Terminal Autonomy, beforehand often known as One Means Aerospace, lately shared updates through their Twitter account concerning a profitable settlement made with Ukraine’s protection forces. A provide batch of the long-range kamikaze drone, AQ 400 Scythe, is alleged to have been supplied to the forces.
The corporate additionally highlighted its present progress with implementing serial manufacturing for this weapon class. The preliminary manufacturing fee for the AQ 400 Scythe drones stands at 100 models every month, with formidable plans to spice up this fee fivefold to 500 models. Nonetheless, the particular timeline for this manufacturing enlargement stays unclear.
It seems that Terminal Autonomy achieved its purpose of making an reasonably priced, mass-produced technique of destruction with the AQ 400 Scythe. This drone’s versatile capabilities may vastly improve the Ukrainian Protection Forces’ fight capabilities.
The AQ 400 Scythe boasts a formidable vary of 750 km, providing the potential of frequently focusing on websites inside the Russian Federation, given the proposed manufacturing scale of lots of of drones monthly.
The take-off weight for the drone stands at 100 kg, and a substantial half, 32 kg, constitutes the warhead [the entirety of the payload is 43 kg]. This weight could be elevated to 70 kg by limiting the flight vary. Considerably, this drone’s warhead matches, if not surpasses, the 40 kg payload carried by the Shahed [Geran-2] kamikaze drones at the moment utilized by Russia towards Ukraine.
Including to its spectacular options, the AQ 400 Scythe drone possesses a wingspan of two.3m and hits a cruising velocity of 144km/h. If geared up with a minimal warhead, it could possibly stay within the air for as much as 6.5 hours. Launching choices for the drone are versatile; it could possibly take off from a catapult or a runway. Alas, Terminal Autonomy didn’t give any extra particulars about this game-changing improvement.
There’s a chance that the AQ 400 Scythe has already seen motion on the battlefield. The current frequency of mass drone strikes on briefly occupied Crimea raises speculations about this. It’s additionally believable that different long-range UAVs within the service of the Protection Forces might be accountable for these assaults.
Terminal Autonomy beforehand teased that the AQ-400 Scythe kamikaze drone was a precursor despatched out earlier than a cost-effective cruise missile grew to become accessible. The missile’s projected vary stands at 1000 km and velocity at 350 km/h. Additional specs, together with the warhead kind, are but to be revealed. Apparently, the corporate has hinted that every unit of this formidable weapon may price underneath 100 thousand {dollars}.
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