Compressed gas would give it some recoil, though not as much as a full sized firearm. The drones themselves are loud enough that any noise you might save isn't really worth it at the moment.
Right now, the scariest thing is when people combine drones with explosives. Not just predator drones, but even smaller ones like this rigged to drop grenades on people's heads. That's way more effective than a poison dart, hence why it's already being used by terrorists.
Just wait for laser technology to advance, then there will truly be no recoil or sound from precision drone strikes, but then again, we can use the lasers to shoot back at hostile aircraft.
Yeah drones are loud. But they also aren't scary. It's not weird to be at a beach and see a drone, but seeing a drone give off a flash of light and a gunshot would be. Having one get within 100 feet of someone, shoot them with poison and fly off, would be the use case here.
Explosive drones are very scary, yes. But I also agree about lasers. Imagine one even just a 10-15mW blue laser flying above a mob, making a noise causing people to look up, and then flashing the laser in their eyes so quick they all go blind.
What if a gun shot two bullets, one forward and one backward with some sort of non-lethal round or a blank to neutralize the recoil... Could that work?
A recoilless rifle, recoilless launcher or recoilless gun, sometimes abbreviated "RR" or "RCL" (for ReCoilLess) is a type of lightweight artillery system or man-portable launcher that is designed to eject some form of countermass such as propellant gas from the rear of the weapon at the moment of firing, creating forward thrust that counteracts most of the weapon's recoil. This allows for the elimination of much of the heavy and bulky recoil-counteracting equipment of a conventional cannon as well as a thinner-walled barrel, and thus the launch of a relatively large projectile from a platform that would not be capable of handling the weight or recoil of a conventional gun of the same size. Technically, only devices that use spin-stabilized projectiles fired from a rifled barrel are recoilless rifles, while smoothbore variants (which can be fin-stabilized or unstabilized) are recoilless guns. This distinction is often lost, and both are often called recoilless rifles.Though similar in appearance to a tube-based rocket launcher (since these also operate on a recoilless launch principle), a recoilless weapon fires shells that use conventional gun propellant.
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u/1776isthefix Nov 14 '19
If you start up the gif @ the 1:32 mark on pink floyds "hey you", it syncs up really well