🚗 From Holden to Hunter
Imagine dragging an old Holden outta the wreckers. Where the V6 once rattled, the PLA’s shoved in avionics, GPS and a jammer. Bench seat gone, wheel binned, tablet where the AM radio used to be. Same dented tin, now a drone with more brains than a bloke in a cockpit.
⚡ The Mixer — Why Defenders Must Shoot Twice
- Every blip looks the same on radar.
- Do you fire a $5M PAC-3 at a $320k Holden-Kamikaze bomber, or is it a $1.1M Strike Drone?
- A 50/50 mix forces ~1.8× interceptor use; magazines are dead by wave three.
🛠 Variant A — Kamikaze Bomb-Trucks
- Stripped J-6: cockpit welded shut, seat swapped for 1,100 kg PBX.
- Nav: GNSS + baro + retro TERCOM ≈50 m CEP, good enough for a runway.
- Cost: ~$320k, cheaper than a Shahed, ten times faster.
- Profile: climb, cruise Mach 0.85, 70° dive from 4,000 m; impact ~550 m/s, makes a 12 × 4 m crater.
- Built from steel tougher than a Boeing, so not even AA gun pellets can dent it.
💥 Variant B — Armed Strike Drones
- Wingtip missiles PL-10 IR AAMs (≈20 km, big off-boresight bite).
- Runway-busters twin 200 kg bombs that rip up concrete.
- Anti-ship C-705KD (130 kg warhead, ~25 km stand-off).
- Rocket pods 57 mm salvos to smash reload crews and SHORAD.
- ECM pallet 2 kW DRFM jammer sneaking in like a dodgy alternator.
- Avionics/comms: autopilot + M-code GPS/Beidou, SATCOM, FH radio, nose camera for hand-flying.
- Cost: ~$1.1M, pocket change vs a Ghost bat.
