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A new concept weapon developed by the united states
After the russian-uu conflict
U. S. Aid to ukraine
What kind of weapon is this
What is its role on the battlefield
Can we change the rules of battle
Is the spring knife a drone or a patrol missile
A “s spring knife”, which resembles a small drone equipped with a small warhead, can perform a variety of operational tasks. Once the target of the attack is found, it becomes a small missile that ends up with the targeted target。
The spring knife is not a simple drone or a missile in the traditional sense. It is a small, low-cost, precision-guided, empty-face attack weapon。
As a single-force patrol attack weapon, the spring knife has a certain continuity and mobility capability, integrates the self-explosive combat unit with unmanned aerial vehicles, with surveillance, reconnaissance and strike capabilities, and features both drones and missiles. With the development of drone miniaturization, autonomy and tube-launching technology, single-man cruise missiles have emerged, one of which is the “spring knife”。
The spring knife was developed in 2008, the prototype was tested and evaluated in 2009, and in 2012 the united states military used it heavily for the war in afghanistan. The “spring knife” power, consisting of batteries, electric motors and double-leaf propellers, is low in noise, low in heat signals and difficult to detect and identify, and the system is capable of flying, tracking, participating in “non-linear targeting” and having precise impact。
According to the news agency, there are two models:
The “s spring knife” type 300, weighing only 2. 5 kg, can be placed in a soldier's tactical backpack with a range of 10 km and a continuous flight time of 15 minutes, with a speed of 100 km per hour, a force equivalent to 40 mm automatic grenades, and a fragmentation combat unit, which is used mainly against infantry。
The “spring knife” 600, with a mass of 23 kg and a range of 40 km, was renewed for 40 minutes, using armour-piercing combat units, to deal primarily with armoured targets, with a force equivalent to a “barrel gun” anti-tank missile。
The “spring knife” of both types will be ready for launch in 10 minutes. High-resolution video is transmitted in the air to ground control units, which are operated by operators on mobile terminals and search for targets. The spring knife, which can be used against tactically deep enemy targets, has become the formula for most u. S. Army motorized infantry units。
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What is the role of the battlefield
Why did the united states provide the army with a large amount of “spring knife”
According to the new york times, the u. S. Army believed that it would be very difficult for the u. S. To operate with skill and be easily destroyed by the russians if it supplied the mq-9 drone. The spring knife, which is a “unmanned aircraft in a backpack”, has the characteristics of a cruise attack against mobile targets such as russian military vehicles and is a “changer in the rules of the battlefield”。
Currently, the u. S. Has provided u. S.-u. S. S. 300, but u. S. Believes the number is too small and hopes that u. S.-u. S. Will provide 600。
According to russian military expert alexei leonkov, the “spring knife” type 300 is a clear weakness, mainly because of the low capacity of the battery, which cannot be left empty for long periods of time and the disruption of the control chain louis. Russian electronic warfare forces can destroy the communication channels of the model and turn it into a “headless fly”. In addition, the russian army has a wide range of anti-aircraft weapons available。
According to the military expert, patrol missiles can improve the long-range, stereo-precision capability of small units, such as attacking behind enemy convoys to disrupt enemy operational deployments, logistical supplies and troop movements. If used on a large scale in the russian-ukrainian conflict, cruise missiles such as “springblades” may drag the war to long-term “sawing”。
“this time the u. S. Army sent the `spring knife' patrol missile to ukraine, possibly also of a test nature, to test the value of the weapon through actual combat, and therefore its practical role on the battlefield remains to be seen further.”
The soviet conflict
Why isn't the drone the lead
Since the outbreak of the russian-uu conflict, there has been a general pattern of low-level and single-use equipment, despite the fact that the two sides have invested in a number of drones. The largest investment was also in locally modified civilian drones, mainly for battlefield reconnaissance and surveillance。
Seahawk-10 small drone
For example, the russian army used a small "seahawk-10" drone for tactical reconnaissance, and the ukrainian army introduced the turkish "tb-2" medium- and long-flight reconnaissance drone for reconnaissance and strike missions. By contrast, the overall performance of the russian drones was not significant and there had been no large-scale input into the integrated drones。
As a result of the soviet study of the evolution of drones in the 1980s, russia has not been active in advancing military drones for a long time. Until 2008, after the russian conflict, the russian federation realized the importance of drones and began to accelerate research and development and to launch invisible drones such as the "storch" hunter-b. The russian army has also piloted a new type of orion drone on the syrian battlefield。
Hunter-b invisible drone
However, in the russian-uu conflict, these drones were not put into operation on a large scale because of the limited amount of equipment and the fact that they were not technically mature。
We believe that the role and performance of drones in the russian-uu conflict is less prominent. “the small number of uavs and the limited role that can be played in the face of large-scale russian military attacks. The russian military inspection and the limited number of reconnaissance school-launched drones, combined with the fact that the army is mainly small, dispersed units, have limited opportunities to launch them.”
Patrol missiles
Or become a cheap alternative to drones
In military conflicts, the new concept of cross-border weapons, represented by “blueblades”, or becoming “low-cost alternatives” to conventional drones, appears on a large scale on the battlefield when the belligerents do not have the operational capability or equipment to detect a single drone at the medium-high end。
According to bear wei, a patrol missile like a “spring knife” would not be a complete substitute for the detection of a single drone and would be more suitable for small-scale raids requiring quick evacuation, as well as for the rapid release of mines and the slow pursuit of enemy forces. The russian-ukrainian conflict, on the other hand, has given more thought to the use of unmanned weapons in combat and to tactical methods of warfare。
“for example, which would be more cost-effective to detect single drones, cruise missiles and reconnaissance school drones with self-propelled artillery shells? Whether the cruise missiles are developed to a large range of power, are they used in separate groups, as in the case of anti-tank missiles, or are they developed towards miniaturization, capable of being deployed directly to the grass-roots forces as rocket-propelled grenade weapons? This is a question of the way forward.”
