SMALL GROUND DRONE TYPE 2025 "NEZUMI"
Small Ground Drone Type 2025, nicknamed "Nezumi" ("Rat") is an universal 4x4 wheeled unmanned drone platform developed by Murakami defense industires. The platform can perform a vairety of roles, including that of recoanissance work, mining, weapons carrier or logistics.
- The body of a drone has been constructed with easily availible materials, with most of it being made out of steel pipes.
- The drone is two meters long.
- Width is one meter.
- Height one meter.
- Empty weight 800 kilograms.
- Payload 600 kilograms.
- The drone is fully electric; it is powered by an electric power plant with 15 HP engine.
- Two lithium batteries are installed in the rear part of the vehicle. The batteries can be quickly replaced, which simplify mainenance and logistics.
- Full electrid drive allows the vehicle to run silent without alerting the enemy.
- Four roads with torsion bar suspension.
- The vehicle can reach speed of up to 30 km/h on a road.
- The vehicle can operate up to 10 hours.
- The vehicle can climb a slope with gradient of 40%.
The vehicle can climb a vertical obstacle of 400 mm and ford up to 600 mm.
- A high quality digital camera mounted at the vehicle's front.
- Thermal camera integrated with the digital one.
- The control is provided by FPV googles connected to a gamepad. Additional controls may be quired with various mission payload.
- Capability to operate independently by following a pre-programmed route; this mode decreases the drone's vunerability to enemy Electronic Warfare (EW).
- The vehicle can operate up to 3km from the uperator using a direct Ku-band datalink. It an also connect through a satellite, further increasing the operational range.
- Internal AIPN navigation system.
- Possibility to apply multi spectral camouflage net "Kitsune".
- The drone can carry variety of payloads, which include:
* Assortment of machine guns and automatic grenade launchers.
* Variety of Anti Tank Guided Missiles.
* Automatic, self loading 60 mortar.
* Sensors, radars.
* 9 cassetes with several mines.
* Ammunition, supplies.
* Wounder soldier.
* Explosives.