This Footage Of Jet-Powered Coyote Drones Obliterating Other Drones Is Incredible
Coyote doesn’t play around when it comes to blowing other drones to bits. The explosions alone make the video worth watching.
Coyote doesn’t play around when it comes to blowing other drones to bits. The explosions alone make the video worth watching.
Raytheon claims the Army used an unspecified “non-kinetic effector” aboard one of its Coyote drones to take down a swarm of ten hostile UAVs.
The Pentagon has quietly laid critical groundwork for fielding weaponized swarms of drones across all of the services.
Unmanned surface and underwater vehicles capable of deploying drone swarms in contested territory could be game-changing for the Navy.
The service says it wants better mobile mortars, but it could add loitering munitions to the mix in the future, too.
Raytheon’s Coyote is an inherently modular system that the United States has already tested as a possible weapon and a scientific tool.
Armed with loitering munitions, the craft would be able to discreetly strike at particular terrorists or any other high-value target from the sea.
The announcement comes after the service’s retired its 120mm infantry mortars and said it would buy new weapons firing precision guided ammunition.
Budget cuts have left it with only one unmanned Coyote drone and a worryingly unreliable business jet to monitor storms.
Raytheon designed Coyote with military applications in mind, but the little drone is proving to be especially useful at collecting data on hurricanes.