RC Helicopter Modded 45 Caliber Handgun Will Probably End In Disaster [VIDEO]

Gizmodo ^ | 11 Dec., 2008 | Gizmodo

[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]

[al baby]

What about the recoil

[gaijin]

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...!!!

[al baby]

wow it did not bounce it around too bad

[IncPen]

ping

[neutrino]

Nice! Very, very nice!

[Lurker]

I love this Country...

[smokingfrog]

Nothing good will ever come from that.

[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...

[brushcop]

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.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

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

[Cobra64]

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).

[300winmag]

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.

[smokingfrog]

you can’t be serious

[Oztrich Boy]

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

[TYVets]

Just what I need to hunt deer in the rain.

A great Christmas present.

[Squantos]

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

[Charlespg]

COOL!

can we hunt jihadies with it ?

[SIDENET]

I NEED ONE.

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

[TXnMA]

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...