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US Marines have experienced UK “pnevmobazuku” SkyWall100

A British company has developed a pneumatic OpenWorks Engineering “bazooka”, designed to deal with small unmanned flying civilian devices, which are increasingly used in recent years to carry out terrorist acts. As the “Warspot” citing the company's press service, testing a new “pneumatic bazookas” took place as part of NATO exercises NNTEX-18C.

Морпехи США испытали британскую "пневмобазуку" SkyWall100

According to the press service of OpenWorks Engineering, US Marine Corps exercises, during which the new SkyWall100 anti-drone device was used, passed at the end of last year at the Quantico base of the US Marine Corps. During the exercise, the Marines tested various systems to combat small commercial drones..

According to the developers, SkyWall100 weighs 10 kg, and is capable of intercepting UAVs at altitudes up to 100 m. The device is equipped “smart aim” Laser-Equipped Smartscope, which automatically calculates all the data and programs the projectile fired. Operator actions are kept to a minimum: state “bazooka on the target and press the trigger. The night mode of the sight allows you to shoot at night. Compressed air from a cylinder is used to shoot. Various types of projectiles have been developed for the device.: training, with mesh, with net and parachute, with electromagnetic impulse.

The company stated, that three types of new device are being developed: SkyWall 100 - model for shooting from the shoulder; SkyWall 200 – easel version of SkyWall 100; SkyWall 300 – stationary automatic installation.

                          
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