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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 lightw

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.