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RC Helicopter Modded 45 Caliber Handgun Will Probably End In Disaster [VIDEO]
Gizmodo ^ | 11 Dec., 2008 | Gizmodo

Posted on 12/10/2008 8:25:09 PM PST by MyTwoCopperCoins




This modded Bergen Gasser EB remote-controlled helicopter has a handgun on its nose. Yes. A handgun. And as you can see in the video, it can also be fired remotely.

On its own, the Gasser EB is a mean, noisy machine. At 54 inches long, it's equipped with a 34.5-inch (800-millimeter) blade, and a gasoline engine powerful enough to resist the drag of a hefty handgun. Which is precisely what the owner of this beast, Jim Simmons, added to it: A Springfield 1911-A .45 caliber weapon.

Simmons also added a remote-controlled firing system. And if you think that's pretty stupid because the pilot on the ground won't be able to aim, think again: He also added a gun-sight digital camera. In other words: This is a fully-armed mini-UAV, which you can actually use to fly anywhere, aim, and fire at whatever target you want.

Yeah, this is exactly how documentaries about loads of dead people start.


VIDEO: [LiveLeak]



TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; copter; rc; uav
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1 posted on 12/10/2008 8:25:10 PM PST by MyTwoCopperCoins
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To: MyTwoCopperCoins

What about the recoil


2 posted on 12/10/2008 8:27:21 PM PST by al baby (Hi mom Mr. Obama, are you aware that Sarah Palin took on her own partyÂ’s establishment in Alaska a)
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To: MyTwoCopperCoins

It’s the future! they are already trying to put single-shot Barrett-like sniper rifles on very small UAV’s.

Verrrrry precise, no collateral damage, only the bad die.

GOOD STUFF...!!!


3 posted on 12/10/2008 8:28:01 PM PST by gaijin
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To: al baby

wow it did not bounce it around too bad


4 posted on 12/10/2008 8:29:06 PM PST by al baby (Hi mom Mr. Obama, are you aware that Sarah Palin took on her own partyÂ’s establishment in Alaska a)
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To: Nailbiter

ping


5 posted on 12/10/2008 8:32:31 PM PST by IncPen (Pitchforks and torches.)
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To: MyTwoCopperCoins

Nice! Very, very nice!


6 posted on 12/10/2008 8:33:36 PM PST by neutrino (Globalization is the economic treason that dare not speak its name.(173))
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To: gaijin
I love this Country...
7 posted on 12/10/2008 8:34:26 PM PST by Lurker ("America is at that awkward stage. " Claire Wolfe, call your office.)
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To: MyTwoCopperCoins

Nothing good will ever come from that.


8 posted on 12/10/2008 8:37:29 PM PST by smokingfrog (I'll go green when they plant me in the ground.)
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To: gaijin

More: I mean that the weapon is on a chin pivot-turret, and there’s a camera, an operator, and so on. The platform is intricately stabilized, and the CEP supposedly is just 1/3 of the results gotten from a stabilized human shooter aiming from the same distance.

I’d suspect that because of Sat. delay paired with the need for high accuracy that the controller would have to give final trigger release over to the platform at the last instant in order to bring about a positive hit.

And that there is a battery of lawyers sitting right there, in the room, prolly...


9 posted on 12/10/2008 8:44:56 PM PST by gaijin
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To: smokingfrog
Nothing good will ever come from that.

Oh yeah, just needs some more R&D, adapt other weapons. Poor man's UAV. I can see some good anti-gang uses.

10 posted on 12/10/2008 8:50:57 PM PST by brushcop (We remember SSG Harrison Brown, PVT Andrew Simmons B CO 2/69 3ID KIA Iraq OIF IV)
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To: gaijin

If it has software that’ll lock on target (infrared, shape, etc.) chances are good that you get the bad guy.


11 posted on 12/10/2008 8:57:38 PM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: smokingfrog
Nothing good will ever come from that.

Sheesh. It's good old American Yankee ingenuity. This is what makes (made) this country great. Creativity. The inventor may get a job working at NASA someday (before liberals pull the plug).

12 posted on 12/10/2008 9:01:14 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: Squantos; hiredhand; g'nad

Ping to a new shooting sport!

Personally, I’d go with a FNH FiveseveN with 30-round extended magazine, and a green laser for aiming.

American ingenuity at its finest.


13 posted on 12/10/2008 9:03:38 PM PST by 300winmag (Overkill never fails)
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To: brushcop

you can’t be serious


14 posted on 12/10/2008 9:09:39 PM PST by smokingfrog (I'll go green when they plant me in the ground.)
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To: MyTwoCopperCoins

Great! There goes the argument that guns aren’t roaming the streets by themselves, shooting people,


15 posted on 12/10/2008 9:12:18 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (Zero tolerance does not mean putting up with Barack for the next 4 years - that's just punishment)
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To: MyTwoCopperCoins
Just what I need to hunt deer in the rain.

A great Christmas present.

16 posted on 12/10/2008 9:12:30 PM PST by TYVets
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To: 300winmag

My neighbor has an RC helicopter. He chases local critters with it. That little .45 version didn’t look to accurate did it ......:o)


17 posted on 12/10/2008 9:16:55 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: MyTwoCopperCoins

COOL!

can we hunt jihadies with it ?


18 posted on 12/10/2008 9:33:36 PM PST by Charlespg
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To: MyTwoCopperCoins
I NEED ONE.

Hell who am I kidding? I need at least 3 or 4.

19 posted on 12/10/2008 9:38:20 PM PST by SIDENET (Hubba Hubba...)
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To: MyTwoCopperCoins
Wow! That guy is a shoo-in for a SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) grant from the DOD. The rules for writing SBIR proposals are extremly full of bureaucratic chickenguano, but once he gets his appliction past the screeners, (one bureaucrat for each paragraph- looking for undotted "i"s, etc.) that video would make him a sure winner...
20 posted on 12/10/2008 9:50:55 PM PST by TXnMA (Chief Justice: "To administer this oath would violate my oath to uphold the Constitution.")
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