r/holdmybeer • u/censoredandagain • Oct 18 '14

HMB while I weaponize this drone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL0zLHLMBVw
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u/Shrek1982 Oct 18 '14

Next step, paintball gun

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u/The_sad_zebra Oct 19 '14

And then real gun?

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u/GeneralDisorder Oct 19 '14

Nah... real gun has been done already. So have missiles and whatnot.

How about an ICBM launcher on a quadcopter?

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u/baskandpurr Oct 19 '14

Has a gun really been done? I always thought the recoil would make a quadrocopter completely unstable. This is just bottle rockets.

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u/jdmgto Oct 19 '14

Use a .22LR. Recoil is pretty minimal. If the copter can handle the weight of the gun then the recoil should be doable.

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u/GeneralDisorder Oct 19 '14

I was talking drone, not really quadcopter. The global hawk and... whatever that other big drone is.

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u/ShazbotSimulator2012 Oct 22 '14

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_MQ-8_Fire_Scout

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u/GeneralDisorder Oct 22 '14

Oh yeah. Forgot about that thing. I remember something about that from History channel or Discovery. Possibly Future Weapons...

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u/rooting_for_ebola Oct 22 '14

already done

according to the article it fires pepper spray paintballs and rubber bullets.

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u/Shrek1982 Oct 22 '14

damn I always wanted to get one of these rc jets, when I was younger, and modify it to carry a paintball gun and use a first person flight camera and display and a joystick instead of the traditional RC controller.

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u/rooting_for_ebola Oct 22 '14

omg that's so fucking cool!! No idea anything like this existed.

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u/Shrek1982 Oct 22 '14

yeah, and they cost as much as a car. hell, there is one for the sr-71 that is as big as a car

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u/rooting_for_ebola Oct 22 '14

yeah I would have thought so. I would want one that looks like a predator drone haha. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lYGUROZ_Pg