Russian Shotgun Drone Hunting Drone

[Dougcjohn]

Interesting, and actually well designed in CG and in the bushing within frame to absorb recoil.

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A Russian defense contractor just received the patent for this flying, shotgun-wielding beast. Great.

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[Mrgs1]

Interesting, and actually well designed in CG and in the bushing within frame to absorb recoil.

What would happen if you missed it, the lead shot has to go somewhere?

 

[Dougcjohn]

What would happen if you missed it, the lead shot has to go somewhere?

Note this is Russian development, by a defense contractor.

What happens to pellets, actually the same thing if you hit target. The shot pattern is wide enough that 80% of pellets would fall to earth. Yes, it will fall but the trajectory path isn't far before energy is consumed and pellets drop at gravity.

But on a different angle, I don't think if dispatching a Hunter Drone there would be a concern or focus on pellets, it'd be focused on stopping the target as in any aerial combat.

Here in USA we're probably the only country that hasn't conducted some form of combative maneuvers in peace time. The Russian airspace particularly will change from non-combative to combative, for that matter the Russian / Ukrainian streets will switch to combative in a blink too. Due to environments to react quickly, lengthy warnings have never been practiced much in-country.

Never the less, the pellets would fall to ground.

** Edited ** in reflection, we have had a few USA combative aerial missions but rarely released any ordnance. But in comparison to other countries, ours are practically non-existent. If you traveled into any soviet block country prior to fall of empire, you may not have known it or seen them, but you were being escorted in & out of airports with Migs.

 

[Good time Charlie]

What would happen if you missed it, the lead shot has to go somewhere?

Depending on shot size, it will fall to the ground within about 100-300 yds of where it was fired. Shot pellets lose energy very quickly.

 

[PatR]

After losing velocity anything smaller than 00 becomes more of a nuisance than a threat.

 

[Mrgs1]

What I'm saying is, you couldn't deploy it in a public place.not any western country anyway. Irrelevant about lost energy if you attempt to shoot it when people are say 50 metres away.

 

[Dougcjohn]

What I'm saying is, you couldn't deploy it in a public place.not any western country anyway. Irrelevant about lost energy if you attempt to shoot it when people are say 50 metres away.

Hmmm, it'll definitely be deployed in Eastern block and something similar will probably surface in UK and USA eventually... near future. It'll be driven by defense of threat and justified need to reduce injuries.

Totally different, but in the same justification catagory as using hi-speed chases around public, it may threaten public but justified to prevent a higher level of possible injury.

The tool: shotgun, web net, or short range EMP... it's not the defensive debris falling to earth that's a concern, it's the disabled drone falling to earth.

On a larger scale, UK, France have several times and USA a few times; scrambled fully armed fighters over a city as a defensive action. If fired (or did fire, hmmm) they pose a possibility of large damage or citizen death below.

If the "Govt powers that be" justify the need for killer drones, we'll most likely eventually see them around public gatherings... sitting on the ground in open view next to swat vans.

I view it in reverse direction, defense contractors in all countries wouldn't be developing killer drones and anti-drone weapons if they hadn't received exploratory funds.