Full Version: real life drones
QUOTE (hobgoblin @ Sep 17 2009, 12:50 AM) 
I saw something about this on Daily Planet (Discovery Channel) a while back and it looked promising.
Dude... There have been things like this for a while... unmanned robotic things are pretty common now. Missile drones, flyers like this, bomb-disposal units, and so on...
QUOTE (Bugfoxmaster @ Sep 17 2009, 04:51 PM)
Dude... There have been things like this for a while... unmanned robotic things are pretty common now. Missile drones, flyers like this, bomb-disposal units, and so on...
Yup, the UK Police have quite a few as well, they dont look quite as awesome as the one linked but still.
http://fightingcrimefromabove.com/uk-polic...illance-camera/
I wonder if a similar design would work underwater.
well the text talked about 3 sizes, with the biggest one being in the order of a small car (about 1,5 tons).
the middle one was the most interesting, as it was described as about 10kg, and could potentially be used as a weapons platform...
and while yes, there have been similar ones in use for a while now, this thing have very few exposed parts.
if the skirt/hood/whatever is made bullet/fragment resistant, it may well be hard to take down unless you can hit it square in the fan...
the middle one was the most interesting, as it was described as about 10kg, and could potentially be used as a weapons platform...
and while yes, there have been similar ones in use for a while now, this thing have very few exposed parts.
if the skirt/hood/whatever is made bullet/fragment resistant, it may well be hard to take down unless you can hit it square in the fan...
QUOTE (hobgoblin @ Sep 18 2009, 03:23 AM)
well the text talked about 3 sizes, with the biggest one being in the order of a small car (about 1,5 tons).
the middle one was the most interesting, as it was described as about 10kg, and could potentially be used as a weapons platform...
and while yes, there have been similar ones in use for a while now, this thing have very few exposed parts.
if the skirt/hood/whatever is made bullet/fragment resistant, it may well be hard to take down unless you can hit it square in the fan...
the middle one was the most interesting, as it was described as about 10kg, and could potentially be used as a weapons platform...
and while yes, there have been similar ones in use for a while now, this thing have very few exposed parts.
if the skirt/hood/whatever is made bullet/fragment resistant, it may well be hard to take down unless you can hit it square in the fan...
Dudes, have you ever seen this? (look for dog bot) A friend of mine showed us this during a robotics seminary here in college. It is supposed to work as an all-terrain pack-mule to carry all the heavy ordnance. In my humble opinion, this will never work.
Here is why: Imagine you are a 3rd world country guerrilla soldier ambushing an "evil american" platoon and you see this freakish thing walking behind them like an abomination from hell. Who do you shoot?
A- the soldiers?
B- that scary thing carrying a lot of stuff that no real pack-mule could ever dream of carrying?
I would go with B.
park a rpg in the bot and change to AK while the soldier gets back up...
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