A new quadcopter loitering munition from pioneers IAI is the smartest and most powerful yet seen, with a mission to destroy tanks.
IAI say Rotem Alpha can be carried in a backpack and readied in two minutes, though this relies on the operator being able to haul a backpack with 55 pounds of drone in addition to their other gear. It carries a shaped charge warhead claimed to penetrate up to 600 mm or armor plate, enough to destroy the heaviest of tanks.So far Rotem Alpha just looks like a super-sized Rotem-L for the anti-vehicle rather than anti-personnel role.
Rotem Alpha has a ‘perch and stare’ capability: the operator can land the drone on a building or hill and wait until the enemy approaches before ambushing them. This is similar to thebeing developed for Russian FPVs, except the drone can position itself rather than having to be manually positions. The new version also has more advanced sensors; in addition to daylight and night cameras, it has an acoustic sensor suite, which is likely able to pick up enemy vehicles by their engine noise, or to detect and locate gunfire. The Rotem-L is notably quiet in flight, and the presence of these sensors suggests that the bigger version is quiet enough not to interfere with sound sensors.
“ROTEM Alpha autonomously detects and locates enemy hostile fire sources like artillery, rockets, and missiles launchers, then investigates and engages a direct attack using its electro-optical day and night seeker,” accordingPresumably the human operator is in the loop during this attack sequence, but it suggests that Rotem Alpha can be positioned close to the front line, or patrol beyond it, to hunt and destroy enemy artillery.
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