Canada seeks to buy Long Range Precision Rockets (probably US MLRS or HIMARS)
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Ex-Formula 1 engineers built Britain’s new cheap cruise missile
A British engineering company that spent decades building Formula 1 race cars has announced it will start delivering a weapon that flies faster than 460 mph, carries a 300-kilogram (661-pound) payload, and never comes back from its mission. MGI Engineering,
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British low cost autonomous cruise missile (300 kg payload, 900 km at 750 kmh)
About 500,000 USD each vs a Storm Shadow or Tomahawk at 2 to 5 MUSD.
"TigerShark launches from a ground-based vehicle using rocket-assisted takeoff, a system that provides the initial thrust needed to get the drone airborne before its twin turbojet engines take over for sustained flight, allowing the weapon to be fired from mobile launchers rather than requiring a fixed launch site that would be vulnerable to enemy targeting."
"Inertial navigation tracks a vehicle’s position by continuously measuring its own acceleration and movement from a known starting point, a technique that works without any external signal but can drift off course over long distances if left uncorrected, while the terrain-mapping component compares what TigerShark’s sensors see below it against pre-loaded maps of the landscape to continuously verify and correct its position."
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Still too expensive. Call me again when they get them under $100,000. If we can build 1 to 2 ton cars at under $50,000 we should be able to produce something like this, at scale, the same way.
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Still too expensive. Call me again when they get them under $100,000. If we can build 1 to 2 ton cars at under $50,000 we should be able to produce something like this, at scale, the same way.
Agreed.
It can't be software or engineering that justifies the difference today. Everybody and his brother is punching out analogs.
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Ever visit Casa Loma in Toronto? It's amazing how much money there is in arms manufacturing that has little to do with the costs of R&D or the constituent parts or labour.
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Now just stretch your vision a bit and imagine a home grown nuclear device inserted into this domestic version of a deep-precision strike system somewhere down the line. Possible? Not possible? Whom am I to say.
Canada seeks to acquire long-range strike system widely used in Ukraine war
- Canada is moving to acquire a deep-precision strike system within the next 10 months by purchasing one from another country before developing a domestic version.
Now just stretch your vision a bit and imagine a home grown nuclear device inserted into this domestic version of a deep-precision strike system somewhere down the line. Possible? Not possible? Whom am I to say.
