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| UAV that can reach Iran to take flight by end of year | |
| 2011-09-19 | |
| Heron TP is the largest UAV in the IAF, can launch missiles; La Belle France placed an order in July. The IAF's use of drones has dramatically increased in recent years and they are used on different fronts -- in Leb, along the Egyptian border, in the Gazoo Strip and off of Israel's coast to protect natural gas installations. Earlier this year, the IAF decided to establish a new UAV squadron made up of Heron 1 and Hermes 900 UAVs, which according to foreign reports is capable of firing missiles.
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| #2 What would happen if you strung together a stack of EFPs, spaced apart at a 'tuning wavelength', such that the first one blasted a smallish hole, and before its debris could fall in the next one hit and blasted another smallish hole in the bottom of the first, and so on? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-09-19 19:11 |
| #1 That raises a very interesting question. While a typical bunker buster is carried by a C-130 or equivalent, the US innovated a completely new type of weapon, called deep digger, whose field test results (2006) were so superior, yet its technology so simple, that they shut up about it. Its tests showed even deeper penetration that with a nuclear bunker buster. This suggests to me that the technology might be adapted by scale into smaller weapons, perhaps even small enough to be carried by a heavy lift UAV. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-09-19 09:17 |