>6000 rounds of 5.45x39, 20 or so AK74s, >100 hand grenades, >6 anti-tank mines or >20 person-days of rations, depending on how it's packed.jimbob wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 8:02 pm68kg doesn't seem very much, unless it's for very specific uses.EACLucifer wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 7:29 pmOne bit of kit Britain is reportedly sending are cargo drones - big quadcopters designed to carry up to 68kg for some distance.
The question I have is this: are they going to be used for their intended purpose of delivering cargo, or are the Ukrainians going to bodge them into the heavy bomber of the multi-copter drone world, and use them to drop heavy mortar bombs/artillery shells/loads of grenades/other disagreeable objects on Russian positions.
I note that there is reported partisan activity in South Eastern Ukraine
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgr ... ment-may-4
Maybe such drones would be useful for that if they have the range and likelihood of getting through. It seems more an amount that would be useful for smallish ground forces than anything else.
So no, not a huge amount of use for supplying large, regular formations, but a few deliveries could support partisans or SOF for a while.
But that payload capacity could also be used for a thermal camera and one of the following options;
1x152mm artillery shell
2-3x122mm artillery shell
4x120mm mortar bomb
~20x82mm mortar bomb
~60 RKG1600s - the munition Aerorozvidka are using with quadcopters
And potentially, if a way could be found to designate the target up to 10 MAM-C or 2 MAM-L munitions, the latter already in use with Bayraktar TB2s.