The Canadian start-up reveals balloon launcher for long-haul strike | News

A Canadian start-up offers a new type of solution for the problem of how to start large volumes of long-distance precision ammunition via balloon.

According to the land zones in Alberta, it has completed the development and flight test of a product that calls the Eagle Advanced Nay Last Delivery System, a low view that comes from stratospheric heights via balloon to provide fatal effects.

The system is located on the variable-eagle-ultrweed air vehicle, which describes land zones as a glider system, which can wear non-specified payloads “hundreds of kilometers” with satellite-supported navigation system such as GPS.

In particular, according to landing zones, the weapon system could work with full autonomy or a so -called “man in the loop”.

“Its variable wing profile, the flights from overshade to lying speeds as well as the ability to wear different payloads and enable them in execution in the execution [GPS] Competed environments positions Eagle as a player for the game for military operations worldwide, ”said Spence Fraser, founder and managing director of Landing Zones, in January.

It is unclear how an unpomated vehicle would ever achieve excessive speeds or whether the design should be treated as unnecessary. The landing area did not answer a request for further explanations.

In an operation concept for the unusual weapon system, several eagle vehicles would be transmitted via balloon of up to 100,000 feet. At this point you would be the destination and use the variable geometry wing for the flight.

A concept video published by Fraser in 2023 shows a flight of four eagles who work together to attack a naval ship at sea.

After two of the drones have fallen out of the mother ship balloon, use an electronic payload for electronic warfare on board to simulate the signature of larger ammunition that are observed in a conventional attack vector.

Regardless of this, two other eagles, which lie on 30,000 feet, carry out a diving bomber approach in the Second World War on the ship, withdrawing their sliding wings and diving directly towards the deck in an almost vertical angle.

Landing zones argues that the small size of the design, the shape of the design and the high operating height make less detectable due to modern air defendants and improves survival ability to alternatives.

If the unorthodox delivery method has proven to be the pile of a sliding weapon at extreme heights, the considerable advantage of maintaining the patient situation of an enemy, which is now considered essential for the survival of the battlefield in the period of a long -term precision weapon.