M712 Copperhead laser-guided artillery shell destroying Russian fortifications in the Kherson region.



by Physical-Cut-2334

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  5. Copperhead? This old thing from the 70/80ies?
    Still in service? Wow…

  7. Been saying for ages that mounting laser designators on the drones and using Copperheads is the solution

  8. was that the barracks that we saw a few days ago where it looked like 2 buildings but it was really just one

  9. Letting my dad know. He was artillery officer back in the day, helped in the testing of this round at Ft. Sill. This will cheer him up. He also ran the DOD testers in the 80’s on the Gustav Recoilless for the Rangers. Great stories.

  10. I propose we send 4K cameras to Ukraine, and a lot more explosives. A LOT. We need more entertainment.

  11. Well damn you got blown the fuck out that building are you OK bro ? He asks the torso

  12. Drones and laser target designators, what a wonderful combination.

  14. “Behold! Watch this fortification disappear! Ta-daaaa!”

  15. Too bad copperheads are expensive. They fill the gap between himars and 155mm shells

  18. I only now realised something about a potential shift in frontline targeting for weapons like this. For ages the best way to get accurate strikes was to have GPS guidance but due to the prevalence of GPS jamming in Ukraine that has been shown to be more of weakness than a strength in many cases. But with the ever increasing number of drones it’s more and more likely that drones with laser targeting can do the job that GPS guiding does while being harder to jam.

    I wonder if we’ll see armies move on from GPS guided artillery shells to laser guidance with drone spotters as a way to increase reliability in a EW heavy battlefield.

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