Hatchet: Miniature Precision Strike Munition Group 3 UAS Integration

Hatchet is a miniature precision strike munition, weighing approximately six pounds, integrated on a group 3 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
Hatchet provides a kinetic capability to Group 2-5 UAVs, or integrated with missiles, using GPS to precisely guide itself to a target.
Its payload rivals those in the several hundred-pound class. The size, accuracy and lethality of Hatchet is optimal for use on all aircraft, but specifically enhances unmanned aircraft missions.
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[@SuperTf2fan]

1:05 That's Jerry, Northop Grumman's premiere knob-wiggler. It's incredible they captured him on video

[@ttpechon2535]

Wow that's such a cool system! Also love the name, Hatchet, very neat.

[@Erik-rp1hi]

Please designed into it to make it cheap so more can be bought.

[@bobwoods1302]

Very important work. 👍

[@thearsonpotato3081]

This design is brilliant for a country with the budget and military needs of the United States and I love the work use guys do. I hope to someday work for Northrop or a company in the same field and hope to do the same thing you guys do every day. Yall are the tip of the spear for the military industrial complex and I love your work.

[@deathcorepyro]

I would love to get a copy of the team photo we took for memory keepsake, never got it through official chanels 😅 -jump 20 operator during jaded thunder

[@Zombicorn731]

Thank you Northrop Grumman!

[@nailujgilroy501]

Thank you Northrop

[@philchristmas4071]

Great design. A little bigger warhead for armor would be nice. Ukraine goes through 10,000 + drones a month and on a good day they take out 3-5 vehicles/soldiers. So anything above a 1.5% kill ratio, you will have a better success rate.

[@teeanahera8949]

I guess you made that up. On a good day, which we see on UA-cam about 3 times a week, there are 8 to 15 armoured vehicles taken out. Now with regard to soldiers Russia has lost well over 350,000 and only 3 - 5 per day, as you stated, this huge number couldn’t have been achieved. You’re also missing the point entirely about the size of this ordnance. The goal was to achieve a small munition that could be used in ultra close up battle conditions. A bigger warhead defeats this purpose and the pilot would have to refuse to use it. Friendlies are lost as a restful. Read the room buddy.

[@a_bar8579]

Keep going defense industry of west ✌

[@SkyfUA999]

🛸⚡👀

[@multinaute]

interesting but too expensive

[@trollingpcgames]

how much does is cost?

[@cadennorris960]

You have no idea how much it costs right now let alone when it is in full scale production. Why even make this comment? Why lie?

[@trollingpcgames]

@@cadennorris960 yeah, i have looked all over and can’t find a price for it anywhere. And personally i think it’s probably going to be cheap compared to what we are currently dropping/firing from drones on similar targets right now.

[@bobwoods1302]

Guided munitions save money.

[@kit888]

Your competition are off the shelf 40mm HEDP and RPG-7 warheads that have been successfully battle dropped in Ukraine thousands of times. How does your price/performance compare?

[@cadennorris960]

Those aren’t precision guided. Can’t drop a grenade or rpg warhead from a drone and expect it to air burst and hit a precise target. You are comparing two different types of systems as so many YT keyboard generals do.

[@asdfx30lm]

​@@cadennorris960Yes, I don't think Hatchet will take the role of RPG-7/40mm, but I can't really see it being accurate enough to be effective against trench either. So I guess it is sort of filling new-ish niche, where typical CAS (which normally a straight run strafe) won't cut? IDK tho, just another YTgeneral 😂

[@cadennorris960]

@@asdfx30lm You have no clue what you’re talking about

[@Austin-cx2xe]

You mean those PG-7 warheads that were produced 30 years ago and are 2x the size of the Hatchet? The Ukraine war has shown that accuracy and quality smaller munitions are far superiror to large unguided munitions. BM-21 GRAD is a great example of just wasting money. Yeah, it's cheap but it's so inaccurate it should be classified as an indiscriminate weapon. This hatchet just like JDAMs could hit your forhead from 30,000 feet. Russians still can't do that and we've been doing it since the Gulf War.

[@Austin-cx2xe]

@@asdfx30lm You're just as clueless as the original commenter. Go watch the video of the B-2 dropping 80 JDAMs at the same time and every single one of them hits directly where they were targeted. What makes you think it can't be accurate enough for trench warfare and a drone flying at 5k-10k AGL when a JDAM can literally park a 1000 pound bomb on a single missile launcher from 40,000 feet?

[@user-bs1kg1nu6v]

Hmmm

[@warjunky14]

Oh look, it's a super expensive 60mm mortar round with wings. Typical Defense Industry; never let an opportunity to overcharge the taxpayer go to waste.

[@napalmenthusiast4423]

Dude doesn't know how inaccurate mortars are in general. The concept is to not use saturation attack which cost more ammunition (aka money) to be fired. This is a more cost effective solution in the future. Also not included in the video, this can also be used in moving ground vehicles. Good luck hitting a moving car with a mortar