“riot control” octocopter with guns and lasers …

Coming soon to a legislative jurisdiction near you?

Skunk drone can fire 80 pepper-spray bullets per second … and other stuff.

“Armed with four hopper-fed pneumatic “markers”—high-pressure carbon-fiber airguns capable of pumping out up to 20 paintballs, pepper-spray capsules, or similarly sized projectiles per second—the Skunk has a potential combined rate of fire of 80 projectiles per second. The Skunk can carry up to 4,000 projectiles in varying mixes. According to marketing materials by the unmanned aircraft’s manufacturer, South Africa-based Desert Wolf, the highest rate of fire “will only be used in an extreme ‘Life threatening situation.'”

Full story at arstechnica

    
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St. Bernard
St. Bernard
10 years ago

Ithaca 12 ga.trumps plastic!

FarmerDave
FarmerDave
10 years ago

It’s a much bigger target than those little drones.