{"id":3666,"date":"2019-03-01T09:32:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T12:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nachodelatorre.com.ar\/mosconi\/?p=3666"},"modified":"2019-03-01T09:32:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T12:32:37","slug":"un-gran-mercado-para-las-loitering-munitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=3666","title":{"rendered":"Un gran mercado para las “loitering munitions”"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/u>Las denominadas \u201cLoiterimg Munitions\u201d consisten b\u00e1sicamente en un Drone Aereo (UAV) que incluye una cabeza de guerra que contiene el sistema de guiado de una munici\u00f3n inteligente. Es decir que vuela como un UAV, pero act\u00faa en forma letal con la precisi\u00f3n de un misil. Por esa raz\u00f3n se las llama \u201cdrones kamikaze\u201d y las mismas han demostrado un excepcional desempe\u00f1o en los conflictos actuales, lo que abre un promisorio mercado para las empresas que las desarrollan.<\/p>\n

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\"\"JERUSALEM \u2014 UVision, a maker of loitering munitions, is seeking to expand its business in the U.S. with the launch of UVision USA, a fully owned subsidiary of UVision Air in Israel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The company has developed a family of lethal loitering munitions,\u00a0including the Hero-30<\/a>, the man-packable, canister-launched system. U.S.-based Raytheon signed an agreement in 2016 to work on the Hero-30.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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These munition types will be part of the future battlespace because they offer a lightweight precision-strike munition alongside the ability to reduce collateral damage, as there is a man in the loop at all times, according to UVision USA CEO Jim Truxel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Israel has been a pioneer in these kinds of munitions, often called\u00a0\u201csuicide\u201d or \u201ckamikaze\u201d drones<\/a>, including Elbit Systems\u2019 SkyStriker, IAI\u2019s Harop and Harpy, and Aeronautics\u2019 Orbiter 1K. These tend to consist of a UAV with a warhead so that the system can behave like a drone but strike a target like a cruise missile. The Hero family has warheads ranging from 0.5 kilograms to 30 kilograms (1.1 pounds to 66 pounds).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Militaries see applications for these weapons against air defense radar and other UAVs. The U.S. military has been looking at loitering munitions for more than a decade, but has struggled to integrate them. It fielded a munition called Switchblade in Afghanistan and Syria, and a munition called Coyote in 2018. Its ally the U.K. has explored using a loitering weapon called Fire Shadow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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UVision says its family of munitions brings flexible features to the battlefield. With a cruciform wing design, it has an abort capability that Truxel says can be activated up to the last seconds of impact.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s designed to take that G-force when you do an abort, so it can maneuver quickly and go back to the loiter, and that\u2019s unique.\u201d Truxel said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The UAV can be deployed by air, land or canister. It has real-time intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, and the smaller versions provide infantry or special forces with a way to launch the munition and fly it up to 30 kilometers, while seeing through a camera on the drone.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe nature of the battlespace is ever-changing, and the next battle may not be in an open area, or non-open area, with the need to strike different angles in different close confinements, so I see these types of munitions being widespread,\u201d Truxel said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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With the U.S. Defense Department focusing on technologies for the future battlefield, Truxel is hopeful. The new U.S.-based company will \u201cgreatly increase our ability to interact with partners and customers to meet the developing needs, and then long term we will eventually establish engineering, field service, simulation and manufacturing with U.S. employees, so it\u2019s not just strategic, it\u2019s also looking to support and getting closer to our customers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Truxel added that UVision is actively involved in American programs that are evaluating these munitions, but would not go into detail.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Fuente:\u00a0<\/strong>https:\/\/www.defensenews.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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