15,000 nautical miles!?! That's 17261 miles/27,780 kilometers! That's over half of the circumference of the Earth. It can be launched anywhere and hit any target in the world (with a little over 2000 miles to spare!)
It will take 10 days to get there tho, efficieny has its disadvantages. It's effectively like a motorized glider that's as fast as an average car traveling on highway. The enemy will most definitely know they are coming. Ofc, if you can have tens of thousands of these, it would kinda stop mattering they are slow and that the enemy knows. Just send them in waves, have some sacrificial ones at the front that deploys a few dozen kill drones each and be shot down. Those will go for the ground to air defense systems and open up the way for more to enter the enemy airspace, rinse repeat. And if you couple the arrival with your own jets to handle the enemy jets, it's basicaly game over. Average soldier costs 50k dollars to train, and 100k to maintain each year, so imagine. Spread that cost over a decade, and you could have one of these drones instead of a soldier on standby. Which one would be more effective in war in terms of killing power? And if they could be made even cheaper with mass production, you might as well not have soldiers...
@@N0xietyYeah but if you automate the uneventful parts of the journey, you can just consistently launch them all day, every day. Then 10 days later just have operators guiding endless strikes.
So this drone can strike a target anywhere in the world... and it launches from a pickup truck ? This ain't Vanilla at all, it's as spicy as it gets ! Real "wings of death"
Swarm drones are the future. They will be simliar to the small FPV drones we see today but will be A.I controlled and not abled to be jammed. They will work in teams and swarms similar to what we see in a flock on birds in flight.
Face recognition isn't really viable from the air, not without some seriously expensive optics at least. Automatic Target Recognition for vehicles has been around for ages though.
@@Cryosxify Satellites can see people, but not with enough resolution to identify faces. Humans can kind of maybe identity people by satellite imagery with various extra contextual clues, but I don't think an autonomous system could do it yet.
Long endurance ,big benefit in the pacific Some advances in shore defence and monitoring more a UK priority ? Lack of inshore PT boats makes Drones a viable option to fill the gaps ,but still need manned craft to intercept any flagged up problems?
The Brits busy calling themselves the best in everything, while we close our mouths and just keep innovating. Maybe, in the next twenty-five years, we'll get to see their Tempest, with 50 year old technology. Yeah, Broke Britain. Hahahaha.
I’d be concerned that a noisy and slow drone like that would never be in the air in a battlefield situation for longer than @0 minutes as it’d be a sitting duck for even a shot from a child’s BB Gun.
I am curious what the use case for this would be. Yes, long range is great, but it's slow and can easily be taken out by SAM. I could see these being useful for surveillance in areas where the enemy does not have air defense or air supremacy but beyond that I struggle to find good use cases. Of course I am no general...
Wow, 10 days of endurance is serious IRS especially if they makes thousands that can drop Micro Drones? What is that about? The Recon ability alone is serious especially if they can keep these attritable. I like the new push the US is really taking long strides on advanced drone capabilities. Make me wonder why they didn't do it sooner? were contractors and the Pentagon stuck in their old ways? was there just no real perceived need or what. Still, all these new drone capabiltiies makes me thing the US is real serious about Operation "Hellscape" against China.
Strong America is fine if it has a decent government. It appears currently to be run by a. Criminal enterprise so right now the world needs it to back off and know it’s new place in the world….you ain’t top dog anymore Toto!
The vehicle was created by a small startup company which was trying to develop an extremely long range UAV that would be as simple and inexpensive as possible. Hence "vanilla" unmanned systems. The idea was to have something for NASA, at 1/100 of the cost of existing large UAVs, but which would still be capable of launching from the US, flying to the South Pole, doing atmospheric research for a few days and then returning back to the launch point to refuel.
@@cogoid This aircraft is essentially a powered glider. It is constructed so that the wings, tailplane etc can be easily removed and and stowed in a road towable trailer, behind the launch vehicle. In addition it can be launch by which and the engine started in flight. There are other launch options to enable it to be launch from small ships.
Can it land? Is each one fundamentally a kamikaze-drone? It doesn't look like it's meant to be re-used, which is probably why it doesn't have an onboard engine starter.
