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 want one!
Back this way, we call it ‘Kentucky windage’. Point that-a-way and pull the trigger. LOL I don’t know how much PSI that thing generates in terms of recoil, but I bet more than a few shoulders were dislocated or broken from firing one without some sort of gimballed mount on your boat. These pics simply don’t do the sheer size of a big punt gun justice. My, God, they’re huge. A man would have to be 20 feet tall to shoulder one the way we’d fire a regular 12 gauge. They weigh almost a hundred pounds. I was in awe the first time I saw one.
None of your 762's will shoot up???
Very simple and elegant. I love it!
Rev. 9:1-11 show eco friendly pests that do no harm to even the grass, but with face recognition of sorts, don’t kill, but make life painful for those without the seal of God in their forehead.
“I think the only way to fight it would be with microwaves.”
A gatling gun shooting frozen water or carbon dioxide pellets, pellets made on-site.
A low cost suicide drone trailing monofilament nylon gets above it.
muslims with gun toting drones...bad combination. it is only a matter of time before terrorists get their hands on these or Turkey uses them against civilians.
If you fired a recoil-stabilized weapon it doesn’t make difference do you fire 3 or 10 rounds.
Every weapon ever made has some sort of direct or indirect countermeasure. This is a 5.56mm rifle on a really sophisticated mount. The obvious counter measures begin with passive protection (body armor, light vehicle armor), then through disrupting target acquisition (smoke, flares, etc), disrupt communication (jam the signal), disrupt operation (anti aircraft systems), or finally disrupt the operator (find their base and attack it).
Any system has a vulnerability somewhere, you just have to find it.
Easily handled tech. No problem. Counter-commands to the rotors.
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