This drone-mounted RPG is terrifying
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2018
- The Belarusian military shared a video on May 27 showing a drone-mounted anti-tank rocket launcher being showcased for army officials.
The rocket launcher appears to be an RPG-26 Aglen, supported by a four-rotor rig.
The demonstration took place at the Losvido training ground in the country’s Vitebsk region on May 18, according to Defence Blog.
Video: Belarus Ministry of Defence via Storyful
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The age of the lethal drone, while still in its early stages of development, has possibilities that are pure nightmare fuel.
Loitering armed drones= this is already the reality. See Nagorno-Karabakh war. The drones used there to kill tanks, artillery and others are actually scaled up versions of drones designed to kill walking soldiers.
Enter the dark world of the short story "Murder swarm".
@@professortrog7742 welp Switchblade swarm is already here uhhh.....
Honestly some 4 year old with a parrot drone could down one of these things quadcopters don't do well against fishing line. On top of that it's Belarusian that techs even worse than the russians
Just wait until they develop AI for it, and call it........ Skynet 😉
The stuff I watch at 3am...
2:23 am for me rn
T-Retro S.M.L 3:44 am for me xD
1:52 am for me loooopl
2:50am...so close to 3am
T-Retro S.M.L I don’t remember asking.
The RPG mount seems particularly efficient. It uses the weapon itself as the drone framework. No added weight for mounts to hold the weapon and no weight expended on structure.
Another stupid russian thing, the bomb dropping ua comerciale drones, are much better in the field.
I'd be surprised to find out the Ukranians haven't already thought of/made these. They don't talk about all their weapons and tactics.
@@-108- why shuld they use this stupid thing.. when they have something 10 times better?!
@@turji Because you can never have enough weapons when fighting off Orcs!
@@turji they have used hobbist drones, those Chinese ones that anyone can buy, to drop grenades on the enemy, apart from many other handmade, improvised weapons
You can see that it is "well designed and customized": a drone on which they put a machine gun!
Considering the corruption it will cost $ 1 million
Considering how low the income is in Belarus, this is 10 times less money "disappearing" than if this happened in the US.
If that kind of rpg uav was built in USA the program would cost billions
@@AAAAAA-tj1nq the difference is US stuff is overpriced, but works. Post-soviet stuff is overpriced and barely works.
@@sananguliyev4940 russia is the first country with operational hypersonic cruise missile that strike ukrainian military targets. works wonderfully. in ur face
@@AAAAAA-tj1nq they have one technology ahead of others. Let's see when the chinese and the west rolls out their versions, then we'll see if this was a rushed crap, or decent tech.
Imagine being setup to kill someone and you see a swarm of rpg drones appear
.... insurgency ... I wish it was only in the game...
Just 10 rpg drones can crash the game
That'd be a BIG uh oh
MINIGUN DRONE SWARM WITH ME
@ThomasG10mtn what if it's controlled via satellite and the user is actually 50km away?
Looks like 20mm anti-aircraft guns will make a comeback.
Lol good luck hitting drones with 20mms, those things were designed to engage airplane sized targets
@@crnivitez4995 yea and drones are an order of magnitude cheaper than any existing piloted aircraft used in combat so think 40 drones for every one manned vehicle.
**laughs in wirbelwind**
Drones are way smaller than a airplane....and can out manuver them easily....Good Luck!!!!!!
Duel mounted mg42s on a standing tripod...
"ENEMY HUNTER KILLER DRONE INCOMING!"
"Gryphon ready for depliyment"
Lol
This is actually a good idea imagine a tank that cost millions of dollars getting destroyed by a drone with an atgm that only costs thousands of dollars and in 10 or 20 years drones would probably be better than they are today which would make this idea more practical and if they start getting shot at they could hide behind buildings or inside buildings in an urban environment and can be great for recon or be used against infantry if they are fitted with a heavy or light machine gun.
Russians always making cheap and simple weapons that work stupidly well, like Katyushas
Your evil Esau
@@RealJudah144 actually chuckled
Damm you predicted the ruso Ukrainian war
But how to reload you Mag 🤣🤣🤣
Still amazing to me to watch basically a toy turned into a wildly effective weapon. There are many different things this war is becoming known for, but the contribution of drones has truly changed the face of war forever. I can only imagine how deep nations are going to invest in drone tech, now that we have a weapon that can be safely used without endangering it's user.
