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The military conflict in Ukraine has shown a great importance and high efficiency in modern warfare, unmanned aerial vehicles and class. At the same time, it became apparent that to shoot down drones, especially small, existing defenses are quite difficult and very expensive. It seems that the solution to the problem of the destruction of the drone small size found in the us defense company Grumman Corporation.
The representative told the magazine National Defense about the successful testing of high-explosive ammo dual-purpose 30x133 mm M230LF Bushmaster machine gun. The munition is equipped with a small sensor that detects drones, then there is an explosion, and the drone gets damaged due to shrapnel, but not a direct hit.
The company keeps in secret, how does a new weapon, but according to the representative of Northrop Grumman, the wireless sensor inside each shell is based on sensing technology, "which has existed for several decades." Currently, new rounds have already begun to enter service with the US army.
In addition to the high capture efficiency in the fight against drones, small size, new ammunition, allegedly, is unique in that its cost is much less than other systems for the destruction of the UAV. For automatic targeting, a special program TEACHER, but as said the representative of the developer cartridge and the gun M230LF Bushmaster can work with any guidance system.
The new warhead has proven to be highly effective in the destruction of single targets, but the guidance system is not yet able to efficiently work on a large cluster of UAVs. Currently the developers are trying to solve the issue.
— said the representative arms company.
