Posted on 12/17/2019 4:26:42 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
Turkey is preparing to receive its first shipment of armed multicopter drones this month, according to New Scientist. Made by the country's own Asisguard, the Songar drone can carry 200 rounds of 5.56 x 45 mm NATO class ammo, and can hit a 15-cm-square (6-inch-square) target from 200 m (650 ft) away with single shots, 15-bullet bursts or a full auto unloading.
The 25-kg (55-lb) drones use a four-armed carbon body design with two coaxially mounted large props on each arm. The automatic machine gun beneath rests in a tilting mount, allowing a remote operator to aim it using controls that would be familiar to anyone who's used the camera on a DJI Phantom.
It carries sufficient battery and powerful enough communications to fly 10 km (6.2 mi) on a mission, it's GPS and GLONASS stabilized, and it offers twin camera operation for a pilot and gunner if required.
Where camera drones carry gimbals to stabilize vision, this thing has an automatic shooting stabilization system to cancel out recoil and keep the gun on target as it fires, while a camera streams back footage of the target for damage evaluation. The whole thing looks eerily like a video game.
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Skynet is here...
(I wondered how long it would take before we saw things like this being fielded. And if the Turks have it, they’re probably not the first)
Try fighting those things with your 120 year old shotgun and rifle technology.
The modern battlefield is AI run.
What's That?
That's my little Octocopter.
I reckon the the time is coming were field soldiers will have to carry goose guns. Maybe some kind of mobile, elevating Punt Gun.
If it has an RF transmitter it’s vulnerable.
Exactly/ Just ruin the signal to noise ratio if nothing else.
Maybe the net guns they’re testing against personnel. Capture the drone, reprogram it to go right back to its place of origin, and shoot up its operators.
I think the only way to fight it would be with microwaves.
Aside from that, my critique of the design is that the pintle mount appears to be significantly offset from the center of mass, which should make stabilization very difficult (they claim to have solved this).
My mental design of such a beast was more along the lines of a tilt rotor long range bot with a M2. Using the extended range available from the tilt rotor configuration, it could travel to and land somewhere in the bad guys’ backyard, and set up shop in the dark of night. Using passive/active IR sensors, it would wait for the bad guys to appear, do its deed, and then quietly fly away.
Codename: Grim Reaper :)
This drone has an “automatic shooting stabilization system to cancel out recoil and keep the gun on target as it fires”
That will be quite a trick when full-auto 200 x 5.56 x 45 mm is unleashed.
First customer will be the narco cartels.
Is this what is called a “Turkey Shoot”?
Are the octocopters too small for MPAD fire?
Um?
“Grim Reaper” - That’s actually a pretty genius concept.
I’d be curious to learn about microwaves. Seems like that or like others have said regarding radio frequencies (or EMP) would be about the only way to kill these things.
Kinetic-change-of-command Ping.
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