On the modern battlefield, large-scale real combat with hands-on swords has long been history.
One of the biggest international news in the New Year is that U.S. military drones have killed Iran ’s key figure, senior general Qassim. · Suleimani.
In the early morning of January 2, Suleimani and his entourage arrived at Baghdad International Airport in Iraq. In the airport cargo area, they were about to leave with the deputy commander of the Iranian-backed Iraqi militia organization. They did not expect to be ambushed by the drone. The missile blew up the two cars they were on the spot.
The commander is thousands of miles away. On the front is an MQ-9 Reaper drone, also known as “Death”, developed by General Atomic Energy.
MQ series of drones have a history of more than 20 years. The last well-known drone was MQ-1, also known as “Predator”, with a total system of up to 40 million U.S. dollars. Since 1995, he has participated in battles in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen. In September 2011, the U.S. Air Force National Guard changed some of the squadrons using F-16 fighter jets to use unmanned attack aircraft. In 2018, MQ-1 was officially retired.
In actual use, MQ-1 UAVs usually require one flight operator, two sensor operators, and missiles to complete the mission. This time killing Suleimani was the AGM-114 “Hellfire” missile,
United States combat drone arrays are quite mature. MQ-9 is better than MQ-1. It has 6 weapon suspensions. can can carry 1.7 tons of weapons and fly 3700 kilometers at 400 kilometers per hour. Reached 15 hours.
The United States established a special “Death” drone working group in 2007. MQ-9 has performed thousands of missions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Yemen. As of March 1, 2019, the total flying hours of the MQ-1B Predator and MQ-9 Reaper drones of the U.S. Air Force have exceeded 4 million hours. The United States also manipulated “Death” to perform multiple beheadings. The last time was the assassination of the Taliban leader Mansour in 2016. Two “fires of hell” killed Mansour on the spot. MQ-9 can be said to change the color of many people.
Iran also has its own drone array, including low-end foam self-explosive drones to military drones. The latter imitates that the United States does not carry weapons Stealth drone RQ-170.
On the modern battlefield, large-scale hand-to-hand combat with real swords has become history. Death is silent under the blessings of drones, the Internet, big data, and artificial intelligence, and scientific and technological capabilities will become the key to victory.
(picture from Wikipedia)