IT'S CALLED THE RAINBOW-817
Just a reminder that if China has shit like this the U.S. almost certainly does too, and it might be more advanced. Fucking scary implications for future resistance to empire
Most of the planes we have domestically are surveillance planes. Check out this AFB in OKC
Absolutely love how libs will get so worried and upset about East Germany's Stasi when large US cities employ probably the same amount of surveillance personnel as the entirety of the GDR.
This is why I think anyone who says the USA is a free, stable democracy is completely and utterly full of shit. Just completely fucking full of shit. The "democracy" is just window dressing, if we're so free why do we need the GREATEST security apparatus ever devised? Like legit the US government probably knows when you fart
In still think that this tech is actually pretty useless. It's just vaporware that's used to excuse massive amounts of funding being pumped into the MIC.
Remember when NYPD got one of those robodogs to patrol a low income housing complex and someone just tossed it out a window within like a week?
So the solution is to walk without rhythym? Real life becoming more like Dune every day
Besides the fbi, local pd in medium sized cities had drones and helicopters at the protests. They're ready to expand full scale COIN operations domestically
but they don't even need to because the left still doesn't exist here
I keep joking about this but no shit they will probably have Half Life 2 style man hacks in the near future
Yup, we have them.
The drone can be fired from a 40mm grenade launcher and be hand thrown as well.
The modular bay of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) allows handlers to fit a payload into the tiny aircraft according to the nature of the mission.
The UAV can be equipped with munitions including counter-drone hard and soft kill options, flashbangs, and chemical smoke along with kinetic options.
Not as much as you'd think. Everyone knows that drones are the future for combat but you can't justify huge price tags on them like you can with a jet fighter or warship. So they don't get invested in as much as you'd think. The only drones we take seriously are the big hunter/killer stuff. Everything else is treated like a toy.
Its hard to guage the disparity in drone tech between the US and China militaries since both will hide their tech but overstate what they do show. To get a solid comparison, look at the commercial market. The top of the line commercial drones are from DJI a Chinese company. Professionals will tell you everything else is just a hobbiests toy.
we need autonomous anti-drone drones at protests. like the modern equivalent of using hawks to kill carrier pigeons.
Commoners having autonomous drones is sort of a stretch. A cheap FPV drone that gets piloted to suicide ram another is more reasonable, assuming the target doesn't evade. If the target can evade then even an autonomous one would be hard.
Jamming their radios seems to be the way forward. Cheaper consumer models can be jammed with simple WiFi attack. Military grade ones you'll need something like a radio emitter.
We have to create our own battle drones to destroy the government drones. This will be the robot war
The usa military tech is trash bro. It's just all the same recycled shit
Also the project drags out for 10 years and cost 10x times the original budget, before finally they took a coin flip whether to push it into service or scrap it altogether.
Mr. Xi Jinping, I am a poor 30-something geriatric millennial from the USA, my family is poor and living under oppression of the Biden administration. I request the PLA armed with RAINBOW-817 vtol uavs to liberate us.
holy shit it has what looks like the Obama campaign logo on it lmfao
so appropriate that his branding is now just shorthand for flying death drone
I'm pretty sure improvised versions of this (literally a hand grenade strapped to a consumer RC quadcopter) have been in use for years in irregular warfare.
This is cool and all, but when are we gonna see a modernized flying guillotine?
Hahaha that hardcore yoga long arm dude is the stuff of legends. Throwing his owl lmao
Loitering suicide drones were proven extremely effective in the Nagarno-karabakh war last year. Azerbaijan had a bunch of drones like these from Turkey and Israel and they massacred Armenian troops still in their buses to the front lines.
Its very easy to sneak these things past battle lines and they're almost impossible to detect much less do anything about once you see them. The psychological effect of them alone is worth it.
Yeah idk how effective these would be in comparison to those but I think they'll be more effective than a mortor. They're more like a trap than an assault weapon and they seem more effective than a claymore.
Have you considered if you were in a tactical espionage action situation
I mean they carry remote control rocket launchers, claymores, a dozen different firearms, armfuls of rations, and a variety of cardboard boxes.
I sort of wish that Kojima was still making MGS games... old school ones like MGS 1 & 2 though, not this MGS 4 shit
I disagree, it seems like a truly man-portable recon drone that if it's cheap enough it could augment light infantry and SF capabilities by a significant amount.
That's details that're told to us. Think about whether or not a military organization is going to give exact details on their equipment capabilities
Mortars are mostly defeated by digging in, even a simple foxhole or trenches can act as very good defence against them. These will blow directly on targets.
There are only 535 (538 gets its name from the number of electoral college votes).
thank you. is there an emoji for "I feel really dumb for not remembering this"
Micro-UAVs are fucking cursed.
I pray for technological collapse to save us from their scourge.
