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https://www.instagram.com/p/BewQePKl8PV/
Above is the link for one story in Instagram. It is a story of the underwater scooter, what looks like Lockheed MQM-105 "Aquila” drone. The name of this thing is an Aquajet, and it could be equipped with GPS- or gyroscope systems, what allows it to drive to target automatically. This story gave me an idea, that the electric-powered drones can also use as the miniature submarines, what can make many missions under water. The ”Aquilas” uses propellers to move in the air, and those same things can also use to move the drone underwater. They can be used as the recon missions, but they can also track other missiles to the target. So those miniature recon planes would be very effective in many missions.
And of course, ”Aquilas” can equip with warheads. So they can use as the missiles. If ”Aquilas” would have RTG (Radio Thermal Generator) it can fly very long time, and that miniature drone can also use for strategic intelligence missions. Because it flying time would be extremely long, it can hang near some target like FSB:s headquarters, and record the sounds from that house by using laser microphones. And it could also drop the brand new bug-sized recon robots, what are CIA:s new weapon in the intelligence world.
Lockheed MQM-105 "Aquila" (Picture 2) |
The idea of that kind of hybrid aircraft is very old, and in 1930’s the Soviet Union planned to make the ”flying submarine” in the form of SB-2 bomber. The purpose of the aircraft, what has the capacity to submerge is that thing can slip underwater in the target, and then fly away after the strike. The B-2 had planned to have that capacity, but it was probably not accomplished. There is a rumor that some navies are testing midget submarines, what is about the jet fighter size vessels, what are equipped with torpedos or missiles. And NAVY-SEAL’s UDV:s Underwater Delivery Vehicles can equip with torpedos, Maverick and Harpoon missiles. That equipment would installed at the outer side of those vehicles. The torpedo would be behind the missile, and it could patrol at the seas without any notice about it.
There is also believed that the Trident or Tomahawk missiles were installed in very large torpedoes. Those torpedoes or very long enduring drones would patrol at the ocean by using the RTG-generators for produce the electric power for its motors, and when the order was given, those very small drones would rise their nose upwards and then the missiles motors would state. This is the new way of military technology, and the meaning of those small unmanned drones is to fill the US Trident fleet, and serve as the backup vehicles if the large submarines would be destroyed.
Source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_MQM-105_Aquila
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEAL_Delivery_Vehicle
Flying submarine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCqzvfPi5Kw
Picture 1
https://www.instagram.com/p/BewQePKl8PV/
Picture 2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_MQM-105_Aquila
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