I don't know, I don't know much about these drones, but they are made in Britain, so it could be commercial off the shelf stuff (they have a "buy now" button on their website, but it just brings up details for the company's sales team.jimbob wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 9:37 pmEACLucifer wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 8:24 pm>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 pm
68kg doesn't seem very much, unless it's for very specific uses.
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.
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.
Indeed, so what is the user case for the British armed forces? Being cooler than the US military robot mules?
They are made by Malloy Aeronautics, and I can't find out much about them other than that their founder is a New Zealander who had a go at building a hoverbike.
They offer three drones on their website - the T80, T150 and T400, which correspond to their capacity in pounds. Their website talks about last mile delivery, and their page for the T400 depicts it in Royal Navy colours, so potentially small cargo loads ship to ship or ship to shore?