledged drones, just analogues with telemetry), especially when the test doesn't require super precise, repeatable deployments, rather it requires more randomness to really test things out.I'm assuming they want to eventually make a palletized system, and they're probably gonna keep the deployment mechanism as simple and dumb as they can, which means it's not gonna be a precision deployment, so using a human for the test makes sense
>>64751702No point making it any more complicated than it needs to be for some applications either. I mean you could come up with a linked activation and arming circuit with a drogue chute and spinning drum to hurl them out, but when you've got load masters sitting around they don't need much of an excuse to throw things out of planes to begin with
>>64751702>I'm assuming they want to eventually make a palletized system, and they're probably gonna keep the deployment mechanism as simple and dumb as they can>>64751711>linked activation and arming circuit with a drogue chute and spinning drumFPVs are extremely stackable, I think you could just have a horizontal stack with a hatch at the end that you pull a cord or press a button to open, then a mechanism to push the stack out, maybe a piston or conveyor belt but I think you could reuse the hatch opening mechanism and have a winch at the safe end of the tube which both pulls open the hatch and then pulls out the base of the stack.It could but need not be motorised.Drones are basically square so these horizontal tubes can be square too which makes logistics for the whole thing pretty simple.If you reused these on land vehicles, they'd look pretty much like any multi-rocket TEL.
big unmanned mothership flying over the battlefield shitting out baby drones when?
>>64751641Two-fold, I think?You can use them as smart 'carpet bombing': empty an entire container of 'm over enemy terrain, let the drones seek & destroy. Could also be neat if you want to blow up precise (but hard to hit) targets, like power lines.Or you can just scatter them like you said, and have them land, go into standby mode and wait for enemies to come close. Then fly up and leap towards whoever triggered them.
>>64751698Because it's testing.
>>64751949>Or you can just scatter them like you said, and have them land, go into standby mode and wait for enemies to come close. Then fly up and leap towards whoever triggered them.At least these air deployed smart mines are limited by battery life so they're kind of self-liquidating.Children will try to remove the explosives and use them as toys though, I can see little brown children in some middle eastern city playing tag amidst the ruins with demilitarised homing mines chasing them through bombed out compounds as they laugh and scream.
>>64751693Genius! But classified. Agents are on thier way.
>>64751636>out of thier American transport planeFrogs aren't as smart as they think they are.
for those nog in the know the DGA is the procurement office. and also does internal testing/r&d organization.so they'll try out weird and retarded shit just so they can say it's retarded. or in this case doe some of their own testing first so they have a better idea of what they want if they ever try and procure a system. also helps them figure out if you are trying to bullshit them with your bid.
>>64751972Huh? Last I checked, Airbus wasn't US-owned.
>>64751924The program is behind schedule.
>>64752010So they just copied the C130. Typical for Russians, I expected more.from France.
>>64751636Why are they hand throwing them instead of it letting it fly out on its own?
Probably testing to see how survivable deployment at high speeds is. I imagine the finalised version is going to look at lot like the one-way attack drones that russia and ukraine are deploying at scale, but rather than having a single warhead it carries a swarm of smaller drones. I can see this kind of thing having a lot of utility against air defenses - launch a few carrier drones ahead of the main attack, have them disable radars and launchers to make a hole in the net. Countering this system would require significant increases to point defenses around the air defense systems themselves.
>>6475201550% of American "inventions" are just copies from British/German designs.
>>64752051BETTER copies, fuck yeah!
>>64752034More that that the say>fly birdie, fly!In a sexy french accent baby voice. Hon hon hon!
>>64752037>French officials involved in the trials emphasized that such testing is essential to refine numerical models. Multiple physical and mechanical parameters must be understood and controlled, including separation dynamics, aerodynamic behavior in the aircraft’s wake, impact forces, and the structural resilience of the drones themselves.
>>64751653>parer ca, tu filthy cassuel!
>>64751968The tech for that has been around since the 1980s. Rocket launched and guided payloads from big guns is a solved tech
