Indirect Fires Modernization Project - C3/M777 Replacement

[Brad Sallows]

Pretty soon you are going to see mainstream munitions optimized for drone drops and carry. They won't have to survive the detonation and sudden acceleration, so more weight to filler and fragmentation.

Ie. grenades and plain ordinary air-delivered bombs.

Not sure a novel category is needed. But as you say, there probably aren't many unguided grenades/bombs designed to deliver simple natures other than HE, yet.

 

[Retired AF Guy]

TWZ also has an article focusing on the MALET Program:

This Is The Army's New MALET Kit That Turns Mortars Into Drone-Dropped Weapons

The clip-on kit is designed to give soldiers a convenient way to rapidly turn existing mortars into small bombs for drones.

www.twz.com

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Ie. grenades and plain ordinary air-delivered bombs.

Not sure a novel category is needed. But as you say, there probably aren't many unguided grenades/bombs designed to deliver simple natures other than HE, yet.

HEAT and HESH air drop might become a thing. I suspect that the RPG warheads lend themselves well to kamikaze FPV drones, with little modification.