00:00¿Por qué los militares de los diseños de un diseño de un diseño de iranianos?
00:04Porque es muy efectivo.
00:06Cuando su warheada hace contacto, un firing pin en el primer, activa el detonador y se ofre una explosión.
00:14Pero los Estados Unidos no solo copy, han upgradeado.
00:17Se tomó el diseño de iranianos y swapó el GPS navegación para un avance, pero budget-friendo,
00:22optical-terrain-matching software.
00:24Pero si hay que enviarlo a los iranianos, que básicamente construyó el diseño de un diseño de cruise missile.
00:28To put it in perspective, a single Tomahawk missile cost 2.5 million dollars.
00:34A Shahid and American Lucas drone, only about $35,000.
00:38And the craziest part, these cheap drones can actually be used to hunt down mobile targets,
00:44like tanks and other armored vehicles.
00:46When the Pentagon captured an iranian Shahid-136, they didn't just study it, they cloned it.
00:52But here's the twist, when engineers cracked the iranian drone open,
00:55it was already full of American-made GPS modules and microchips.
00:59On the outside, the Shahid and the new American Lucas drone are practically twins,
01:04sharing the exact same 3.5-meter delta-wing frame.
01:08But peel back the carbon fiber, and they are completely different machines.
01:12The Shahid is a blunt instrument.
01:14It's a blind, flying bomb designed to be launched in massive swarms along a rigid path
01:19just to overwhelm air defenses.
01:21But the U.S. Lucas drone, however, taps directly into the Pentagon's heavily encrypted,
01:26military-grade M-code GPS that is highly resistant to enemy spoofing and jamming.
01:31Furthermore, the Lucas is equipped with advanced optical terrain-matching software.
01:36If the iranian military manages to jam the GPS, the American drone simply looks down.
01:40The moment the GPS signal drops, the drone's flight computer instantly seamlessly switches
01:46to its internal backup, a technology known as Digital Scene-Matching Area Correlation.
01:51The drone literally looks down.
01:54A high-definition optical sensor housed in the underbelly snaps awake,
01:58functioning like a high-speed digital eye.
02:00It begins capturing continuous rapid-fire images of the terrain passing below,
02:05scanning the ridgelines, the dry riverbeds, the highway intersections,
02:08and the shadows of the Iranian mountains.
02:10This terrain-scanning technology is exactly what you find inside a Tomahawk cruise missile.
02:16But here's the game-changer.
02:17A single Tomahawk costs $2.5 million.
02:21The Lucas drone delivers that exact same precision for just $35,000.
02:28But seeing the ground isn't enough, the drone has to understand what it's looking at.
02:33Deep inside the drone's chassis, protected from the electronic jamming outside,
02:37is a solid-state memory drive preloaded with highly classified,
02:41high-resolution 3D topographical satellite maps of the entire region.
02:46The drone's onboard artificial intelligence takes the live video feed from its camera
02:50and instantly converts the landscape into a digital wireframe mesh.
02:54It then overlays this live scanning mesh onto the pre-recorded 3D map in its memory,
02:59searching for a match.
03:00It acts like a high-speed puzzle solver, comparing the unique contours of the Earth below
03:05to the digital map inside its brain.
03:07In a fraction of a second, the algorithm recognizes a specific mountain ridge or road layout.
03:13By identifying exactly what it is flying over,
03:15the drone instantly calculates its precise coordinates, altitude, and speed,
03:20all without a single signal from space.
03:22It realizes it has drifted a few hundred feet to the left due to crosswinds.
03:26The flight computer sends micro-adjustments to the rear control surfaces.
03:31The drone banks sharply, correcting its trajectory, and locks back onto the strike path.
03:36Even in a completely blacked-out, GPS-denied environment,
03:39this continuous cycle of scanning, matching, and correcting allows the American drone
03:43to thread the needle through enemy air defenses and drop its payload with devastating pinpoint accuracy.
03:49While the Shahid-136 carries a 40-50 kg explosive warhead,
03:55a fragmenting high-explosive charge that produces both a blast over-pressure wave
04:00and a lethal spray of high-velocity metal fragments.
04:06When it's time to strike, both drones drop from the sky in a steep, 80-degree death dive.
04:11But here is how the Lucas drone is different from the Shahid-136.
04:15This isn't just for accuracy.
04:17It gives enemy air defenses almost zero time to react.
04:20When the drone's nose slams into the target, raw physics takes over.
04:24The sudden violent stop causes a mechanical firing pin inside the war
04:28headed to jolt forward using its own momentum.
04:31Just for context, both drones use a point detonating PD fuse.
04:35In a fraction of a blink, it strikes a primer,
04:37throwing a spark into the detonator and instantly admiting the main explosive core.
04:42What happens next is devastating.
04:44The solid explosives instantly vaporize into gas,
04:47creating a massive, invisible shockwave that crushes concrete and shatters electronics.
04:52Simultaneously, the drone's metal casing is ripped apart,
04:55sending hundreds of razor-sharp steel fragments flying outward at supersonic speeds.
05:00But can this be used for a tank?
05:02Yes, if the Lucas is equipped with its anti-tank warhead,
05:04it goes a step further, firing a molten, high-velocity metal slug straight through heavy armor.
05:11But how effective is the Lucas against heavily armored targets like tanks?
05:15Highly effective.
05:16When equipped with a specialized anti-tank warhead,
05:19the drone functions much like an RPG.
05:24Upon detonation, it drives a high-velocity, molten metal slug directly through the vehicle's armor.
05:32Next, let's look at the operational range.
05:35How far can these kamikaze drones travel?
05:38The original Iranian Shode 136 relies on a large, four-cylinder Mano MD-550 engine.
05:45This bulky, fuel-heavy setup is designed for long-range bombardment,
05:49allowing the drone to travel anywhere from 2,000 to 2,500 kilometers.
05:53Conversely, the American Lucas utilizes a compact 215 cc gasoline engine.
06:00By reducing its fuel payload, its maximum reach is capped at approximately 800 kilometers.
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