therapist: the shotgun drone doesnt exist it cannot hurt you
shotgun drone:
A weapon to surpass metal gear
Russia declaring war on the birds it seems
Cant wait til we get grenade drones, can you imagine a drone like that flying at something and then exploding on contact?
Sound's like it'd be the bomb man
I genuinely thought for a second that it would just hover in place like a quad-rotor drone and shoot downwards lmao
I am legitimately less scared of this (to the point of complete stillness) than I am of the UAVs that America has been using since the early 2000s that are capable of levelling city blocks, so I dunno what this headline is attempting to accomplish.
Drone that could shoot at me with a shotgun from high-ass position: Yeah, that's pretty concerning, actually, I'm glad my life is in a state where it's unlikely I'd have to be targetted by one of those.
Drone that could literally vaporize the entire block I live on, everyone around me, me myself, and my dogs with a thermobaric strike: gott in himmel.
Strapping a shotgun (known for working best at close range) to a drone (which spends most of its time hundreds of feet in the air) is certainly an... innovative design decision.
considering how it looks like a ww2-era bomber i was surprised when it started flying in the opposite direction i expected
its a shotgun , just dont let it come close range?
Im pretty sure I saw footage a couple years back of Syria, with drones being used to drop mortars or grenades into crowds.
This would be an amazing tool for farmers looking to chase off crows.
So this is what the Russian state is investing in instead of their crumbling infrastructure?
This thing could easily straight up murder you with a single shot even from flight-height, it's more the fact that it's hideously unwieldy and worse than 20+ year old technology that makes it a completely ineffectual and brainless design. Compared to say, a Predator drone, this is utterly laughable.
I kept reading "Shotgun Wedding Drone" somehow and was thoroughly confused. Have to say I'm dissatisfied.
Yep, that's what the video called, it's anti-drone solution
What if we strapped a person to one instead? You'd never have to wait in traffic to go to work! This kind of technology is revolutionary
A predator drone costs $4,030,000 dollars and you'd have to get a hold of General Atomics to get one.
This thing costs maybe $1500 to make and is probably going to be very easy to get a hold of considering it's literally just a gun with wings.
Yes, a predator drone is obviously going to be a lot more deadly than this if you have one, but that's like saying a ballistic missile is more deadly than a Bazooka. The comparison is just absurd.
The scary thing about these drones is not them all by themselves, but the numbers of them that could be produced as the technology gets more and more refined. Imagine a world where there exists an incredibly cheap to produce, single shot drone that can automatically home in on people and shoot them. Warfare as we know it will be changed as much as the introduction of guns changed it. No longer would you have to have anyone on the field, you could drop them anywhere the enemy is and have them be annihilated within a few hours. That's not the only possibility though. Malevolent governments could use them to quell any kind of riot or protest they wish. Any terrorist who gets their hands on them could just drop them in a public place and kill hundreds of people.
If you're not scared of these developments then you really do not understand the implications of the technology. It's like looking at the Atom Bomb before Trinity and going "Pah. We're already killing people by the thousands with normal bombs, those are deadly enough. We should fear them more."
Sure a single drone like this doesnt look that amazing.
But imagine being in a firefight and hearing the sound of literally a thousand of these coming to get you. And that is still under half the cost of a Predator.
How can you defend yourself?
This rifle with wings is significantly less useful/more expensive than the quadcopters with grenades strapped to them that militias in the ME have been operating for a few years now
Either way countermeasures have been developed for the commercial UAS threat so it's no big deal
No, I fully understand the implications of the technology-- I understood it when drones like the Predator were designed. It was only a matter of time before the tech was miniaturized from that point.
However, am I as scared of a single drone with a mounted SAIGA-12 clone as I would be of a shrunken-down Predator clone? No. Not least because this is clearly designed for anti-drone and anti-surveillance-device use.
Or you can use this amazing thing called human infantry, or a helicopter gunship, both of which are vastly more fit for purpose. Or any of the cheaper end of armed UAV, since this drone has clearly deficiencies when it comes to ground-attack-- do you know how inefficient it is for something like this to angle itself downward and do a strafing run with a fucking mounted SAIGA pattern shotgun? It could kill a bunch of unarmored targets, yeah, but from within sight while doing a downward strafe run. The average UAV could annihilate a block of armored materiel from a height that's almost impossible to counteract from the ground. Are you even remotely aware of why most western nations don't have their own magic shotgun drones?
Stop being so histrionic, jesus. This isn't THE DAWN OF THE MACHINES. This hasn't changed warfare in the least. Just like the hypersonic nuke delivery vehicle that Russia "invented" last month (and the US had and abandoned in the 1960s for being literally too retarded to work) it's a straight up propaganda piece showing off tech that has always been possible but, at the same time, has always been unfeasible. You're acting like these are the new 3D-printed boogeyman when they're ultimately a crazy handful of nothing.
On the black markets of most countries that are afflicted by terrorism, RGD-5 grenades cost less than a lunch pail and AKs are sold in bulk so I honestly don't see how this is a greater threat than the already pre-extant proliferation of weapons.
It this drone rattles you to your core then you should probably figure out a way to go back in time and live out your lifespan before the 1970's because this level of nutty military-industrialism is how it's been since the Moon Landings and it's been a race to the bottom ever since.
The real concern is shit like ISIS using commercially available quadcopter drones and strapping bombs to them as we've seen above. This dumbass Stuka wannabe is nothing and will disappear from the headlines by the end of next month,
Really makes you wonder. The tech behind Metal Gear WAS all of russian origin.
Figures it's soviet when a single dude in spandex can take it down
But why? What's the point?
25 of them aswell technically
yeah i saw a Episode of "Criminal Minds >>
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7042722/
someone strapped a small mp5 to a drone was flying it into a office building and killed everyone from far away
shits scary as fuck...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlO2gcs1YvM
No, you clearly don't understand the implications because you missed the fucking point entirely.
The scariest thing about these drones is not what they are themselves, though it's still a bit unsettling because they're still very much able to kill you even if they likely wouldn't be used in that role all to much, it's where it leads into the future. The problem is when you make a cheaper, smaller, more easy to control and especially automated version of this. That's when things will change. I never said this thing is the coming of mass destruction, but it puts us on the path where it will.
Is it cheaper right now to buy a civilian drone and strap a mortar shell to the bottom of it and more useful to strap a mortar shell to the bottom of a civilian drone and let loose with it? Yes. But in the future, it's going to be way more cheaper to just get a drone that can suicide bomb something for you than actual suicide bombers.
Am I scared of this thing right now? Not really, but I'm not exactly quaking in my boots at the idea of nuclear despite the fact it could happen at any minute because it's very unlikely. Am I worried however about how this technology can develop in the future? Yes, just as much as automation and global warming.
But this rifle with wings is designed to shoot down other small drones.
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