Why can't we make drones go supersonic? Just strap a inlet cone and aerospike to microjet
>>65121117Seems like a lot of complexity when a solid fuel rocket could do the same job.
They can but it increases costs enough it's not worth the effort.Please use a Pepe as the OP pic for questions this stupid.
>>65121119I don't think solid motors can run for more than a minute.
>>65121125A lot of jet-powered munitions use solid rocket boosters at launch to reach the speeds necessary for the jet engines to function.This dates back to WWII, and the tech was very common during the cold war. It's still used in things like anti-ship missiles.What all these systems have in common is that they're big, expensive, and complicated.Not the kind cheap temu-tier garbage used in modern drone spam.
>>65121117>Why can't we make drones go supersonic? Just strap a inlet cone and aerospike to microjetThey are too small. Supersonic flight becomes progressively easier the larger the aircraft is due to basic physics as aircraft volume increases proportional to the size increase ^3 but the surface area increases proportional to size increase ^2. That is why Concorde could supercruise across the Atlantic but F-22 cant. It could carry a much larger amount of fuel relatively to its drag generation so it could fuel four very thirsty and very large engines for hours. You can have your drone do supersonic flight but it wont be able to fly for long or for very far. I suggest you look up old fashioned ramjet surface to air missiles, the USN had an entire line of ramjet SAMs, the brit navy still used a ramjet SAM into the early 90s and the pajeets still use a SAM based on a ramjet engine. These are your supersonic drones. You can see this in bullet speed loss charts, a bullet loses speed really fast when supersonic but once it is subsonic air drag decreases a lot. When you go supersonic you have to push the air in front of you out of the way faster than it can move so you compress it (takes a lot of energy) and this generates a sonic boom, when you are subsonic the air will flow around you and no boom is created.
That's just a fucking missile at that point.
>>65121117The point of modern drones now is their being cheap, the experimental period where they were expensive testbeds for the Iraq conflict is long over. The more bullshit you add to them, the less point they have.
>>65121117That would be a missile.
>>65121209>>65121630They already are missiles.
>>65121630Yeah but missiles don't run for 15 minutes
>>65121173>They are too small. Supersonic flight becomes progressively easier the larger the aircraft is due to basic physics as aircraft volume increases proportional to the size increaseBullets are supersonic
>>65121905They fly instead
>>65121117G forces.The true reason drones are cheap is because they don't need specialized electronics and guidance systems designed to handle massive Gfroces or heat. While drones can use many commercial components missiles need every component specially designed to handle high gforces and high heat. Making those parts orders of magnitude more expensive, often patented and not mass produced. The more you try to make a drone a missile the more it loses is cost effectiveness and progressively just becomes more and more similar a long range cruise missile. All this said around 500km/h is a realistic speed that should be manageable without massive cost increases instead of the current common 200km/h which in my opinion is a bit too slow.
>>65121905Tomahawks are generally in the air for 1hr or more
>>65122119Hey man I just want a supersonic fpv drone to knock some sky tanks
>>65122189Get a TV guided missi I-i mean drone then. They've been around for decades
>>65122261>They've been around for decadesLiterally WWII-era tech, but then again so are atomic bombs...
>>65121117Just use rocket motors, no need to make fancy pants UAVs to counter flying lawn mowers
>>65121117>Why can't we make drones go supersonic? Just strap a inlet cone and aerospike to microjetBecause it's not needed.
>>65121117The energy consumed fighting aerodynamic drag is proportional to the square of your velocity. TranSonic and Supersonic flight require oodles of power which requires scads of fuel. It’s just not easy or worthwhile for small, light, cheap medium range missiles and “drones”.
>>65121630>missiles and drones and bombs are now a spectrum>you must now respect MLGBUAV+ munitions
mini nuclear ramjet drones or boring normal chemical/gas we could fill with with something spicy like azide azidoazide or some other super explosive thats like at least a dozen times stronger than RDX
>>65122470>something spicy like azide azidoazidestop adding nitrogen you will not even be able to move this shit
