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New military drone that fires 6.000 rounds per minute is being tested. Called Mojave, the model fires 10 rounds in a pickup truck test and surprises the military industry!
A new armed military drone is impressing the world with its high technology. The short takeoff and landing drone General Atomics' Mojave, armed with a pair of Dillon Aero DAP-6 Minigun pods, it destroyed static targets in a live-fire demonstration, the first of its kind. In this article we will find out everything about this military drone that fires 6.000 rounds per minute.
How were the tests of the new military drone carried out?
The 6.000-rounds-per-minute military drone armed with DAP-6s flew past multiple ground targets in seven strafing attacks in two separate sorties on April 13, according to a press release and accompanying video that General Aeronautical Systems, Inc. recently published.
At one point in the video, a Chevy pickup truck explodes. The 7,62×51mm rounds fired by a Minigun are not explosives, but the truck may have been rigged with explosives or may have caught fire from the fuel it was carrying inside.
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The new military drone fired a total of 10 rounds of 7,62×51mm ammunition over the seven passes, which translates to an average of approximately 1.428 rounds per pass. GA-ASI conducted the live-fire demonstration, which was internally funded, at the Army's Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona.
The Minigun's rate of fire in a DAP-6 pod is 3.000 rounds per minute, according to Dillon. The combined rate of fire of the two pods the Mojave carried during the demonstration made it a military drone that fires 6.000 rounds per minute.
The DAP-6's maximum magazine capacity is also 3.000 rounds, which provides a total of 60 seconds of firing time. The magazine can be loaded with less ammunition to reduce its overall weight.
Challenges in the new drone that fires 6.000 shots per minute
According to C. Mark Brinkley, senior director of Marketing and Strategic Communications for GA-ASI, once the pilot team understood the individual impact points of the rounds fired by each cannon, it was possible to perform the demonstration and attack targets from the air.
In the future, the company envisions a system with rotating cannons oriented toward the aircraft's sensor ball, which will allow for a greater range of targets and flexibility.
The general idea of a new military drone that fires 6.000 rounds per minute from a cannon pod in which the weapons can be articulated to varying degrees is not new. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union designed and deployed several such cannon-pod systems.
Drone can also be equipped with other weapons
Anyway, as far as concerns initial testing, was considered a resounding success. The aircraft transported the weapons without incident. There were no vibration or recoil issues. We will see how the accuracy and effectiveness of the new military drone that fires 6.000 rounds per minute improves as its development continues.
Warzone highlighted the challenges of integrating a cannon-based weapons system onto a drone like this when GA-ASI published the first photo of the Mojave with DAP-6 pods under its wings in 2022. Weapons like the DAP-6 are just some of the weapons that the new military drone that fires 6.000 rounds per minute could carry.
Unveiled to the public in 2021 and first flown that year, the Mojave has three hardpoints under each wing. The drone has also been displayed loaded with AGM-114 Hellfires and AGM-179 Joint Air-to-Ground Missiles (JAGM) in the past.
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