Didn't look like he went that far with it, just back and forth around that trestle.
Impressive flying. And while certainly not "proper", at least he picked something to mess with that if there were a collision, the non-drone object wouldn't get a scratch. LOL
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Posts: 16315 | Location: Harrison, AR | Registered: February 05, 2004
Originally posted by AllenInWV: ...at least he picked something to mess with that if there were a collision, the non-drone object wouldn't get a scratch. LOL
The engineer begs to differ.
Set the controls for the heart of the Sun.
Posts: 8793 | Location: Flown-over country | Registered: December 25, 2008
Ok, hate to break up the fun with a serious question, but given the capabilities and range of these things, what's to stop these from being rigged with explosives and used as remote delivery systems, say into a stadium full o people and so forth?
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Posts: 6395 | Location: Mogadishu on the Mississippi | Registered: February 26, 2009
Originally posted by slabsides45: Ok, hate to break up the fun with a serious question, but given the capabilities and range of these things, what's to stop these from being rigged with explosives and used as remote delivery systems, say into a stadium full o people and so forth?
Nothing. IS conducted over 100 kinetic drone attacks against coalition forces during a single month of intense fighting in Mosel. They’re doing it now in Raqqa. It’s when not if we see similar styles of attack here.
You could dump the drones out of an AC-130 by the hundreds or thousands and relay their signals back to a bunker somewhere stateside. You'd have rooms full of 18 year olds with fast-twitch gaming reflexes piloting them. A single pilot, with the aid of computers guidance software, could probably pilot more than one drone.
Some of the drones would have explosive charges used to open windows, doors, and roofs. Others would be loaded with small caliber projectile weapons. They could swarm a small city or village and individually assassinate insurgents fighters while minimizing collateral damage.
Insurgents that are hardened against the small arms fire carried by drones, would then have to deal with a missile strike or canon fire from the loitering AC-130 gunship.
When it's all done, drones just fly up high and land back in the the hanger of the gunship.
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Were I thinking of imparting maximum casualties against a larger force while conserving my smaller group's numbers, this is what I'd do. I hope someone smarter than me, somewhere in the US, is figuring out ways to prevent this from happening.
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Posts: 6395 | Location: Mogadishu on the Mississippi | Registered: February 26, 2009
Originally posted by Aeteocles: You'd have rooms full of 18 year olds with fast-twitch gaming reflexes piloting them. A single pilot, with the aid of computers guidance software, could probably pilot more than one drone.
The fire control system in a 40 year old Tomcat can guide 6 Phoenix missiles to 6 different targets at the same time. With modern computers, hell yes.
Posts: 7650 | Location: Idaho | Registered: February 12, 2007
Future of warfare right there. You could dump the drones out of an AC-130 by the hundreds or thousands and relay their signals back to a bunker somewhere stateside.
Closer than you think...swarm drones launched from F/A-18s. Their swarm sounds (I cue'd up to it in the video) are spookier, IMO, than Jericho Trumpets.
Attached small explosives to them and boom - have a nice day