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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Frisbee Of Death - It's Not Your Mother's Pie Plate

Having a bad day? If you see a couple of these coming your way, it'a going to get worse in a hurry, thanks to some Air Force funded weapons designers.
Modular Disc-Wing (Frisbee) Urban Cruise Munitions, also called Lethal Frisbee UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), are under development by Triton Systems at the behest of the US Air Force.
It is believed that the 3-D maneuverability of the Frisbee-UAV format will provide "revolutionary tactical access and lethality against hostiles hiding in upper story locations and/or defiladed behind obstacles to direct observation and fire."
According to the company: "The fuzing mode of the MEFP warheads will be controllable so as to provide a single large fragment (bunker-buster) or tailorable pattern of smaller fragments (unprotected infantry or light utility vehicles)."
MEFP (Multiple Explosively Formed Penetrator) warheads have been under development since the 1980's. The intent is to provide a technology allowing not just single munition loads, but many individual penetrators to attack light materiel area targets. Initial MEFP warhead concepts utilized a steel case, LX-14 explosive billet and a tantalum, iron or copper liner embossed or formed to produce the individual penetrators.
The design spec for the Lethal Frisbee UAVs requires that they may be directed wirelessly by an operator, or run in fully autonomous mode - "autonomous target classification routines." All flight data will be transmitted back to the controllers.
More from Technovelgy.com here. More cleverly designed implements of destruction on the drawing board and in use here.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow. Our military is very skillful when it comes to killing.

Anonymous said...

If them young republicans can shoot a shot gun straight , then it is nothing more than target practice.
What a joke this weapon is , like shooting clay pigeons.
Hell even a democrat could hit one of them.

Anonymous said...

Watch Dark Angel - this weapon is fetured.