And? It’s a war, just leave.
Have they tried ceasing fire and withdrawing?
Are they crying about it? Next they’re going to have friggin laser beams.
So? I mean, they have drones flying explosives directly into combatants, how is this new development noteworthy? At least it’s part of fighting the war…unlike Russians y’know, raping and killing civilians and stuff.
Bet they can take out more russians per hour with a machine gun instead of getting back to fill up with grenades?
Probably a psychological effect too, baam badabambam ratatatata it’s the flying machinegun coming to get you!
Maybe, yeah. War is horrifying. But I’ve seen videos of soldiers desperately trying to dodge drones with charges, or groups of them seeing one dive bombing the truck they’re in at the last second, or people asleep in foxholes getting a grenade dropped down the chimney or next to them. If they manage to kill the drone, however unlikely, they win nothing. They didn’t kill an opponent in a fight. The terror of there’s another drone idling up high that’s gonna zoom in a soon as they’re not looking has got to be awful.
I was wondering about this. Because besides just figuring out how to fire it, dealing with the recoil and the weight of gun and ammunition. What can you reasonably kill without losing the drone?
You need a couple small rounds to down an unarmed target, in the videos, even drone operators a bit behind the front line wear armor, and I don’t believe they’ll have the range to find their way into some kind of base/encampment.
So do they aim them at exposed bits? It should be possible, especially with AI aim assist, and with the reusability might warrant upgrading cameras on the drone to something with enough resolution. But the time to track and aim, even machine assisted, would seem to put the drone at much increased risk.
I also don’t believe they’ll have the equipment for sniping or suppressive fire with the light drones currently in use.
What could they feasibly be used for?
That sounds extremely cool.
Now they should get drones with air to air capibilities
Begun, the drone wars have.
I can’t believe it took this long.
Weight. Guns and bullets are heavy - really heavy, especially if you want to penetrate even light body armor.
I was going to say recoil, but ironically I think that’s the easiest thing to control for with software. It’s predictable, and modern drones are highly maneuverable; it wouldn’t be hard to have the drone software account for recoil when firing bursts. It’d be interesting to see just how accurate you could get shot placement.
And we hope the Ukrainians use them on you <3
How do they fly without the recoil flipping them over?
Lots of things spinning really, really fast.
Align the bore with the center of mass
I bet they develop something close to a .22 recoilless rifle for drone use. I.e. a rifle that shoots both ways at once so it doesn’t have any recoil. And I bet it’s effective beyond anyone’s wildest nightmares.
I would argue slightly higher than centre of mass, as they tilt forward to fly.
Either way, pretty close points and let’s be honest - centre of mass probably is the gun itself.
It’s probably small caliber like 5.56 or 7.62.
Why are the Russians complaining about this? They should not be there in the first place.
If Ukraine develops quadcopters waving glowing spring-loaded uranium dildos, then that’s their business. If the Russians don’t want to get it up their ass then… maybe they shouldn’t be there?!?!
Why are you dying on Ukrainian soil? I don’t understand how Russians are dying on Ukrainian soil?
