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1 ThomasLite  Fri, Jun 14, 2013 3:49:35pm
I should note that I’m not entirely sure this video is real, either. We do see the trigger being pulled, but there are a lot of “cut away to show the explosions” bits that suggest that this is just a super creepy piece of science fiction that could be real any minute now.

Why would it not be? Building a quad isn’t exactly rocket science anymore and that remotely triggered gun is child’s play for anyone with a little experience in RC modelling and in possession of said firearm.
it would take a few minutes to get the damn thing calibrated but aside from that there’s really nothing difficult about this.

…it is also possibly the most impractical thing ever; if I want to kill something with an RC model that size I can take a helicopter model from the early nineties and bloody well fly it into them - that tends to do more damage than a gunshot wound. Shooting a quad out of the sky won’t take much of an effort, either.

If you want to weaponize such a model you’d be better off taping a pound (or two) of plastic explosives to the damn thing and using it kamikaze-style, so to say.

a gun on a quad or similar drone platform would become scary once someone takes a high-powered (long range) rifle and manages to stabilize the bugger sufficiently to actually hit the broad side of a barn from more than a few metres (for all their apparent stability up in in the sky, in my experience quads do ‘wobble’ quite a bit to stay as still as they do).

2 Bubblehead II  Fri, Jun 14, 2013 3:58:24pm

I am going to have to call B.S. on this video for the plain and simple fact that there is no aiming device, like a camera, mounted on that pistol or on the drone itself that I can see. And as you pointed out, there is no actual footage from the drone showing it shooting something. Could this be done? Yep. Entirely possible. And like the printed gun, some idiot will do it for real and post actual video of it being done.

3 ThomasLite  Fri, Jun 14, 2013 4:00:04pm

re: #2 Bubblehead II

I am going to have to call B.S. on this video for the plain and simple fact that there is no aiming device, like a camera, mounted on that pistol or on the drone itself that I can see. And as you pointed out, there is no actual footage from the drone showing it shooting something. Could this be done? Yep. Entirely possible. And like the printed gun, some idiot will do it for real and post actual video of it being done.

I think he’s taking the same distance from his target every time; the FPV camera (I think) he’s flying the bugger by could be aiming mechanism enough. Do keep in mind he wouldn’t show you the 20+ misses for every hit in any case ;)

4 Bubblehead II  Fri, Jun 14, 2013 4:10:59pm

re: #3 ThomasLite

I think he’s taking the same distance from his target every time; the FPV camera (I think) he’s flying the bugger by could be aiming mechanism enough. Do keep in mind he wouldn’t show you the 20+ misses for every hit in any case ;)

Perhaps, but without a minimal sighting system, his chances of hitting anything is squat. At a minimum, using the FPV camera, he would have had to put some sort of aim point in front of the camera and do a laser bore sight adjustment to it just to get close. And again, why no footage from the drone showing it taking the shot?

5 EiMitch  Fri, Jun 14, 2013 4:30:42pm

Not exactly new to me. Notorious Youtube gun-nut FPSRussia had something similar a year ago. Only this one had goddam full-auto weapon attached. Because 1-shot-1-kill is for sissies or something.

Link

Now that is scary.

6 ThomasLite  Fri, Jun 14, 2013 4:37:34pm

re: #4 Bubblehead II

Perhaps, but without a minimal sighting system, his chances of hitting anything is squat. At a minimum, using the FPV camera, he would have had to put some sort of aim point in front of the camera and do a laser bore sight adjustment to it just to get close. And again, why no footage from the drone showing it taking the shot?

I’ve seen something like that done with a bb gun by a guy who just stuck a bit of transparent tape on the monitor and painted an aiming dot on it. his gun was closer to the camera though. Accuracy was crap but as I said, he’s not showing the 20+ misses to every hit :) might be fake, but it could work like this. sorta. not in any practically applicable way but then again, the number of practical uses for a f’ing handgun under a quad is zilch anyway.

7 goddamnedfrank  Fri, Jun 14, 2013 4:42:33pm

re: #2 Bubblehead II

I am going to have to call B.S. on this video for the plain and simple fact that there is no aiming device, like a camera, mounted on that pistol or on the drone itself that I can see.

There’s a modified GoPro mounted on one of the masts behind the gun.

8 ThomasLite  Fri, Jun 14, 2013 5:07:17pm

Oh hey, go figure. didn’t even bother to check where the cam was mounted but you’re right. it actually lines up with the gun somewhat as long as that gun isn’t mounted in a way in which it could actually pivot (which it doesn’t seem to be).

9 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Jun 14, 2013 6:24:20pm

re: #5 EiMitch

Not exactly new to me. Notorious Youtube gun-nut FPSRussia had something similar a year ago. Only this one had goddam full-auto weapon attached. Because 1-shot-1-kill is for sissies or something.

Link

Now that is scary.

If you’re going to mount a gun-type weapon on a UAV, especially a fixed wing model, then full-auto offers major advantages, since it allows the UAV to perform strafing attacks against ground targets. This allows multiple targets to be hit in a single pass.

Note: The preceding was based solely on effectiveness. It was not intended as a remark on morality.

10 ThomasLite  Fri, Jun 14, 2013 6:38:24pm

re: #9 Dark_Falcon

Note: The preceding was based solely on effectiveness. It was not intended as a remark on morality.

Why the feth not? I mean, I don’t get the whole moral outrage over this issue. If we’re going to justify pumping people full of lead I’m not going to fething care whether that gun had it’s trigger pulled by flesh and blood or a servo. If you’re going to legitimately kill a bunch of folks, might as well get the proper tool to do so, right? Don’t think much of the last 200+ years of military history has taken much of a different view there, aside from a rather peculiar stand on dum-dum ammunition which frankly I find silly - anything besides that, landmines, cluster ammo etc had collateral damage concerns. this is just a slightly different way of getting the bloody bullet in the right place.

11 Lancelot Link  Fri, Jun 14, 2013 7:17:22pm

Those FPSRussia people have some impressive guns. They must be very safe.
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