03-17-2022, 11:21 PM
Lot of acronyms '52, hope I followed that!
Or on an unmanned aerial system (UAS, right?), a small one (portable/man carried/launched) you could mount either cluster-type bomblets or self-propelled, or fin-guided dinky rockets/explosives... drop-launch then they fire off and go.
idea being to miniaturize since you could get "close" overhead, using an arc-trajectory - not a lot of recoil...?
I do like the idea of having that little mule or truckin' buddy to pack some of the gear for the guys...
The Navy is developing a drone-helo-carried anti-mine detector, capable of on-board sensing of underwater mines - which means detecting and interpreting electronic/emf/infrared/visible signals on-board, process with AI and then sending back identification and location to the "mothership" in real time. All the ship needs to do is prep and fire a countermeasure or avoid or whatever....
The day will come when anti-submarine detection will be done by these guys, or even over-horizon recon for small ship detachments.
The leap that the Navy tech is doing is this pod can do all the detect/identify/locate/range/ etc in real time, being carried by a drone chopper. No need to fly back to base and download it.
So what if the small-group's portable UAS (call it a sparrow-hawk) does real-time sensing, identification, location and transmit all that back to the unit, who then can send up a fire/forget load of correct type, to finish the enemy thingy off - or maybe that's already being done.
Maybe even combine the thermal/IR/NV sensing for use by our sparrow-hawk to uncover hidden but heat-signature targets, snipers, enemy squads, hidden gun emplacements...
Or on an unmanned aerial system (UAS, right?), a small one (portable/man carried/launched) you could mount either cluster-type bomblets or self-propelled, or fin-guided dinky rockets/explosives... drop-launch then they fire off and go.
idea being to miniaturize since you could get "close" overhead, using an arc-trajectory - not a lot of recoil...?
I do like the idea of having that little mule or truckin' buddy to pack some of the gear for the guys...
The Navy is developing a drone-helo-carried anti-mine detector, capable of on-board sensing of underwater mines - which means detecting and interpreting electronic/emf/infrared/visible signals on-board, process with AI and then sending back identification and location to the "mothership" in real time. All the ship needs to do is prep and fire a countermeasure or avoid or whatever....
The day will come when anti-submarine detection will be done by these guys, or even over-horizon recon for small ship detachments.
The leap that the Navy tech is doing is this pod can do all the detect/identify/locate/range/ etc in real time, being carried by a drone chopper. No need to fly back to base and download it.
So what if the small-group's portable UAS (call it a sparrow-hawk) does real-time sensing, identification, location and transmit all that back to the unit, who then can send up a fire/forget load of correct type, to finish the enemy thingy off - or maybe that's already being done.
Maybe even combine the thermal/IR/NV sensing for use by our sparrow-hawk to uncover hidden but heat-signature targets, snipers, enemy squads, hidden gun emplacements...
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