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It's a pretty nice setup for assassinations Print a gun, use it, drop it, GOTO 10

by wavefunction 8y ago

matte_black 8y ago
You can do that with a normal gun.
- frio 8y ago
  Sure, but it's a lot harder to take a normal gun through a metal detector.
  - new_age_garbage 8y ago
    You got some plastic bullets then?
    - wavefunction 8y ago
      Stone of sufficient hardness might work, or plastic pellets. It depends where you aim too. A girl was shoot carelessly in the eye with a pellet gun at a drinking party in the woods and had to relearn how to speak and read and walk. There's a whole continuum of damage that can be done by accident or malicious intent.
PeterisP 8y ago
Buy a crate of used cold war surplus pistols or assault rifles and use them as disposable. For a cartel or state actor that's trivial, no need to bother with flimsy plastics.
- deleted 8y ago
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MisterTea 8y ago
> Print a gun, use it, drop it, GOTO 10 I thought the same thing but you have to get up close for it to be of any use so I don't see it being a popular option as it offers less chance of escape. Though, for the average criminal, they are better suited for stick ups.
tcbawo 8y ago
Even scarier: attach it to a drone
- wyoung2 8y ago
  A drone capable of carrying the weight of a useful firearm and dealing with the recoil is a potential weapon in its own right. If you were thinking of a lightweight one-shot deal that sends the drone flying in pieces away from the point of firing according to Newton's third law, then I question the operator's ability to aim it properly. Every minute of angle you're off in your aim at the start is 1 inch of error at 100 yards, and that's if all else is perfect. With a lightweight armed drone lash-up, I think you'd end up with a system with an inherent accuracy measured in whole degrees, not minutes.
  - animal531 8y ago
    The 2nd part is an interesting problem. Print the barrel and drone casing together, so that you can eliminating syncing (/tying) the two together, which should enhance aiming significantly and allow you to link your software aiming to the hardware firing line a lot easier. Of course if the barrel can't turn, then the operator needs to select a body for the drone that matches its height to target, or that can accurately turn the drone body by a few degrees. Otherwise you need a bit of extra hardware that will be able to turn the barrel to a precise number of degrees. After that use a very basic onboard camera to id the target by a human operator. The drone can find the center of mass of the target object (e.g. head sphere), the operator confirms and then the drone merely flies close enough to eliminate missing and fires. The only issue of course being if the target is moving too much or is occluded at any point, at which time you'd need more advanced image recognition, or further operator adjustments.

It's a pretty nice setup for assassinations Print a gun, use it, drop it, GOTO 10

matte_black 8y ago

You can do that with a normal gun.

frio 8y ago
Sure, but it's a lot harder to take a normal gun through a metal detector.
- new_age_garbage 8y ago
  You got some plastic bullets then?
  - wavefunction 8y ago
    Stone of sufficient hardness might work, or plastic pellets. It depends where you aim too. A girl was shoot carelessly in the eye with a pellet gun at a drinking party in the woods and had to relearn how to speak and read and walk. There's a whole continuum of damage that can be done by accident or malicious intent.

PeterisP 8y ago

Buy a crate of used cold war surplus pistols or assault rifles and use them as disposable. For a cartel or state actor that's trivial, no need to bother with flimsy plastics.

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MisterTea 8y ago

> Print a gun, use it, drop it, GOTO 10 I thought the same thing but you have to get up close for it to be of any use so I don't see it being a popular option as it offers less chance of escape. Though, for the average criminal, they are better suited for stick ups.

tcbawo 8y ago

Even scarier: attach it to a drone

wyoung2 8y ago
A drone capable of carrying the weight of a useful firearm and dealing with the recoil is a potential weapon in its own right. If you were thinking of a lightweight one-shot deal that sends the drone flying in pieces away from the point of firing according to Newton's third law, then I question the operator's ability to aim it properly. Every minute of angle you're off in your aim at the start is 1 inch of error at 100 yards, and that's if all else is perfect. With a lightweight armed drone lash-up, I think you'd end up with a system with an inherent accuracy measured in whole degrees, not minutes.
- animal531 8y ago
  The 2nd part is an interesting problem. Print the barrel and drone casing together, so that you can eliminating syncing (/tying) the two together, which should enhance aiming significantly and allow you to link your software aiming to the hardware firing line a lot easier. Of course if the barrel can't turn, then the operator needs to select a body for the drone that matches its height to target, or that can accurately turn the drone body by a few degrees. Otherwise you need a bit of extra hardware that will be able to turn the barrel to a precise number of degrees. After that use a very basic onboard camera to id the target by a human operator. The drone can find the center of mass of the target object (e.g. head sphere), the operator confirms and then the drone merely flies close enough to eliminate missing and fires. The only issue of course being if the target is moving too much or is occluded at any point, at which time you'd need more advanced image recognition, or further operator adjustments.