The Quadrotor Machine Gun

[Uncle Joe]

http://www.military.com/video/guns/machine-guns/the-quadrotor-machine-gun/1581262590001/

What will they come up with next?

[Blue Owl]

1. Doesn't just cut you in half -- cuts you in quarters!

Hail, o glorious MIC... Hail!

[Uncle Joe]

3. It flies like a hovercraft.

[The Magistrate]

2. An Awful Lot Of Effort For a Hundred Rounds, Sir....

[Uncle Joe]

5. Yes sir, I was thinking the same thing but I imagine with

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enough time and advancements in tech, they will be able to dramatically increase the ammo load.

These things will be all over the battlefield.

[The Magistrate]

15. Improve It Enough, Sir, And You Have A Helicopter....

Give it a decent load, enough mass to be stable in a light breeze, you need more power for the lift, more fuel or battery, you are well past man-portable at the least, and so on and so on....

[TheWraith]

12. Maybe, but tell that to the guy who doesn't have to stick his head over the hill.

A small killer robot which can be mass produced is better than getting somebody on the ground shot up, and probably cheaper too when you balance it against the cost of his injuries to both him and for medical treatment.

It's also better than the other alternative, which is shooting a grenade over the hill when you don't know if the people over there are enemy combatants or civilians in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[The Magistrate]

16. You Did Note, Sir, the Targets Were Manikins....

This thing wobbles a great deal, and that is not going to go away at the size. Its few seconds of fire would be highly unlikely to hit anyone. That makes it a waste of weight to carry. The camera is useful, but they already have a number of devices that loft a video-feed over obstacles.

[DJ13]

4. Elite thinking: "That should take care of that pesky OWS problem!"

[Doc_Technical]

6. This guy needs more practice with that Russian accent.

Just what we need, another killing machine
that's looking for Sarah Connor.

[Uncle Joe]

7. I was thinking of those flying craft from "Terminator."

At some point I imagine they will program these things to operate autonomously.

[Phoonzang]

8. Hey guys...

[AsahinaKimi]

9. This thing seems pretty noisy

And once the first shots are fired people are going to scatter, I wonder how good it is chasing down a target that can bob and weave..as for noise..maybe they can make the rotors into whisper mode.. But I have no idea how that is done..You could hear that thing coming a mile away, seems like. IF you are sitting out in the middle of a desert, you sure as hell won't think there are guys coming with leaf blowers.

[Uncle Joe]

11. I believe this one is just a prototype,

I imagine the noise and tracking elements will be refined.

In the beginning, they would probably start out by using these as an advance shock wave to suppress enemy fire just before an assault by ground troops.

[NickB79]

10. Rule #1: Don't believe anything a young Russian with a thick accent tells you on the Internet

Rule #2: Same as above goes double if he's talking about a flying machinegun named Charlene.

[Uncle Joe]

13. I believe Mikhail Kalashnikov was 27 or 28 when the designed the AK 47.

His prototype was named "Mikhtim" I believe Charlene is an improvement.

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21. It's a sly joke/movie reference.

"Charlene" was what Pvt Pyle named his rifle in "Full Metal Jacket".

[SidDithers]

14. FPS Russia is lives in Vermont (or Georgia?), and is a Youtube entrepreneur...

he racks up millions of views shooting all the weapons that get used in First Person Shooter games like Modern Warfare.

And his fans buy t-shirts and coffee cups and all kinds of other shit with his name, or catch phrase or whatever on it. There are some people making tons of money on Youtube. FPS Russia is one of 'em (I think)

He recently teamed up with the boys from Epic Meal Time in a bit of YouTube, internet, cross-promotion.

Edit: just checked. He's got 2.3 million subscribers on his channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/FPSRussia), and his videos have over 410 million views. Advertising on his channel, product placement and merchandising sales mean big bucks.

Sid

[-..__...]

20. He gets to play with some wonderful toys...

He's ranked #12 with number of subscribers...

http://socialblade.com/youtube/top/500

with potential earnings of $1,026,114 (I make no claims for the authenticity or accuracy of these websites).

http://www.statsheep.com/FPSRussia

Ad Week did a story on him...

Dmitri Potapoff, a “Professional Russian” YouTube persona, has a gamer’s dream gig: getting paid to shoot guns. Big guns.

The man pulling the trigger—reportedly an American named Kyle Myers—declined to be interviewed out of character, and even then only via email. But as Potapoff, toting heavy-duty weapons of all kinds and a somewhat convincing accent, he hosts a live-action series dedicated to displaying the power of various firearms. His show, FPSRussia, has more than 1.6 million subscribers, making it the 16th most followed channel on YouTube. One highlight of his shtick: Potapoff gleefully delights in blowing away the likeness of Justin Bieber.

http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/marketing-fake-accent-and-real-guns-134795

[intaglio]

17. Hmm, Fake

The dummies all had planted charges, on the initial dummy hit the gun seemed not to line up on the target (too high), the wall behind the "dinner party" took no damage except from exploding dummies and neither did the table the one apparent hit was debris from a previous explosion.

The barrel seemed to be 7.62 and the weapon itself tube fed. Perhaps people from another forum could enlighten us but I don't think so. At the end the explosion in the car was way out of line for an expensive, experimental piece of equipment.

Then 30 mph? 440 yd ceiling? I doubt it. The device seemed to be at the upper end of it's load limit.

Now how to fake it. Slave a propane "gun" on the UAV to the trigger on a full auto machine gun, have the real operator telling the gun handler when the camera is about lined up. Trigger dets in the dummies and the gas can whenever you want

[montanto]

18. totally fake.

[bluedigger]

19. I see your quadrotor, and counter it with a shotgun.

That's just a dangerous toy.