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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I thought of a couple of ways:
1. Fuel air explosion
2. Chaff (aluminum tinsel) in large quantities dropped from a balloon. This will end communication with the drone and they'll crash or go off course.
3.Powerful radio interference (Van de Graff generator?)
4.Trained hawks to destroy them.
5. Shotguns from hunters.
I just watched the movie “Angel Has Fallen” on a flight. Regardless of anyone’s opinion of this franchise, the drone scene is worth the whole film, imho. Here it is...
emp gun
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
Just that description in the headline makes it sound like a lethal weapon. “Octocopters with Anti-Recoil systems”.
Would you want one of those things coming after you?
Me neither!
Helium filled balloons trailing elect fence wire or tethered with heavy gauge fishing line.
I suspect a 308 at 4 or 5 hundred yards will render the octocopter useless.
probably not actually, drones could easily be programmed to do random walks of jitters and be very hard to hit with any human aimed system.
I wouldn’t want OctoMom coming after me either...
EMP
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I’ve been really really good this year
When I was a young teen in central WI, the bank I used had the 2 Guage shells, behind glass, and photos of men posing with the gun and hundreds of ducks ligned up, after the 2 Guage was used just a couple of times. There were also Army infantry photos with the 2 Guage, and two to three man shooting/buddy teams from WWI era.
It was obviously cumbersome, but when used it left a few marks. I am
I am sure efficient transport of such a gun would require some wheels.
The best defense against drones is your own drones.
The average shell was about 1 1/2” to 2” in diameter, 8 1/2” to 9 3/4” in length, and fired 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of buckshot per shell. They could purportedly take down 50 birds with one shot. Yeah, that’ll leave a mark. LOL To me, that isn’t hunting, it’s harvesting.
That thing had to have some horizontal eecoil follow through.
Sure wouldn’t need to be sharp shooter with something like that. All you would need is cardinal direction!
The trick will no doubt include "roller-delayed blowback", an impressive Turkish design.
Makes one wonder about the Vegas Mandalay Bay event, with the drone airport right across the street and witnesses reporting they felt the heat of things flying over their heads.
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