Ukraine develops Trembita self-funded missile amid fears of reduced U.S. aid
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Ukraine is right to worry about the end of US aid. TFG is definitely not on their side.
So a suicide drone with a small jet engine?
Impressive it is cheaper at 10k than the Shaheds which allegedly go for 15-30k and use a moped engine. But I am not sure if this counts as a missile which normally use solid fuel.
Its a drone with a pulse jet and a small warhead. It's basically a modern V1 production run. Being how pulse jets work I wouldn't be that suprised to learn two cycle engines are more expensive.
Oh cool I only knew of turbofans. TIL.
Is this headline really trying to imply that Ukraine developed an entire missle in the last 2 months? If that were the case, they'd never have needed foreign aid in the first place.
They have been working on lots of things since the war started. Given the restrictions on using western missiles I'm sure these were on the important list since the start of the war (and it wouldn't surprise me if they were in development as a 15 year project before). Small drones are fast and easy to make so they went all in on them early, but other things also got development. 2 years to deliver a missile sounds about right to me - they are much more complex than a small drone.
True. Downvoters clearly aren't engineers. I hope Ukraine will get all the support they require though.
Where did you get ‘2 months’ from?
The election.
I was pointing out the sensationalist headline. The contents of the article are irrelevant. Obviously they've been developing this for longer than 2 months.
Fair point, Trump has only started existing two months ago.
Yes, and the USA is the only country providing aid to Ukraine 🙄
The og version isn't much better.
Ukraine’s Moscow-malleting doodlebug missile is about to become very important
That said 'completes development' instead of 'develops' would have been an, unlikely in this inexplicable era of minimum syllable headlines, improvement.