Anduril announces Roadrunner, jet-powered VTOL drone

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Post by drak0n1c » Fri, Dec 01, 2023, 5:04 AM UTC

Anduril announces Roadrunner, jet-powered VTOL drone
anduril.com

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Post by rootcage » Fri, Dec 01, 2023, 5:40 AM UTC

ATM the biggest problem for LRAD is cost, you fire a $12K Patriot missile to intercept what is either a $40 million jet or a $300 drone. This is revolutionary.

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Post by brotchie » Fri, Dec 01, 2023, 5:41 AM UTC

Very cool, curious about $$$ vs competing platforms

The Hanger that houses the Roadrunner gives me "last thing you see as Q* becomes sentient and launches the killer drones" vibes.

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Post by rapsey » Fri, Dec 01, 2023, 5:43 AM UTC

rootcage wrote: post #2

ATM the biggest problem for LRAD is cost, you fire a $12K Patriot missile to intercept what is either a $40 million jet or a $300 drone. This is revolutionary.

Is this going to be less than $12K? Looks pretty expensive to me.

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Post by xyzzyz » Fri, Dec 01, 2023, 5:45 AM UTC

rootcage wrote: post #2

ATM the biggest problem for LRAD is cost, you fire a $12K Patriot missile to intercept what is either a $40 million jet or a $300 drone. This is revolutionary.

$12k Patriot missile? You are off a couple whole orders of magnitude.

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Post by ompaLompa » Fri, Dec 01, 2023, 5:45 AM UTC

rootcage wrote: post #2

ATM the biggest problem for LRAD is cost, you fire a $12K Patriot missile to intercept what is either a $40 million jet or a $300 drone. This is revolutionary.

A single patriot missile is estimated to cost $4 million USD

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/patriot-missile-ukraine-explain...

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Post by momojo » Fri, Dec 01, 2023, 5:45 AM UTC

rootcage wrote: post #2

ATM the biggest problem for LRAD is cost, you fire a $12K Patriot missile to intercept what is either a $40 million jet or a $300 drone. This is revolutionary.

Are you saying this fills a niche?

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Post by roamerz » Fri, Dec 01, 2023, 5:46 AM UTC

Weapons systems used to be pretty hush hush. I wonder how much of the information you see these days is propaganda designed to mislead.

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Post by richardw » Fri, Dec 01, 2023, 5:47 AM UTC

rootcage wrote: post #2

ATM the biggest problem for LRAD is cost, you fire a $12K Patriot missile to intercept what is either a $40 million jet or a $300 drone. This is revolutionary.

Aren’t they using guns to fight cheap drones, at least for cities in Ukraine ? Eg Gepard.

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Post by justrealist » Fri, Dec 01, 2023, 5:48 AM UTC

roamerz wrote: post #8

Weapons systems used to be pretty hush hush. I wonder how much of the information you see these days is propaganda designed to mislead.

It's only hush if it's already exclusively contracted to the DoD. If you're trying to sell a system, you were always hyping it up.