Watch the Navy's LOCUST launcher fire a swarm of drones
Watch the Navy's LOCUST launcher fire a swarm of drones
The Navy’s new LOCUST (Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology) launchers fire a swarm of drones that can jam enemy communications, and waste enemy resources by drawing fire. The launchers are capable of tube-launching 31 drones in just 40 seconds. The drones can fly autonomously but can also be controlled manually.
At just $15,000 a unit, the drones are expendable and can be used in dangerous situations. LOCUS is now in its development and testing phase.
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Ukraine wants to know can that be pulled by tractor??
Should be much cheap, usa over pricing shit.
15k cheap and expandable… tell me what is expensive now
Amazing drone
Terminators = drones + AI
You know what, democracy sure is stupid. Broadcasting this advanced military technology to the whole world for the enemy to study it π€·ββοΈ
The tube launched ones looks suspiciously like Switchblades. Just saying
Sky Net
release the kraken
We’re being fleeced by defense contractors. That rinky dink drone probably didn’t cost them a hundred dollars to make.
this could be good for ukraine . a terror against russian troops and generals
This video is confusing. There are clearly 2 types of drones here, both very different, but I can’t tell which one the various descriptions are referring to…
You know it’s bad when they use an acronym in an acronym
Doesn’t this remind you of Biblical verses from the Book of the Revelation of Jesus the Messiah.
"9 Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the [a]bottomless pit. 2 And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit. 3 Then out of the smoke LOCUSTS came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 4 THEY WERE COMMANDED not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5 And [b]they were NOT GIVE AUTHORITY to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. 6 In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them."
This is all coming into focus very clearly.
βdisposableβ
β$15kβ
this is why we donβt have free lunches in public schools
Hey, made another drones, called PLAGUE
It false guy and y’all falling for it just to get views
Another excellent display of your wasted tax dollars at work. There is absolutely no reason drones should need to be launched by such an unreasonably non-portable and overpriced deployment system. Drones of this size should be capable of vertical take off and landing without the need for this waste of space that screams βbomb me, Iβm importantβ on the battlefield. This concept needs to be thrown out and our tax dollars need refunded immediately. Pathetic.
And 15k per drone is also outrageous. I can get a group of people together that can build a more effective and better priced drone than this. Horrible design. Horrible concept. Horrible price. For 15k to be βexpendableβ you are essentially launching a US citizens car off a cliff each time a drone is deployed.
This is how life as we know it will end
It’s official. Bandai is a hacking team disguised as a game studio. How else can you explain why the drones look and deploy like the drones we see here.
Next you know, US new 6th gen fighter will be the ASF-X lol.
The Army has been using the switchblade 300 since 2011. Army use them in Afghanistan and Syria to Destroy ISIS
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.β – Revelation 9: 1-3 I love how the military uses such biblical names
Lol 15k for something that is destroyedβ¦.lol while your citizens build tent cities within every βmajorβ city
_"Careful, Enemy Swarm Activated"_
You showed x-8 drones lmao lies.
15k? Thats too high still. Send the manufacturing plant to Asia and see the price drops to 5k
When you realize the super scary, high-tech dystopian drones you’re seeing are from five years ago…
Well that’s business
Wonder how long it took them to acronymise it in a way that it kind of comes out as ‘LOCUST’ (but not really)
I’m 75 and retired, but I can remember when the military first began working on drones and UAV’s back in the 1980’s. I never dreamed they would advance to what we see today.
And I can’t even get a text back?!
Truth is if the government wants they could manufacture these suicide switchblade drones for less than 500 bucks and have them launched in swarms and be an amazing weapon…but it’s all about money and kickbacks the political powers get and generals get
Which country’s navy are you talking about?
And if you talking about the navy of your country then you can’t be a independent news outlet π
How do those pieces of styrofoam cost 15k
Today it’s the Navy’s drones, tomorrow your local police department’s drones. Can’t wait till one of these blows me up for speeding.
Imo looks like a bunch of bees leaving the hive?
Waste of time and money, cheap is probs a million bucks a pop..
gargantuan waste of money. while Americans live in tents the Republicans don’t like Biden’s budget. Not enough spent on the military. what a loser country you have there.
If they get these on the shelf at Walmart in time for the 2022 deer season in Wisconsin they could make a lot of money!!!
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Time to start making drone to drone killers
Locust of Revelation 9 are drones??
Low cost for $15k?
The enemy would just launch small shell which can generate an EMP which would knock out the drones.
The real drones used in the launcher are the Switchblade drones that we recently sent to Ukraine yet they probably donβt have this big launcher, just the mobile personal tube launchers!
Russian weapons are by far better than this rubbish…
Is this a defensive measure for a temporary counter attack? What’s its range? Battery time? Better to make kamikaze drones, which would just be a guided missile …? There was a 150kg lifting capable Norwegian drone being built a couple of years back that has a capability for small teams against tanks and shipping….
Oh shit that’s a Phoenix Ghost launcher!!!!
What is the Navy doing with US army drones and wasting money? Maybe we should just cut the bunch of the Navy by 80%? Or else maybe the Army should buy nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers as well? How pathetic and stupid is this? Stop Navy waste you scumbags
Why aren’t these being sent to Ukraine?