Theres absolutely no shot this thing is effective, besides the fact the copters probably can't handle the initial firing and recovery, it's a 1 shot use and relatively large and easy to shoot down. Range has got to be a problem as well as this is a should fire unguided AT missile.
shoulder fired*
We need RC toys with C4 to destroy tank tracks.
Another stupid russian thing, the bomb dropping ua comerciale drones, are much better in the field.
@@dontkillme5332 RC-XD?
Government:Work from home
Russian soldiers:
hey it's belarusian
@@bayan5694 hey it's belaRUSSIAN 🤣
A teen: puts a gun on a drone
The news: *that illegal*
This:
The news: ok 👌
@craig rankine yes it was illigal
@@aestheticniro181 so you don’t get the joke
@craig rankine you don’t get the joke
USA is a joke
Nobody seems to be talking about the remote controlled turret, that thing looks so cool.
A camera with a trigger
Israel used a device like that to murder an iranian nuclear scientist
it would be cool if it had more ammo..
perfect for my compound
A RPG Drone! I love it.
brain no flame not boom boom
I know you gotta put flame to general look up factors the five star said no move
Welcome to the future my friend
Drones have been launching munitions this whole war mate
Will you also love it when the next school shooter decides to use a swarm of drones instead of a pistol?
“Belarus have attached a rocket launcher to a drone”
Hmm yes
Anti-aircraft laser beam would be the new generation weapon for every army and police force
Even just one of those green lasers to blind the thing while you shoot it down with birdshot.
The grenade drones are surprisingly affective. I'm not sure how well this would work
I wonder how accurate it could be, and if the drone can withstand the backblast of the rocket, maybe it would work better if the rocket launcher was positioned vertically rather than horizontally
Just slap plastic explosive on a drone, drive in into an ammo depot of the enemy at night and enjoy the fireworks 🎇
Yeah how would you aim the thing. Hope you dive and press the button at the right time. Wunderwaffe 😂
@@lorenzofalorni3961 yeah in the end that would be a much more effective solution...
@@lorenzofalorni3961 Well, hope everyone is alseep first.
Drone props are really loud
A great step backwards in UAV technology.
One question.
Having flown my friend's drone I can see one huge problem immediately. How do you stabilise the drone so that it doesn't move whilst tilting it to fire towards a ground target? The operator is going to have to direct the drone to attack from quite high and on a steady glide angle in order to target accurately which is very difficult to do.
I might have an answer but one that will not please Russia.
Replace the weapon with an NLAW or similar soft launch guided munition bearing in mind the destabilising effects on the drone whilst firing its payload and being able to target and fire remotely. A T-150 quadcopter with the ability to carry 68kg might be a good platform.
My thoughts exactly. It might look cool, but good luck aiming it at the correct angle.
@@GiedriusJ1 Stick an NLAW remotely operated on it and now we're talking. You could put 3 or 4 on a T-150 Quadcopter.
exactly. PLUS, think of recoil (or whatever the movement caused by the RPG firing is called). There is like 0% chance it will hit the intended target. This concept with UNGUIDED rpg is ridiculous.
The free fall grenades dropped from such a cheap drone are the only logical option that have a chance to hit anything
They demonstrated how it would fire maybe timing is everything
I was thinking, anything more than a point blank shot would be a tricky aim.
OH MY GAWD
I thought the shotgun drone was awesome but this.... wow, they've really outdone themselves.
Can’t wait for m60 drone to come out
this looks so silly it makes me laugh, like a meme weapon like everybody gangsta till the rpg drone starts comin.
It's actually p cool. Imagine you're pinned down by a machine gun nest in a town with concrete buildings. You just send out this bad boy with RPO-M/RShG-2 attached to it and it yeets the missile right in the window while you're in the cover.
Now THIS is something to be concerned about!
Imagine this flying near an airport and firing its rocket at a fully loaded airliner waiting in line for Takeoff clearance.
