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Meet Charlene, The Quadrotor Drone

Submitted by chris cudnoski on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 17:59
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FPS Russia demonstrates a prototype 4-rotor drone equipped with machine gun and self-destruct featuring a 15-foot blast radius:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNPJMk2fgJU

Could this be what Rand is all worked up about?


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Its CG...fake.

Submitted by cobaltz on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 19:57.

Its CG...fake.

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Is this one fake too?

Submitted by chris cudnoski on Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:47.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvkLaa9bogU
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this guy's manager

Submitted by jb.kibs on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 19:41.

was executed...

CGI

Submitted by Verrater on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 19:16.

for now...

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"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."

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Actually I am pretty sure

Submitted by Virginian on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 19:25.

Actually I am pretty sure that is real.(and I have seen it before now) There isnt anything about it that is beyond us or anything. We have model helicopters and what not. To take it step further isnt terribly hard. He might say advanced, but I would say only reasonably and mostly because its basically new and someone had to make it mostly from scratch; most of the from scratch being the programming.

It's definitely fake

Submitted by Verrater on Fri, 03/08/2013 - 08:40.

It has no shadow in static shots, it has horribly fake "muzzle flash" and no recoil when firing. Not to mention that drone is a concept from the Blackops 2.

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2012/04/robert-farago/don-c...

http://mashable.com/2012/04/23/quadrotor-machine-gun-video/

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"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."

I would rather #StandWithRand than #SmolderWithHolder - I can't get #DroneInsurance because of my #PreExistingSedition

Why couldn't the rotors be programmed to anticipate

Submitted by chris cudnoski on Sat, 03/30/2013 - 11:38.

the gun firing? The rear ones could slow down and the front ones speed up or something like that, to keep the craft level?

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Mean Senator Man Doesn't Like

Submitted by chris cudnoski on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 19:42.

Super-Cool Flying death robots...

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