Maybe they only open when its time to land and have yo be launched liek this, ooor a huge net will catch them as they aproch back to base at a very slow flying speed
Coupled with AI and a simple updated gps or map reading technology and they will be unstoppable at least until the radar guided anti drone drone tech gets going.its an arms race it will happen.
I presume it has an internal compartment to carry the payload. The dimensions of the hold will be a limiting factor on what it can deploy. I would expect that this drone has a line-of-sight communications package that enables it to act as a communications hub for any intelligent payload.
At 0:10 you can see a landing wheel. The prop blades fold back, as you can see at 0:15. There was footage somewhere earlier, showing the actual landings. Actually, there is a recent video on the vendor's channel.
In a world where war is taken for granted, the average man does not question the mythological/political system that produces the development of increasingly destructive weapons systems. Perhaps he recognizes that the use of these weapons would likely mean the destruction of himself, his society, and perhaps the human race. But his thinking is based on the premise that military force is essential for the survival of what he has been led to believe is "his" tribe, "his" ethnicity, and he cannot conceive of other alternatives. So he can only praise every advancement in weaponry and hope that somehow those weapons will never be used.
In a pathetic hearing on CSPAN top military officials asked for more drone funding and renounced spending on 10 aircraft carriers and old fashion destroyers. Afterwards the members of congress talked as if there was no presentation at all. Some MC from Missouri said 40% of jobs in his district came from heavy ship parts manufacturing and the discussion was about jobs and money to districts. We cannot have a functioning military with poor states forcing the military to be a jobs program.
Some "stuff" isn't advertised - this is a common-or-garden program being developed by everyone - the real secret isn't revealed: how well do the on board micro-drones interact with each other & with other platforms. The AI & comms are the real hidden magic.
The public gets cranky if they don't see the results of their tax money. Plus something like this isn't exotic enough to require a great deal of secrecy.
To the American people: This technology has the ability to also act as law enforcement in our country. Can you imagine an authoritarian government using a drone swarm to rule our country with an iron fist? There would be enough drones to passify the entire US population. That would be like every man, woman, and child having their own personal police officer. This couldn't get more dystopian if they tried. This technology, specifically AI and drones, is incompatible with freedom.
it glides using air currents and the speed it already have after turning off the engines, and turning them on again when losing altitude, over and over, to save fuel
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27000 Km range drone is crazy
No ruzzian oil refinery is safe.
These numbers might be taken with a pinch of salt.
@@Kaoniao US DoD understates numbers more often than not.
@@TheHk1966 Or any civilian, anywhere.....
That drone's range is basically limited to satellite connectivity. Not fuel. It probably glides with engine off most of the time.
The battlefield of tomorrow definitely looks like a horror film.
We will be standing in lines dressed in either blue or red sooner than you think.
Hawker Hunters in the background, cool!
yes so cool! i love weapons of war with no accountability!
Hawker Sub Hunters in background.
Carrier has arrived!
EN TARO ADUN
0:43 What's with the two Hawker Hunters in the back? Why're they on Anderson AFB, Guam?
ATAC operates them under contract for the DoN as adversary aircraft. They provide "red air" support, along with their Kfirs, for operational units.
This is cos the Hunters go as slow as a drone so can simulate one nowadays.
@@DuncanInnes1956 The Hunter has quiet a high stall speed, about 130mph. About the top speed of a MQ-1
What about the Hawk Tuwa hunters? Asking for a friend
Great to see they are still flying. Hopefully they can stay airworthy for air shows once retired from here.
Drone Carrier has arrived.
hardly a carrier, more like a school bus.
@@nolga3569 starcraft reference went over your head i guess :)
search youtube for "carrier has arrived" and enjoy
15,000 nautical miles!?! That's 17261 miles/27,780 kilometers! That's over half of the circumference of the Earth.
It can be launched anywhere and hit any target in the world (with a little over 2000 miles to spare!)
It will take 10 days to get there tho, efficieny has its disadvantages. It's effectively like a motorized glider that's as fast as an average car traveling on highway. The enemy will most definitely know they are coming.