Yet 90% of the people in comments are positively excited for it because they played too much call of duty, got disconnected from reality, and can't comprehend what a threat to morality and humanity looks like and why they should be concerned. Idiots in these comments
This is nothing compared to the drones already in use
@@bardsamok9221 and they are a prime example of why we shouldn't use drones in the first place. Look how many bombs are dropped by the US in just a handful of years, look how many people they killed, alll just because they could and because it was so easy for them to do so
I am willing to bet large amounts of money that a gamer was behind this design.
Why is it funny seeing a drone with an AT launcher built around it?
I'm not saying it won't work, but I am saying without some kind of aim assist, this sounds like a real pain to aim, and expensive to miss with. I've played a fair bit of video games in my day and helicopters that have to aim on the go, on an angle and have only one shot? But hey, fire with impunity from complete safety, it's not the worst trade off.
OMG that is scary af
Haha it’s such a cute weapon! I’m sure this Soviet era bazooka, duct taped to a cheap, improvised drone is just the thing to scare NATO away and turn the war in favor of Belarus and Russias favor
Unfortunately this is only the beginning of Pandoras box of unmanned and autonomous weaponry
@@devinclements2313 buahahaha. This is what you call pandoras box? What a simple mind. Don't hurt yourself thinking too much.
@@devinclements2313 You realize stuff much MUCH better than this has existed for decades right? Nothing about this is scary
What a beautiful display of just how little recoil these things have.
Imagine you're pinned down by a machine gun nest in a town with concrete buildings. You just send out this bad boy with RPO-M/RShG-2 attached to it and it yeets the missile right in the window while you're in the cover.
And where do you intend on launching it from?
The drone batteries would die out within minutes after carrying that much weight, and the drone needs to be within radio range for you to control it, so you can't relly on a launch from far away.
Launching it from your position wouldn't make that much of a difference either, considering that you are pinned down, chances are that your drone is going to get shot at from the moment it starts to take off from your position.
And even if it doesn't get hit, it won't be stable enough to consistently hit your target.
The more practical solution woud be to call in an artillery strike, even a mortar would do it...
And if you really want a drone to do this job, a better option would be a fixed wing aircraft.
@@Lucasxd331 need big drones
@@quik478 a bigger platform will make it cost more. I could buy a cheap drone for 50 dollars, but a more powerful drone will cost around 20x more.
If this drone could fire a smaller projectile it would be more viable. Carry weight and size also matters, as you have a standard load for every soldier in the unit.
Or they could just use a grenade launcher...
@@Lucasxd331 facts, but those types of drones already exist, including scout and SIGINT omnicopters and even EOD drones, check the ROE's website
Question about reloading especially on the ar
its the other way around - they attached a drone to an rpg
Can’t think the accuracy on this will be that great..
Belarus soldier: So... will we spent money on drones or rocket launcher?
Belarus general: Yes)
we grow closer and closer to Ironman's Stark Industries Combat Drones.
These drones are still an easy target today, but imagine in the future invisible/camouflaged drones that can tear human flesh and tank metal alike in the blink of an eye.
Haha, this must be a joke. As a quad pilot this would be too difficult to aim as increased pitch angle equals forward momentum and speed.
Is it April 1st?
It's very effective so it must be groundhogs day!!!
So they basically reinvented the predator drone and then the remote machine gun.
"It even pulls the trigger".
LOL
I want to know the latency from the command to shoot and the actual shot.
The recoil will make impossible to hit any target with unguided RPG. No surprise the video shows RPG flying, but not hitting anything.
RPG 7 has almost no recoil
A weapon to surpass metal gear
I'm imagining the recoil from the RPG would send it spinning.
It is like the US LAW...it is recoilless. The drone would lose weight, and probably gain height on firing.
Kinda scuffed, its like when you put a claymores on a drone in CoD or Battlefield.
Drone suspension technology can handle recoil from large projectiles and automatic weapons. This is child's play nowadays. But still this is what's being used today in Ukraine. Throne together drones with grenades and rpgs. And guided by 18 year old gamers
I guess the counter to this would be setting up stronger anti drone hardware that can cover entire areas above ground forces. But that would mean that the side using such hardware would be signaling that they are in that area. So it really becomes a game of who has the fastest, undetectable, heavy weapon drone. Which drone operator is the most skilled and which drones of the commercial variety have the most range.
