Israel Is Buying Drones That Fly With Machine Guns - Jalopnik

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Israel Is Buying Drones That Fly With Machine Guns
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Aerial drones like quadcopters can often maneuver more easily in small spaces than the tracked ground robots of the sort that the Dallas police used. But physics does not allow the easy integration of a machine gun on a small aerial drone that also has ...

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[mozquito1]

The kick could be factord in. It's would just be flight time. Such drones would have to be strike capability not sentry unless they really improve battery times.
Personally I think giving a machine a gun is not acceptable. It's not accountable.

 

[yay]

totally misleading headline. while a machine gun could conceivably produce enough recoil to lift a uav off the ground, it couldn't carry enough ammunition to fly for very long, so it doesn't fly with machine guns. they would have to add propellors or something.


uzi on rc heli is a trope of cheapo 80s action movies. not new. youtube has got guns on quads going back years.

it's just a headline to mess with people who have no imagination. put imagination on a quad, you could mess people up.