Thread 64376455

Sikorsky Nomad VTOL UAS
https://youtube.com/watch?v=EYgqlfCbrQ0

>>64376455 (OP)
>Unmanned
Does it just crash directly on top of marines then or how does it work?

>>64376467
Not sure. Better wait for the Chinese to copy it and see what happens to their marines.

>>64376566
>their marines
That's the People's Liberation Army Navy Army to you, gweilo.

>>64376675
Excuse me but they identify as the People's Liberation Armed Army Forces Navy Army Air Force.

How do they load the stores on the wing pylons if this thing is supposedly sitting vertically on the ground?

HOLY SHIT, new FRESH FRUITS just dropped.

>>64376455 (OP)
Rolling for friendly fire incidents

>>64376842
Using another drone, while it's airborne

>>64376675
kek

A teathre near me?

>>64376467
fippy bippy

>>64376842
Just loaded vertically

>>64377427
So they need to develop an entire set of new ground-handling equipment for it. Seems expensive

>>64376455 (OP)
How does it crash and kill marines?

>>64376675
Actually it's the People's Liberation Army Navy Army Air Fo-橙子鸡?tr.weibo.com-error553-weem-conguo-&translate-zh-en-炒饭?

>>64376455 (OP)
how do those rockets clear the propellers?

>>64376455 (OP)
Is any of that footage not CGI?

>>64376455 (OP)
i understand this thing is probably better suited for the modern era but fuck what a visual downgrade compared to the attack heli

>>64376455 (OP)
I dunno, Luckup's Peacemaker UAV carries more and is jet-powered.

>flares pointed backwards

Why would an onboard missile logic system in year 2025 ever change target to a new vector suddenly directly opposite of the original target path?

Is it just a sad hope that the hostile missile system is that archaic + the defending aircraft will be far enough away from the rear pointed flares that it'll -usually- increase survivability, or is there something else I am missing?

There is no way missiles are still being produced in 2025 with such shitty path prediction, right?

>>64377908
shit taste

>>64378053
Are you sure those are flares, not some sort of bomblet dispensers?

>>64377612
It's not that big. You'll just load it by hand

>>64377427
Everything old is new again.

>>64378103
They were a pita to land. You basically had to park it in the sky and back towards the land by looking over your shoulder. Beep beep beep like a truck.

>>64376455 (OP)
i thought of this for full size chopper but with also smaller props top and bottom for 4 rotor drone, and the big props might fold or stop spinning to become thin wings when feathered.

>>64378103
>BOUNCE POGO POGO POGO POGO POGO POGO POGO

>>64378053
>directly opposite of the original target path
I think you forgot momentum exists.

>>64376455 (OP)
Cool but as I don't think it can hover and still use the weapons an Apache would be better for loitering. Might be something they can change with rotating engines similar to an Osprey though would add weight and complexity.

>>64376675
>that false flag post
The PLA is an axis of regime threats who are condemned by a plethora of human rights experts

>>64378083
that's the smallest one
I mean the big weapon-carrying one in the OP
Loading things like JAGM, SPIKE and Griffin on to those pylons vertically isn't going to be easy.

>>64378103
Most of the supposedly "crazy" aviation projects in the past suddenly don't become so crazy when you don't have to risk pilots.

>>64379360
I thought that was Bald&Bankrupt standing on the side from the thumbnail kek.

>>64376814
No, they're going by the New People's Liberation army Armed Coast guard air force navy marine corps national guard

>>64379360
I suspect the big ones will operate from bases not just anywhere. They will make whatever equipment it needs

>>64377861
Forget clearing the propellers. How do the rockets at the back launch at all?

>>64382228

those could be mine droppers or flares/countermeasures.

>>64376467
Kek

>>64379121
>Apache would be better for loitering
No rotor wing is going to be better than a fixed wing at loitering, pretty much ever

>>64376455 (OP)
Damn they're making these drones way too sexy nowadays, no decency

>>64382793
You're replying to a retard who thinks helicopters hover in place while on station

>>64379360
The propellers of the smallest ones only reach up to the man's waist in that size comparison picture. Is it being maintained by the king of manlets?

>>64382228
That is rack for mini bombs like hatchet, they are launched tail first.

No.64382228
flare counter messures
firing flares downward to stop Manpads from getting a lock.

doesn't sound that bad but timing got to be perfect

>>64376455 (OP)
Mutts still stick to this useless obsolete MALE meme shit? Lul

>>64382228
They're probably for AGM-176A Griffin