New Ukrainian Sound-Homing Rocket Launcher Appears to Use Raspberry Pi

[Guest]

The Raspberry Pi is known as the "hobby" computer, an affordable way to add computing power to personal projects

Well, a Ukrainian defense company decided that it would be perfect to add the micro PC to a rocket launcher

 

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Digging deeper into the threads—and trying to make sense of Google's Ukrainian to English translation—there are hints that the weapon is meant to take on helicopters or even tanks and is guided by sound. That would make it the world's first sound-homing ground weapon. That might also explain why the Raspberry Pi is in the nose of the weapon, and why it appears to have so little room for a warhead.

 

 

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Still, there's a reason why sound-homing weapons haven't taken off. Battlefields are noisy, and a weapon that homes in on loud noises would have a difficult time picking out its target. This is a weapon that would be unreliable in a firefight, better used to ambush targets. On the plus side, it would be immune to traditional countermeasures such as anti-infrared flares and anti-radar chaff.

 

The weapon is still in its conception so it is yet to be known whether it is effective or not

I honestly don't think the technology will ever be put to use given the competition and its nature as an untested and unproven product 

It is quite interesting however to see the micro PCs used in DIY end up on the nose of a weapon that is meant to destroy tanks

 

Source: Popular Mechanics, Reddit, Peremogi 

[rn8686]

How to make a missile only from electronics; Raspberry Pi + Samsung Note 7 

[2FA]

I just want to live in a cyberpunk universe. Is that too much to ask?

51 minutes ago, DatSpeed said:

I honestly don't think the technology will ever be put to use given the competition and its nature as an untested and unproven product 

It will eventually, how soon though is anyones guess. It could be years, decades, or even a century though I doubt it will be that long.

[straight_stewie]

1 hour ago, DatSpeed said:

The weapon is still in its conception so it is yet to be known whether it is effective or not

I honestly don't think the technology will ever be put to use given the competition and its nature as an untested and unproven product 

It is quite interesting however to see the micro PCs used in DIY end up on the nose of a weapon that is meant to destroy tanks

It is an interesting thing. I don't think it'll only be slightly better than standard, shoulder fired, missiles. In other words: In a battlefield situation it will probably actually hit an enemy vehicle, but good luck with accurately targeting a specific vehicle.

 

But onto the last point: It's quite common to see military technology make it's way to citizens, why wouldn't the reverse be true? (and, for the record, the homing system in the missile could very well have been designed by a bunch of college kids I know that my uni has atleast one class, for approved students, that deals with advanced weapons systems. It's in the aerospace department).

[Dabombinable]

3 hours ago, rn8686 said:

How to make a missile only from electronics; Raspberry Pi + Samsung Note 7 

Shhh, Samsung only infringed on Dell''s fragmentation battery patent.

[tlink]

i can see terrorist uses for this, it will seek out the most noisy and therefore often most crowded spot.

[Linus_torvalds]

Fuck humanity, they even managed to make a weapon from RPi which is meant to learn children programing and robotics.

[Godlygamer23]

3 hours ago, mate_mate91 said:

Fuck humanity, they even managed to make a weapon from RPi which is meant to learn children programing and robotics.

Anything can be made a weapon, doesn't matter what it is. 

[Ronda]

Military grade assault computers should be banned.

There is no reason for civilians to have anything more powerful than an abacus.

[CtrlAltELITE]

12 hours ago, Ronda said:

Military grade assault computers should be banned.

There is no reason for civilians to have anything more powerful than an abacus.

 

Im from the UK, please dont give our government any ideas.

[samiscool51]

the raspberry pi devs are probely going to put a public statement saying:

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As your heard, the Ukrainian goverment has made a missile with the pi, we didn't design the pi for war, we designed it to help people learn computer programming, not how to make a missile with a pi, we hope others don't go down this path and make weapons out of everyday objects

 

[Guest]

-Want some raspberry? 

-Aww that's cute.

 

Missile launched, ETA 5 mins

[Wolther]

How to kill on a budget 

[deleted_member_030719]

15 hours ago, Godlygamer23 said:

Anything can be made a weapon, doesn't matter what it is. 

Sex is not a weap-- nvm, you're right.

 

Anyways, if I knew this little thing could've powered a missile, I would've bought it A LONG time ago. I am going to race the Ukraine government on our little experiments. 

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Well, anyone who has played with a pi would know how versatile it is. Not surprising to see it here. 

 

Why spend millions to design another micro processor when you can use the pi for prototyping.

[CtrlAltELITE]

7 hours ago, Jed M said:

Sex is not a weap-- nvm, you're right.

 

Anyways, if I knew this little thing could've powered a missile, I would've bought it A LONG time ago. I am going to race the Ukraine government on our little experiments. 

They have been used as guidance systems for amateur rocketry and drones since there conception, honestly I am suprised it has taken this long for someone to utilise this commercially.

 

The only unexpected part is that it is a country as advanced as Ukraine.

[PlayStation 2]

Looks like the Soldier got an upgrade

If you think about it, it's kinda fucking brilliant that they decided to do so.

[Miguel Batista]

Sound seeking weapons are not that new (torpedoes) the problem will be to isolate specific sounds (like a tank's engine) without following other groups of sounds that combined can sound remarkably similar. Not likely to be implemented IMHO.

 

Not to mention that as soon as we get hybrid or electric tanks, the missile is useless.

[Phate.exe]

On 11/13/2016 at 10:34 AM, Ronda said:

Military grade assault computers should be banned.

There is no reason for civilians to have anything more powerful than an abacus.

Is my Phenom II X6 an assault CPU?  It has more than five cores.

[Ronda]

44 minutes ago, Phate.exe said:

Is my Phenom II X6 an assault CPU?

If not by itself, then definitely when paired with that 16GB extended memory clip. Such CPUs should be limited to only using their cache.