Posted on 07/21/2015 2:22:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Austin Haughwout posted a video that shows a four-propeller drone hovering as it fires four shots in a wooded area
An 18-year-old Connecticut man may be in trouble with federal aviation officials after posting a video online that shows shots being fired from a drone that had been jury-rigged with a handgun.
The FAA said Tuesday it is investigating whether Austin Haughwout of Clinton violated its regulations, which prohibit the careless or reckless operation of a model aircraft.
Haughwout’s father told WFSB-TV last week that his son created the drone with the help of a Central Connecticut State University professor. The 14-second video shows a four-propeller drone with a semiautomatic handgun strapped on top hovering as it fires four shots in a wooded area.
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“He got drunk in his pickup and started trying to shoot out the running lights of aircraft that were taking off”
I had an uncle who used to fly a single engine plane all over the country. Periodically, over forty some odd years of flying, he’d find a bullet hole or two in the wings or body. He generally didn’t know when it happened. People are idiots.
SpaceBar is correct. These already exist in .338 caliber.
“Mounted onto this UAV is a lightweight gun turret developed by Space Dynamics Laboratory. The turret carries a .338 Lapua Magnum rifle and a situational awareness camera plus a scope with cameras attached that provides two levels of zoom. Control of the rifle is via a laptop computer with a Xbox 360 gaming controller used for aiming and firing.’
Tell that to the Nazis that bought the farm by partizans using that piece of crap Liberator.
Ah..create another felon. Only up side is he is probably White so he will help skew the statistics about Blacks overwhelmingly dominating the felon gun crime ledger.
Two things apply here: 1. Loose lips sink ships. 2. Fool's names and fool's faces are always seen in public places. To wit} On Line. If he had not posted on line video, he probably been o.k. Al law enforcement agencies monitor the internet constantly. And if he would have been a protected minority, he would have been o.k. The give away that he was White was in the article. Specifically, the phrase, "An eighteen year old man". If he had been a protected minority, the wording would have read, "a teen" or "a youth".
The FP-45 liberator was never deployed in Europe, and it’s intended function was completely different. One shot to get a real gun.
A casualty of a tyrannical government.
If these super geniuses would have had the sense to put a Barrett on one of our drones ISIS could have all been picked off by now. They’re just embarrassed.
BTTT
Next step is to equip it with A.I. computing. Sort of like the Google cars that autodrive. But program it to not harm conservatives, just the liberal crazies. (I’m just speculating, I would never build such a thing!)
Very good show on this and the French rescue of the hostages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur1zHsGEvs8
It’s a joke, see...
i’m confused. do people think all these university grants for semi and fully autonomous quadcopters (quads) are for entertainment value? really??
take that cute little quad, drop the battery, insert a motorcycle engine. scale up the rotors (3’ or 4’ diameter) and you will have a few hundred pounds of lift. construct the body to allow for various mission packages, including one that would house thousands of rounds.
then scale up production. tens of thousands working in unison towards a common goal.
this is the next gen war fighter.
and that’s only one type of drone. i’d easily imagine dozens of special purpose drones working together to establish supply line as well as beachhead logistics.
Only the government is sanctioned to have weapons-mounted drones...
He chose to mount what was probably an available weapon rather than one optimized for the mission. The recoil of firing disrupts the firing platform, and it should be equipped with a recoil brake to reduce the effect of the muzzle flash, at least. Better yet: he could have gone back to the 1970s, and checked out the experiments by George Nonte and a few other researchers involved in fitting a gyrostabilizer to an Ingram M10 submachinegun, which was already prepared for a sound suppressor.
And, of course, there's always the M79/M203 grenade launcher....
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