Will it match or exceed the 40kg payload capacity of the Shahed-135?
The turbine will eat fuel compared to a piston engine with a propeller. Back in Oman, one of the guys in our RC club had a fighter jet model. It used about a gallon of jet fuel in 8-10 minutes.
This is something any number of us are capable of building in our garages using mostly off the shelf parts.
You can buy advanced electronics for flight, radios, servos/actuators, the jet engine itself, fuel pump, tank, etc.
The fuselage could be hand laid in molds using low cost wet or prepreg with a rudimentary autoclave...Example for Gearheaded Geeks
I'm not seeing anything terribly advanced here...
And that's not all... automated terrets, non-lethal "discombobulators", high frequency drone "droppers" and other technologies are readily available to us knuckle draggers with enough interest, coin and work.
It's sad how many wealthy people there are who seem to have no direction and accomplish nothing if value.
Meanwhile there are a bunch of us tinkerers and gearheads who are capable of and would build some amazing shit just for giggles if we had the spare coin and weren't working our asses off all day just to buy food and pay the mortgage.
The high end of surface to surface drone warfare. It is not safe to be on the ground in major wars.
It's a drone bomb. The Iran one costs 10-20K. They already have 80K of them and can make 500/month. Someone on the US side didn't do the math.
You forget how our govt likes to blow money on contracts and spend billions on nonsense
Im sure the 100k price takes that into account for pure profit$$
Well they gotta have humans that survive to fire them off.
Hey, I want one too.
Will it match or exceed the 40kg payload capacity of the Shahed-135?
The turbine will eat fuel compared to a piston engine with a propeller. Back in Oman, one of the guys in our RC club had a fighter jet model. It used about a gallon of jet fuel in 8-10 minutes.
There's nothing genius here... BTW.
This is something any number of us are capable of building in our garages using mostly off the shelf parts.
You can buy advanced electronics for flight, radios, servos/actuators, the jet engine itself, fuel pump, tank, etc.
The fuselage could be hand laid in molds using low cost wet or prepreg with a rudimentary autoclave...Example for Gearheaded Geeks
I'm not seeing anything terribly advanced here...
And that's not all... automated terrets, non-lethal "discombobulators", high frequency drone "droppers" and other technologies are readily available to us knuckle draggers with enough interest, coin and work.
Gotta get my pies out of the oven...
Carry on...
It's sad how many wealthy people there are who seem to have no direction and accomplish nothing if value.
Meanwhile there are a bunch of us tinkerers and gearheads who are capable of and would build some amazing shit just for giggles if we had the spare coin and weren't working our asses off all day just to buy food and pay the mortgage.