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Varta Put a Shotgun on a Drone. Ukraine's Frontlines Say It Works
- tim333 7mo ago$300 add on - see it in action https://x.com/saintjavelin/status/2039672658086744566 https://x.com/saintjavelin/status/2039672658086744566 It's recoilless with two cartridges firing in opposite directions. It can also work autonomously from 126m. Very cunning this Ukranian tech.
- MisterTea 7mo agoFrom the pictures the shot gun appears to be more of a "zip gun" - a home made/improvised gun. The barrel is a tube while the shells seem to have some kind of squib or electric match replacing the shells percussion cap. That removes the weight of a mechanical gun mechanism with firing pin. This feels like a case for moving towards electronic firing case-less ammo perhaps?
- tim333 7mo agoApparently it's one of these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_gun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_gun with two cartridges firing in opposite directions.
- bell-cot 7mo agoNot to rain on the parade...but this is innovation with a very small "i". Aircraft using guns against each other was SOP in WWI, and they were already using recoilless (in the air) back then.
- tim333 7mo agoYeah but it's cheap and doesn't need putting pilots up there. The: >When a Russian recon drone enters the zone, the system vectors an interceptor to chase it down and destroy it, without requiring a human operator to manually fly the engagement. thing didn't happen much in WW1.
- bell-cot 7mo agoYeah - in WWI, autonomous weapons were mostly mines (land or naval). OTOH, fire-and-forget missiles have been around for half a century or so. Bigger picture: Yes, obviously this is a good idea. My take is that it should be graded purely on how well they've implemented it - with no hype, and 0 extra credit points for "innovation".