The music doesn’t help. Is there a version where we hear the audio?
Fuckin Badass!
Guys, smaller cal and faster fire rate, and have it pointing stright down.
Imagine a big swarm of these.
To reduce recoil it really needs something like a controllable fan in the horizontal axis. Using a methodology with variable pitch, the fan can rapidly increase counter-thrust during fire as the rotational energy remains constant, the motor just maintains the speed of the fan without having to accelerate it up from zero RPM.
Although if it generates some forward thrust when ‘off’ it will hamper aiming. So then a smaller fan is needed to counter this in hover.
Which of course is extra weight.
A solution may be that the whole thing is a winged drone, with VTOL capability and a short, several minutes of hover time. It saves energy getting there, but expends that in hover. A pusher propeller at the rear provides forwards thrust during firing using variable blade pitch. To maintain position when not firing, the VTOL part is slightly vectored forwards. In this way, the forwards thrust is countered by the VTOL system, and can increase to overcome the recoil.
Other approaches might eject gasses similar to how the gas is produced inside the bullet. To increase the thrust generated, a principle called thrust augmentation draws in surrounding air, increasing mass flow, therefore the the thrust (kg) per mass of propellant is increased.
A more sophisticated design can use deflector vanes and ducted lift fans for the hover, these can be pretty efficient. Coaxial designs also can vector quickly.
But used with a sniper rifle, and a fire control system (that already exists for sniper rifles) that fires only when the hit is calculated to happen when the cross hairs are correctly over the target, adjusted for other variables, a drone can take a shot and it doesn’t matter about momentary recoil.
We are living in the future. Others are dying in it.
You know you’re totally fucked when you see a drone approaching your position with smaller camera drones flying beside it to record it.
Awesomeness, thy name is Baba Yaga.
I can’t wait for wars to be mainly or solely fought by robots
Jesus christ, is /that/ what the Baba Yaga drone is? I thought it was a reconnaissance/repeater sort of deal 🤣 Gotta hand it to Ukraine, turning battlefields upside down by strapping LMG’s and RPG warheads to $200 Walmart drones. Gold Medal robotics team for sure!
Guard Dog
I honestly think this has a lot of potential, if aiming can be worked out. Maybe something with an IR laser
Wonder if flywheel moment/gyro stabilisers would be useful for drones with firearms.
Only a matter of time until drones have sniper range and accuracy
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The music doesn’t help. Is there a version where we hear the audio?
Fuckin Badass!
Guys, smaller cal and faster fire rate, and have it pointing stright down.
Imagine a big swarm of these.
To reduce recoil it really needs something like a controllable fan in the horizontal axis. Using a methodology with variable pitch, the fan can rapidly increase counter-thrust during fire as the rotational energy remains constant, the motor just maintains the speed of the fan without having to accelerate it up from zero RPM.
Although if it generates some forward thrust when ‘off’ it will hamper aiming. So then a smaller fan is needed to counter this in hover.
Which of course is extra weight.
A solution may be that the whole thing is a winged drone, with VTOL capability and a short, several minutes of hover time. It saves energy getting there, but expends that in hover. A pusher propeller at the rear provides forwards thrust during firing using variable blade pitch. To maintain position when not firing, the VTOL part is slightly vectored forwards. In this way, the forwards thrust is countered by the VTOL system, and can increase to overcome the recoil.
Other approaches might eject gasses similar to how the gas is produced inside the bullet. To increase the thrust generated, a principle called thrust augmentation draws in surrounding air, increasing mass flow, therefore the the thrust (kg) per mass of propellant is increased.
A more sophisticated design can use deflector vanes and ducted lift fans for the hover, these can be pretty efficient. Coaxial designs also can vector quickly.
But used with a sniper rifle, and a fire control system (that already exists for sniper rifles) that fires only when the hit is calculated to happen when the cross hairs are correctly over the target, adjusted for other variables, a drone can take a shot and it doesn’t matter about momentary recoil.
We are living in the future. Others are dying in it.
You know you’re totally fucked when you see a drone approaching your position with smaller camera drones flying beside it to record it.
Awesomeness, thy name is Baba Yaga.
I can’t wait for wars to be mainly or solely fought by robots
Jesus christ, is /that/ what the Baba Yaga drone is? I thought it was a reconnaissance/repeater sort of deal 🤣 Gotta hand it to Ukraine, turning battlefields upside down by strapping LMG’s and RPG warheads to $200 Walmart drones. Gold Medal robotics team for sure!
Guard Dog
I honestly think this has a lot of potential, if aiming can be worked out. Maybe something with an IR laser
Wonder if flywheel moment/gyro stabilisers would be useful for drones with firearms.
Only a matter of time until drones have sniper range and accuracy