Basically the switchblade drone. I can see a scenario of anti drone drones being set like a mine into a low power state until it gets triggered by the sound of another drone flying above then flying to take it out. Maybe in a quick eject case/launchpad to protect from the elements and a secondary battery so it stays operational for a good duration of time. Maybe it could even lock onto the sound of other low flying targets and armored vehicles
I mean i think anyone could do that with fire works and a drone right?
As a civi drone owner, I can tell you that thing would last like 5mins before dying and falling out of the sky.
When launching recon drones and see the enemies then the drones with a launcher is used for eliminating heavy armoured units
5 min is more than enough for urban warfare.
Arknights: What using Magallan is like, except they reload.
Technically the truth as a arknights player and military enthuitiastic person
These armed drones is getting out of hand
"Mom can we get a drone"
Mom: we have a drone at home
The drone at home:
Not as scary as moms sandal
When stealth is optional:
next up, claymore roomba
Is that a servo pulling the trigger?
When you think about it, this is just a cheap way of producing a more primitive, less accurate, one shot, short range platform for delivery of anti-tank missiles. Much better to just have a UCAV with long range and multiple fire and forget missiles. Otherwise you get a heavy launch tube and still require all the motors and battery power. Easy to shoot down too.
Of course, as history and reality now show, the single biggest draw back to these systems is identical to the drawbacks all Russian weapons experience as well……Useless Nuts behind the controls
Flying to belarus now, getting me these drones 😁
What would make this better is if it was robust enough to be used multiple times. Or another relay drone high up to extend the range and spot for targets. All can actually done with off the shelf parts.
How action/reaction would work for this RGP?
The AK mount 🤣 Fricking legend
this is ridiculous, they don't show it being fired because aiming is a huge issue, and firing it the recoil will send this thing flying. Belarus military is little more than a home guard with ex-soviet gear. TOTALLY ineffective.
There is no recoil, dummy. RPGs are recoilless weapons, fired off the shoulder. Hence why you do not want to be standing behind the launcher. The Ukranians have proven that cheap home modified drones are perfectly capable of destroying expensive military hardware.
You could save on weight and space, if you just have only what's needed for the rocket to be launched. If that's electronically, they just need a signal after athourization, to fire. But, doing this would save you space and weight of the long tube.
Using the RPG lauch tube as the structural element and hanging rotors, battery and controls is ingenious.
· cost is only in the essential drone motors and gear.
· allows for rotor additions for heavier weapons
· very low cost makes it a disposable weapon...no need to hang around for recovery.
And the accuracy of this drone will be close to 5% out of 100%
Imagine a pro FPS gamer controls it
Drone does a 720° turn before enganging. Lol
I wonder how secure the source code for the firmware is on those drones. If it's anywhere near the level of Russia, then Ukraine is about to have a whole new arsenal of drones to use, provided by Belarus. How nice of them.
Truly a weapon to surpass Metal Gear
The only thing to improve this simple weapon is , random, evasive flight characteristics programmed into the flight path.. never fly a straight line when in a danger zone.
This is one of those moments in history when a new type of weapon is introduced to the battlefield drone warfare
like when tanks were introduced in ww1
@@avrocat80 yes exactly exactly that
These things have been around for a while. If this was truly something special, they would have already been using it in this war.
Right now in Ukraine they use drones to drop grenades but imagine what kind of damage drones will be doing in the future...
It's Pandora's box and you all are idiots for supporting/getting excited about this. Once this takes off no one will be able to drop them and everything terrorists so corrupt leaders will abuse these more than they would their own soldiers ready to die for them. They are 10x cheaper and 10x more efficient at taking human lives and you are a complete idiot if you think that is a good thing in anyway. You saw how many lives Russia is willing to take from both their own soldiers and innocent civilians of Ukraine, he is only backing out now because morale and resources are dwindling. Once has these these weapons those problems are not irrelevant and he can send endless onslaughts to anyone he wants and no one can stop them. Now thing about domestic terrorism? Remember that school shooting not too long ago? What happens when the next shooter isn't using a gun but blows up the school with one these. God you kids play too much call of duty and got too disconnected from reality to realize how truly horrifying this will be and you're even bigger idiots for praising this and getting excited about it. Shut up.
