Rheinmetall Air Defence: Ahead - Highly effective, programmable ammunition
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A one-minute Rheinmetall promotional demo of Oerlikon Ahead air burst ammunition, which throws a cloud of sub-projectiles to destroy small air targets.
HN cites it as an example of programmable airburst ammunition used against drones and fast aircraft.
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3 comments from Hacker News
How do you "dodge" airburst ammunition? Can your drone instantaneously change direction at the speed of an explosion? What the hell am I reading here? [VIDEO] Edit: Look they even made a smaller system! [LINK]
There are some automated AA guns (Oerlikon or Rheinmetall IIRC) who lock with combination of radar and visual, or just one of those. No locking missiles, just good old ammunition and 21st century computing power. Well not precisely, every round is primed to detonate at exact altitude/flight duration. Put a hundred rounds in few seconds (so 5-10k projectiles) on the sky where the plane will be in 3 seconds, they will create basically impenetrable cloud and yes you can quite easily shoot down F35 flying during day flying low enough just by visual lock. One example: [VIDEO]
? You would not be able to hit a drone with a bullet. Statistics are against you. You use fancy AHEAD ammunition that disintegrates, and hopefully the drone with it. [LINK] Yet, the bursts fired are expensive as fuck. Much more expensive than the drone. Here you go: [VIDEO]