Ofc, if you can have tens of thousands of these, it would kinda stop mattering they are slow and that the enemy knows. Just send them in waves, have some sacrificial ones at the front that deploys a few dozen kill drones each and be shot down. Those will go for the ground to air defense systems and open up the way for more to enter the enemy airspace, rinse repeat. And if you couple the arrival with your own jets to handle the enemy jets, it's basicaly game over.
Average soldier costs 50k dollars to train, and 100k to maintain each year, so imagine. Spread that cost over a decade, and you could have one of these drones instead of a soldier on standby. Which one would be more effective in war in terms of killing power? And if they could be made even cheaper with mass production, you might as well not have soldiers...
@@N0xietyYeah but if you automate the uneventful parts of the journey, you can just consistently launch them all day, every day. Then 10 days later just have operators guiding endless strikes.
@@N0xietyalso from all sides if you went both directions around the globe.
Thats not good enough. I want to be able to hit myself by going around the globe.
i guess the advantage is more the loitering time, rather than the "distance"
Maybe these are what’s flying around in NJ
10 days? WoW
I will look at white van man with a strimmer differently from now on.
Good video. Lots of info, not overly long. Thanks! 🙏
In this American company gets a great deal on a Toyota pickup truck to fly the thing that's freaking typical
So this drone can strike a target anywhere in the world... and it launches from a pickup truck ?
This ain't Vanilla at all, it's as spicy as it gets ! Real "wings of death"
looks like we have early MQ-99s here in real life…
Things are getting scary
Thank you
Swarm drones are the future. They will be simliar to the small FPV drones we see today but will be A.I controlled and not abled to be jammed. They will work in teams and swarms similar to what we see in a flock on birds in flight.
Sounds like a Briggs and Stratton
The truck mounted launch is actually super clever!
Nice look looks vary nice
Swarms of drones 😳. US be like I see your drones and raise you this hell in the sky
Moscow seems a perfect testing site currently..... I am sure Ukraine will assist in its testing.
No kidding.. they could launch that bad boy from Lviv and hit Vladivostok.
😂
And then kiyv is gone. Usa and ukr jeшish government shurely wants to fight to the last ukrainian.
For that range it has to be able to do atleast a speed of 115 km/h over 10 days
Finally got to see the drone shown in interstellar.
AI, Face-recognition, autonomous, loitering ...etc. Basically SKYNET. Just tell them to find enemy tanks and troops then sit back and read a book.
Read a book on how to turn them off again 😆
Face recognition isn't really viable from the air, not without some seriously expensive optics at least. Automatic Target Recognition for vehicles has been around for ages though.
@@ToastyMozartI'm sure satellites with the resolution can mark targets for them
You don't need skynet for that. The ingredient technologies already exist.
@@Cryosxify Satellites can see people, but not with enough resolution to identify faces. Humans can kind of maybe identity people by satellite imagery with various extra contextual clues, but I don't think an autonomous system could do it yet.
Any cooler and we’d call it “Vanilla Ice!”
i like how they start it with a hundred thousand dollar (probably) weed whacker
how dose it land?
Those Hawker Hunters still operational??
Long endurance ,big benefit in the pacific Some advances in shore defence and monitoring more a UK priority ? Lack of inshore PT boats makes Drones a viable option to fill the gaps ,but still need manned craft to intercept any flagged up problems?
The Brits busy calling themselves the best in everything, while we close our mouths and just keep innovating. Maybe, in the next twenty-five years, we'll get to see their Tempest, with 50 year old technology. Yeah, Broke Britain. Hahahaha.
I’d be concerned that a noisy and slow drone like that would never be in the air in a battlefield situation for longer than @0 minutes as it’d be a sitting duck for even a shot from a child’s BB Gun.
Was that hawker hunters I saw in the background?
Why do they have such a nice name 😂
Wonder if they could drop flares and chaf, the metal strips. To manipulate the radar picture with many decoys.
I am curious what the use case for this would be. Yes, long range is great, but it's slow and can easily be taken out by SAM. I could see these being useful for surveillance in areas where the enemy does not have air defense or air supremacy but beyond that I struggle to find good use cases. Of course I am no general...
