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Indirect Fires Modernization Project - C3/M777 Replacement

Colin Parkinson said:
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.
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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.
 
Brad Sallows said:
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.
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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.
 
Denel increased the lethality of 105 HE rounds by recreating the old Shrapnel shell and packing the shell full of tungsten pellets. Much like the GMRLS rounds.

How are we progressing with 3D printing of shell cases and the explosive filling so that lethal pellets can be added?
 
Kirkhill said:
Denel increased the lethality of 105 HE rounds by recreating the old Shrapnel shell and packing the shell full of tungsten pellets. Much like the GMRLS rounds.

How are we progressing with 3D printing of shell cases and the explosive filling so that lethal pellets can be added?
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Why would you want to 3D print a casing? In what way would that be an improvement over stamped/extruded metal casings?
 
Colin Parkinson said:
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.
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I wouldn't be surprised.
Come to think of it wasn't the American bazooka originally designed around the 60 mm mortar round and the first drone dropped munition I ever saw was footage of and ISIS drone In Syria (I think ) that used (surprise ) a 60 mm mortar round.
What goes around comes around I guess .
I wonder how how it would be to build one around a pair of M 72s .....now where did I put that baling wire?

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