These days I think a lot less people are impressed by the Russian army. 🇺🇦
this is about the Belarusian army, not the Russian army - though they are allies
Looks like the next arms industry developments need to be reliable and easy to deploy counter drone weapons. This thing though looks like a rough prototype that wouldn't be terribly accurate.
It looks like something a mad genius builds in their garage
Well get ready to be invaded with 15,000 russian ak drons
alright, who is here because of comment awards?
Obi wan: it's over. I have the high ground!
Anakin: wait for it...
Next project: main battle tank attached drone
This is so terrifying. Unless you have a rifle and you can easily shoot it down.
BO2 here we come
Why use this when you have the reaper and predator drones that are armed with autocannons and any assortment of missiles you can think of? Seems obsolete by design. You got a frilly drone and a disposable rocket launcher... why not fly a actual combat drone that can be flown around the world from your home base and loaded with as much weaponry as an attack helicopter.
I think its exactly because it disposable. Its cheap, can be carried by a squad, and seems perfect for urban warfare. Why use an expensive missile and fly a massive drone that consumes expensive fuel when you can just strap a rocket launcher on a small drone? Its an economy/logistics game, as wars tend to be. Ukraine is already using small drones to drop grenades and bombs
It’s like in GTA 5 hackers they can teleport on any point level height and location, and fire several rockets when you can only in two dimension roads.
Amazon of death
The future sucks
Next wars will be fought by 10+ hours/day gamers in 12vs12 drone battles lol
The stuff I watch whilst taking a sh** in the toilet
Ah yes, russian engineering at it's finest
*Belarussian
It's not an rpg, doesn't even fit the name rpg.
tayfun gürgen that’s an RPG, it just doesn’t look like the ones people are so used to seeing
@@israelicenturion2709 rpg stands for "handheld anti-tank rocket launcher". it's not handheld nor is it shooting at tanks.
@@tafana but is handled by a machine and I will shoot tanks
@@shazuzrqt7985 not "handled", "handheld" meaning you shoot it by holding in your hand.
@@tafana a robotic hand
NO, they did not attach an RPG to a drone. They made a drone out of the rocket launcher.
It would be better if they would just drop laser guided shaped charges on targets. The drone would not have to carry the extra weight of the launcher. Instead of of being a one shot wonder it could carry two rounds in case it misses.
This would be incredibly useful at Anti-Trump demonstrations!!!! MAGA 2020!!!!!
Shouldn't it be KAGA?
@@tentringer4065 No....Thats a Japanese Carrier numb nutz!
And that's why no one's like trump supporters
@@devinclements2313 Use proper English at least
Hell yeah bro
What we are seeing is the start of the drone battlefield .very soon there will be drone countermeasures everywhere. Drones are slow and fragile. They will be very easy to shoot done with weapons specifically to do so. A simple radar and relatively low powered laser would toast a drone
Good luck aiming that in any wind
They had these for a while. They are only getting better.
LOL "just get some duct tape and a walmart drone, we'll make a new weapon" - some high tech Belarus engineer
Oh oh now strap a drone kit to a hydra rocket pod!
It looks hilarious, it’s almost cute in a way.
Bro i thought Drone Flamethrower is crazy enought, but now this? holy shi-
Imagine if they made a multi rocket pod and mounted that to a drone
How can it be accurate if the recoil kicks in?
So, the era of air burst nets begin...
This is one of those disposable drones... because the backblast alone from firing that RurPurgh is going to throw the drone out of the sky.
It's a recoiless weapon. Basically a rocket in a hollow tube
I’d figure the drone would spin out from the pressure from the rpg, well sone
Looks sort of like a drone law rocket.
Yeah I’m not buying it, the recoil on those weapons would make it nearly impossible to aim
That's the most terrifying wasp I've ever seen