A video surfaced in recent days of a particularly scary concept — a drone with a shotgun mounted in its airframe. But it doesn’t look like it’s designed to hunt people: the video is a demonstration of a Russian device that’s designed to take on smaller aircraft, namely other drones.
The drone seems to have begun development back in 2016 (via Foxtrot Alpha) from a group of students at the Moscow Aviation Institute. While there have been instances of people mounting firearms (and chainsaws) to drones, there are some drawbacks — the recoil from a gunshot makes it impractical for actually being an effective weapons platform.
According to Defence.ru, the students appear to have solved that problem by developing a stabilizing mechanism to...
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