> *Ukrainian engineers have developed and launched the Cobra fixed-wing “kamikaze” drone manufacturing, with a 300 km operational range and 15 kg payload capacity, using riveted steel construction for rapid and affordable production.*
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> The drone has a metal body of riveted steel, which simplifies and cheapens the UAV production. Cobra’s production cost is about $2,000 per unit, according to the designers. Meanwhile, a team of ten workers can manufacture one drone from scratch in three hours.
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> At the same time, the drone’s design can be changed in a few days to give it other sizes, shapes, or patterns.
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> > “[Using] carbon fiber means [using] very expensive matrixes and a very slow process, as there’s a glue involved that takes 24 hours to cure. If you use more traditional materials like sheet steel or aluminium, you could build 10 planes a day, and it would cost five times less,” says Vitalii Bryzhalov, Cobra’s design engineer.
Nice! Cost effective orc repellant!
Let their air defense see them if ten people can build 4 in a day and that would go up if you streamline the process. The send in and maybe get some kind of radar detection and steer the swarm towards the air defense systems, either they exhaust missiles or blow up the radars.
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> *Ukrainian engineers have developed and launched the Cobra fixed-wing “kamikaze” drone manufacturing, with a 300 km operational range and 15 kg payload capacity, using riveted steel construction for rapid and affordable production.*
>
> […]
>
> The drone has a metal body of riveted steel, which simplifies and cheapens the UAV production. Cobra’s production cost is about $2,000 per unit, according to the designers. Meanwhile, a team of ten workers can manufacture one drone from scratch in three hours.
>
> At the same time, the drone’s design can be changed in a few days to give it other sizes, shapes, or patterns.
>
> > “[Using] carbon fiber means [using] very expensive matrixes and a very slow process, as there’s a glue involved that takes 24 hours to cure. If you use more traditional materials like sheet steel or aluminium, you could build 10 planes a day, and it would cost five times less,” says Vitalii Bryzhalov, Cobra’s design engineer.
Nice! Cost effective orc repellant!
Let their air defense see them if ten people can build 4 in a day and that would go up if you streamline the process. The send in and maybe get some kind of radar detection and steer the swarm towards the air defense systems, either they exhaust missiles or blow up the radars.