⚡🇵🇰 BEETLE — Mortar-Carrier Quadcopter:

🔹Platform: compact, man-portable quadrotor with sturdy motors, large props and under-fuselage payload mount.

🔹Payload: 2 × 60 mm mortars (modular bay).

🔹Sensors: EO 30× optical, TI 640×512 @25 Hz, dual lenses, LRF (~1 km).

🔹Performance: 1230×1230×500 mm; ~18 kg; 75 min ISR / 60 min payload mode; range 5–8 km; speed 15–20 m/s; Li-ion 36 Ah; service ceiling ~3500 m AMSL.

🔹Nav/Links: Multi-GNSS (GPS/GLONASS/BeiDou), telemetry (altitude, attitude, distance, speed).

🔹Tactical value: portable ISR + short-range loitering indirect fire for rapid small-unit support.

🔹Limits: GNSS/datalink vulnerability, limited payload and survivability in contested airspace, plan degraded navigation and short-range employment.

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