US Army's new short-range reconnaissance system: RQ-28A small unmanned aerial vehicle
According to the US Theater Network on December 7, 2022, in early November, the US Army Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems Program Office delivered 30 RQ-28A drones to the 3rd Battalion of the 75th Cavalry Regiment in Benning, Georgia. The drone is produced by Skydio, a California based drone manufacturer, and the RQ-28A drone is the first active small quadcopter drone equipped by the US Army.
On the Syrian battlefield, small quadcopter civilian grade unmanned aerial vehicles have begun to emerge. Both government forces and Syrian anti-government armed groups have begun to use small quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicles on a large scale to collect battlefield intelligence, and even equipped them with simple bombing devices to act as small unmanned aerial vehicles and kill enemy targets in trench shelters.
In the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the Russian army explored and summarized a whole set of tactics of using Dajiang UAV to guide traditional artillery for fire attack, which completely solved the problems of artillery reconnaissance, target indication and fire correction of old artillery. When the UAV continuously hovers over the target area for adjustment, the old barrel artillery and rocket artillery can use conventional ammunition to kill the target, and its precision and efficiency are comparable to precision guided ammunition, which greatly reduces the consumption of ammunition and barrel of front-line forces.
In the study of the Syrian war, the Asian Arab conflict, the Russia-Ukraine conflict and other wars, the US military found that small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become indispensable equipment for the army's front-line combat units. Whether they are approaching the reconnaissance battlefield environment, identifying and monitoring target objects to provide intelligence information for the combat units, or refitting them into small unmanned bombers to directly launch attacks, they have changed the previous tactical application norms of ground combat teams. In view of this, the US Army is also accelerating the speed of assembling small unmanned aerial vehicles, enhancing the reconnaissance, surveillance, and intelligence gathering capabilities of frontline units that can be quickly deployed.
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