Very techy.
Whomever can overmatch on unmanned systems, control and intelligence is gonna lose way less personnel.
Learning something it looks just getting it flowing might be and look like a pain
how does it land
Wow, 10 days of endurance is serious IRS especially if they makes thousands that can drop Micro Drones? What is that about? The Recon ability alone is serious especially if they can keep these attritable. I like the new push the US is really taking long strides on advanced drone capabilities. Make me wonder why they didn't do it sooner? were contractors and the Pentagon stuck in their old ways? was there just no real perceived need or what. Still, all these new drone capabiltiies makes me thing the US is real serious about Operation "Hellscape" against China.
The world need a strong america.
For us to continue enjoying the peace and stability we have in the world, America need to me much stronger than Russia and China combined.
Strong America is fine if it has a decent government. It appears currently to be run by a. Criminal enterprise so right now the world needs it to back off and know it’s new place in the world….you ain’t top dog anymore Toto!
yay imperialism
Why call it the Vanilla? Was Chocolate, Mint Choc Chip or Raspberry taken?
The vehicle was created by a small startup company which was trying to develop an extremely long range UAV that would be as simple and inexpensive as possible. Hence "vanilla" unmanned systems. The idea was to have something for NASA, at 1/100 of the cost of existing large UAVs, but which would still be capable of launching from the US, flying to the South Pole, doing atmospheric research for a few days and then returning back to the launch point to refuel.
@@cogoid This aircraft is essentially a powered glider. It is constructed so that the wings, tailplane etc can be easily removed and and stowed in a road towable trailer, behind the launch vehicle. In addition it can be launch by which and the engine started in flight. There are other launch options to enable it to be launch from small ships.
I’m more excited about the hawker hunters on the pan there ❤
So CoD BO2, set in 2025, predicted it all :D
Uss Obama not here tho
Not long before your local police department acquires it to use against it's citizens.
Nice try, Ivan.
Bro we get the real life arsenal bird before gta 6
I've seen a Z wing wing series with solar on its wings doing more.
More then 10 days flying? What? Aha
Oh you guys are so.
The drone war has begun...
This cool but the stuff we will see when WW3 “officially” break out is gonna be insane lol
Going to need some sources on that range and loiter time spec. That seems like a mistake
Yeah there is no way in that config its 10 day duration. With some novel power sources or A2A fuel but not as shown.
Imagine 40 killer drones dropped on your position...
Swarm? That's overkill in cod 😂 can't imagine in real life
Very good. If the American Army wants to maintain its lead, it must lead in this field as well!
And on the other hand they vote for Trump.
Salute from the land of true Aryan, Iran! 🫡
Can it land? Is each one fundamentally a kamikaze-drone? It doesn't look like it's meant to be re-used, which is probably why it doesn't have an onboard engine starter.
Maybe they only open when its time to land and have yo be launched liek this, ooor a huge net will catch them as they aproch back to base at a very slow flying speed
Coupled with AI and a simple updated gps or map reading technology and they will be unstoppable at least until the radar guided anti drone drone tech gets going.its an arms race it will happen.
It has been started like a formula one car, sounds like a lawn mower.
wait till you see the 1 million price tag for they “swarm” drone
Typical glider design, sounds like it runs on a 2 stroke gasser 😮
40 Microdrones per unit?? Dear lord have mercy
We're almost at Zero Dawn
Never enough for the MiC...
I presume it has an internal compartment to carry the payload. The dimensions of the hold will be a limiting factor on what it can deploy. I would expect that this drone has a line-of-sight communications package that enables it to act as a communications hub for any intelligent payload.
I wonder what the Micro drones are for or what they can do. I guess the possible uses are endless for such a platform with such endurance.
They'll probably be used just like the Perdix micro drone swarm
@@rickjames18 depends how micro you're going - I guess a swarm could fly up peoples nose and set off a charge.
A flying dolphin!
Need these deployed from subs that can autoload them onto a slingshot on top of the sub
How will these "swarms" avoid conflict with civil aviation?
I wonder if this will ever be used against civili....never mind.
