The sniper drone that can move at 200km/h, fire an accurately aimed shot and then relocate in 500 milliseconds is not realistic.
A powerful sniper rifle like a Barret 50 cal weighs 15kg; a drone that can carry that will add say another 35kg at a minimum. Now you have to accelerate from 0 to 50 m/s in 500ms which is a 10g acceleration. Drones available today seem to have a thrust to weight ratio of around 2, so your maximum acceleration is only 2g—and some of that is taken up just hovering. there’s also some time required to change the orientation of the propeller blades. So realistically it’ll be a 1g acceleration after a few hundred millisecond or more delay and that thing will be very vulnerable to high-velocity counterfire, especially 25mm and 30mm airburst rounds.
I’d love to see a swarm of sniper drones go up against a 30mm airburst system
Ok sure without going into the details I don’t dispute an advanced gun system can take out the drones. However such a system counts as armor in my system. It would get the anti armor attack I have described elsewhere. Surely the gun costs more than a suitably sized missile so we get back to coordinated drone swarm with different units vs fixed armor
The sniper drone that can move at 200km/h, fire an accurately aimed shot and then relocate in 500 milliseconds is not realistic.
A powerful sniper rifle like a Barret 50 cal weighs 15kg; a drone that can carry that will add say another 35kg at a minimum. Now you have to accelerate from 0 to 50 m/s in 500ms which is a 10g acceleration. Drones available today seem to have a thrust to weight ratio of around 2, so your maximum acceleration is only 2g—and some of that is taken up just hovering. there’s also some time required to change the orientation of the propeller blades. So realistically it’ll be a 1g acceleration after a few hundred millisecond or more delay and that thing will be very vulnerable to high-velocity counterfire, especially 25mm and 30mm airburst rounds.
I’d love to see a swarm of sniper drones go up against a 30mm airburst system
Ok sure without going into the details I don’t dispute an advanced gun system can take out the drones. However such a system counts as armor in my system. It would get the anti armor attack I have described elsewhere. Surely the gun costs more than a suitably sized missile so we get back to coordinated drone swarm with different units vs fixed armor