The recoil looks fine to me. My question is how’s the accuracy?
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The recoil looks fine to me. My question is how’s the accuracy?
Insufficient recoil, certainly isn't a centerfire handgun. Many [most] semi-auto's can't chamber successive rounds without a decent grip or weak wrist. Inertia of slide versus restrained frame assures full ejection of spent case and strips cartridge from magazine.
This armed drone looks to carry a full sized pistol ie 1911, Beretta 92 etc. Whatever pistol, instead of it's standard round 9mm, .45, sure not 10mm or Coonan .357; is I'll bet fitted with a rimfire .22 conversion kit. A full size target .22 would also operate suspended in a drone ie S&W 41, Ruger MK IV etc.
The drone's reaction to recoil shows near perfect straight line evidence of Newton's law. Muzzle rise [handguns] stem from the wrist, effectively an axle or trunnion, below centerline of bore. Countering the effect, Olympic style [free pistol] are peculiarly configured to lower bore centerline with web between thumb and forefinger. The Morini and Hammerli are good examples, but are single shot.
For me, neither S&W 41's or Medalist Browning's in personal collection would be subjected this kind of undignified activity.
Not sure I agree about the rim fire based on the mussel blast, seems pretty big to me even for a LR, but you are spot on about the mounting. I've loosed a few rounds from a 1911 with a 22 barrel/receiver and this has more flash than that...but don't know much of other (larger/older) rim fire rounds. What ever that pistol is it looks to have a 15 round clip. Interesting thought because of the size of the magazine...might be Hornets (center fire) or Winchester magnum which would give that size blast. Definitely a mystery pistol to me...receiver is odd.
Most curios to me would be how they remote triggered it. Even with a 2-4lb pull the mechanism must be light, robust and repeatable. Looks to have a camera/laser below the barrel too which probably adds balance to the lack of muzzle rise we see in stop motion as well as Gyro stabilization built into the drone. 4 rounds in 14 seconds and a ~2-3 foot drop per (flat or not, almost turned into a weed eater) makes me question its accuracy...floating target or not.
Thanks Pat, you get that.
After weeks of broken sleep from a feral I loose my tolerance (as it becomes torture): at least these days (almost 4 decades on) authorities are trying to do something about desexing cats & dogs before the problem gets worse. We have even reintroduced dingos into fenced areas of 1000's of hectacres of bushland with similar results as in the US with wolves. In our areas, foxes & ferals have disappeared & small marsupials have grown in numbers. Can't do it in suburbia so traps sometimes work. To see your dog ripped by a feral is no fun either. Where I live now wild dogs are as much a problem as cats and both are usually too smart for traps.
Joe South=walk a mile.
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Russian VTOL UAV with semiautomatic shotgun.
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These drone-mounted weapons are rather disturbing. But if it's being done to shoot down OTHER drones, well then, that's perfectly reasonable.
Reply to post #38 that is one scary piece of kit the possibilities of its deployment in a crowded outdoor gathering is frightening to say the least.