Firing of rifle rifle rifle in a demonstration – the target is on the right
A new Ukraine video shows their latest weapon: an intercept drone armed with two hunting guns. Previous videos had shown such drones that explode Russian Quadcopter Russian Mavic bombs from the sky. Now we see technical ingenuity after this deception of heaven.
Fighting the blow
As anyone who has ever shot a 12-guage ever knows, they pack a lot of strokes. After Newton’s law on maintaining the moment, if you throw a lot of bullets forward at high speed, the rifle and rifles have been proportionally pushed back.
This is a challenge for anyone who wants to mount a firearm in a small drone. Return is enough to overthrow a wooden course and can make the operator lose the attention of the target. Worse, sudden strain can damage the air frame and a heavy mountain is needed to absorb the forces involved.
The Tikad Sniper System used a complex arrangement of robotic weapons to absorb recoil
Some developers simply acknowledge that recoil will be a matter, as seen in a video of a rifle armed drone Tested by chinse police. Others have designed complex systems to oppose it. The Israeli system Tikad has a weapon located in six robotic wings that automatically bend to compensate for the backwardness and keep it directed towards the target. Spanish drone sniper system Baduga has gyro-stabilization to oppose Recail.
In Ukraine, both sides have tried to mount firearms in the recoil drone softened by an older technology. Small weapons historian Matthew Moss conducted an analysis of a Russian project on his website The Amouher’s Bench. This began a counterbalance back at the same time when the shell was fired ahead, a technique that MESS dates from the 1910s and the recocillass weapons developed by Commander Clerand Davis of the US Navy.
Davis anti-submarine weapon mounted on a sea sea. Notice co-co-cut machine to target
Davis tried to experimentally adapt these into the early planes as anti-zeppelin and anti-submarine weapons. They opposed the projectile recoil by firing a buckshot mass filled in fat back. ‘Davis Gun’ was not successful in placing large weapons in biplans. But the design evolved into a series of large weapons of the US Army of the US Army, known as Jeep Mounted Rifles and other light platforms.
The Russian engineering team, which used the same principle, complained that they had interesting difficulties for anyone. They were particularly concerned later to see a similar Ukrainian design in action, bringing down their drones.
A solution back and forward
Some videos of Ukrainian rifle drones have been shown bringing Russian Mavics. The maviks who fall into the grenade are said to be as deadly as FPVs in terms of the number of victims they cause and are difficult to sit with conventional means. An intercept drone to follow and destroy them in close distance is an efficient solution.
In demonstration, a standard cartridge with 12 garages is charged into a fire pipe
The new video shows Shotgun’s drone in close details. The operator loads a shotgun cartridge into a short tube and grabs it in place. This is the standard ammunition of weapons, which a commenter identifies as 12-Mata number 4 with a load of about 25 cartridges with diameter .13 “. Other details are less visible.
“They’re careful not to show too much, but they show it’s electrically turned on,” Moss told me. “It looks like they have removed the original primer from the cartridge.”
The Shotgun tube is supported by a single clip, and has four clips at all. A closer look shows two pairs of back-bearing pipes.
“You can see that there is a fee that fires in the back,” Moss says.
A narrow look indicates that the drone has four shotgun tubes in pairs back-back
In theory using two cartridges that shoot in opposite directions must completely cancel the return if the loads are exactly the same.
“The lack of withdrawal is likely a combination of using another identical cartridge as a counterweight load and the weapons system that is being mounted on a very powerful, sophisticated drone,” Moss says.
A firearm back and forward would be extremely dangerous in other situations. But for a gun fired from a drone, it provides what Moss calls a “simple and elegant” solution to a challenging problem.
Lack of withdrawal means that if the operator is lost with the first blow, or if the target is damaged alone, they can quickly target the second barrel again. And high in the air, the random goal of firing back should not be a matter.
In the video, Shotgun drone fires on a paper target from a range of about 15 meters and seems to be correct with a very dense shot pattern. A pellet should be enough to overthrow a drone. Practically there is no obvious attraction.
Aiming at other targets
Hunting drones can be a useful weapon against the growing number of Russian fiber drones which are controlled through an optical fiber cable and are impossible to block.
The effect of drone drone on a paper target
In principle they can also be used against Earth’s objectives, though drone noise is likely to give people a chance to leave. Also, this is a much larger target, slower than FPV and easier to crash. But a duel between a soldier with an attack rifle and a drone with a shotgun can go the same way … and if the drone operator is lost, they can always get another drone.
Currently, the army drone consists mainly of the head or explosive bombs, with some net weapons. Numerous efforts to camouflage or firearms have produced some visible results. But “Shotgun Rocails” seems to be an effective solution, easy for reusable interceptor and attacking drones. We can see much more of these, with shotguns and other weapons, in the coming months.