How does this thing land? It doesnt look like it has a landing gear plus the propeller at the back is too wide
💥 as it impacts?
At 0:10 you can see a landing wheel. The prop blades fold back, as you can see at 0:15. There was footage somewhere earlier, showing the actual landings. Actually, there is a recent video on the vendor's channel.
@@cogoid Oh I see, thanks man!
Landing gear aside, at this scale it'd be easy enough to just pack a parachute in there. Or have it land back on the truck if they want to be fancy.
10 days in no Air defense areas!!
In a world where war is taken for granted, the average man does not question the mythological/political system that produces the development of increasingly destructive weapons systems. Perhaps he recognizes that the use of these weapons would likely mean the destruction of himself, his society, and perhaps the human race. But his thinking is based on the premise that military force is essential for the survival of what he has been led to believe is "his" tribe, "his" ethnicity, and he cannot conceive of other alternatives. So he can only praise every advancement in weaponry and hope that somehow those weapons will never be used.
I like the WW2 engine starter "CONTACT!!" 😜
It's the same starter we use on our R/C Planes.
Calling something Vanilla for a kill system is a bit silly. Call it something like Sucker puncher or something.
Test them on the rebels in the congo 🇨🇩
In a pathetic hearing on CSPAN top military officials asked for more drone funding and renounced spending on 10 aircraft carriers and old fashion destroyers. Afterwards the members of congress talked as if there was no presentation at all. Some MC from Missouri said 40% of jobs in his district came from heavy ship parts manufacturing and the discussion was about jobs and money to districts. We cannot have a functioning military with poor states forcing the military to be a jobs program.
Saves humans a lot of boring patrol flights
China: copy copy copy copy copy
God bless the allies
we have arsenal bird at home XD
Unfortunately im building one too.
And the propellor is started with a weed wacker
Air holds and is no differentiate the WATERS
Vannila ultra...
Welcome to Bangladesh : date - 05/08/2024
😏😉
Why even bother showing the design to the public
10 days of flight is scary, it becomes more scary when it eqiupped with bombs.👺👺👹
Great and all that but why advertise our stuff
Some "stuff" isn't advertised - this is a common-or-garden program being developed by everyone - the real secret isn't revealed: how well do the on board micro-drones interact with each other & with other platforms. The AI & comms are the real hidden magic.
The public gets cranky if they don't see the results of their tax money. Plus something like this isn't exotic enough to require a great deal of secrecy.
If it's being advertised, they already have something being tested to replace it already
You don't need a truck and multiple operators with a front prop. Oh well. Want to be cool
To the American people: This technology has the ability to also act as law enforcement in our country. Can you imagine an authoritarian government using a drone swarm to rule our country with an iron fist? There would be enough drones to passify the entire US population. That would be like every man, woman, and child having their own personal police officer. This couldn't get more dystopian if they tried. This technology, specifically AI and drones, is incompatible with freedom.
Yeah, China technically does this way more often than any others
especially given the SCOTUS decision about presidential immunity from criminal prosecution.
10 days wtf
Begun the Drone War has
Operated by batteries from Amprius
hello
10 days. That's a stupid number.... How the hell is that even possible.
I guess it mostly glides around like an albatross and has a good battery.
@ninjafruitchilled I believe it's a hybrid. I heard it start and the guy spun the prop with a starter. Be interesting to tale one apart.
@@tireballastserviceofflorid7771 oh? I just assumed it was electric and the starter was because the motor is low torque for efficiency or something.
No way that thing can stay airborne for 10 days.
Yes way.
Internal combustion engine and there can't be that much room for fuel.
it glides using air currents and the speed it already have after turning off the engines, and turning them on again when losing altitude, over and over, to save fuel
@@ultimatepepsi wrong.
Just add some AI so skynet can go do its thing.
1:28 now that new Toyota Tacoma is def. ASS heavy while on the go.
Swarm wars.
When I saw the wings flex, I was really hoping for an ornithopter!
Flying drone aircraft carrier!
Sounds like another way to waste our tax dollars. Raytheon & Lockheed Execs are clinking the champagne with their bud, Lloyd Raytheon.