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Re: another drone attack foiled by American shotgunners! ( we've seen this movie b4)
« Reply #100 on: November 28, 2012, 10:13:20 PM »
Quote from: Doggy Daddy on November 26, 2012, 07:46:24 PM
Blasphemy!  This is APS.  Overkill reigns.

Isn't there a song about that?

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We shall over kill, We shall over kill someday, for its deep in my heart, I do believe, We shall over kill some day.
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Re: another drone attack foiled by American shotgunners! ( we've seen this movie b4)
« Reply #101 on: November 28, 2012, 11:21:24 PM »
Quote from: scout26 on November 24, 2012, 03:09:23 PM
Shoulder held PVC pipe?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRSeYh5wPm8&feature=share&list=UUMIBETrCnwBJHCKcVuRNQTg

This is why it's not practical. Wait to the end and watch the flight. 

I built the exact same thing in high school, save not as much visual appeal with some 5" PVC drainpipe and an Estes model rocket with it's fins cut to fit, and all you get is about 50-100' of straight flight, then it goes crazy.

Granted, one might do better with angled spin-fins, and a different weight distribution and center of pressure etc. but hitting a RC airplane or quad-rotor drone with a model rocket and a shotshell to provide "flak" would be as big an exercise in blind luck as it gets.





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Re: another drone attack foiled by American shotgunners! ( we've seen this movie b4)
« Reply #102 on: November 29, 2012, 12:00:39 AM »
Quote from: Strings on November 28, 2012, 01:47:16 AM
>I was actually thinking of assaulting their drone.  At the least you could paint their camera.  Not sure if paint balls could damage it or cause it to crash.<

Paintballs to a lens would likely cause at least a lil damage.

Causing it to crash? Not so sure...
I bet you could crash a copter, especially if you found some paint balls that used a heavier, stickier "paint" that messed with the rotors. 
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Re: another drone attack foiled by American shotgunners! ( we've seen this movie b4)
« Reply #103 on: November 29, 2012, 12:52:40 AM »
Going in the opposite direction for a simple solution is to use tear away drag lines.

Take your little RC craft, multicopter, plane, etc. Now, make some drag lines, basic cotton string, small fishing weight at one end, and a paper tear away tab at the other. Tape a few of these drag lines to your craft of choice and simply overfly the offending multicopter slowly and allow the lines to entangle the props.
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Re: another drone attack foiled by American shotgunners! ( we've seen this movie b4)
« Reply #104 on: November 29, 2012, 09:06:03 AM »
Quote from: makattak on November 28, 2012, 08:11:36 AM
Don't we have some computer engineers who work in aerospace?

I have to think that a semi-autonomous "drone-killing" drone would be a... useful... project.

90% of what I do is FAA cert stuff  =(
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Re: another drone attack foiled by American shotgunners! ( we've seen this movie b4)
« Reply #105 on: November 29, 2012, 09:14:35 AM »
Quote from: kgbsquirrel on November 29, 2012, 12:52:40 AM
Going in the opposite direction for a simple solution is to use tear away drag lines.

Take your little RC craft, multicopter, plane, etc. Now, make some drag lines, basic cotton string, small fishing weight at one end, and a paper tear away tab at the other. Tape a few of these drag lines to your craft of choice and simply overfly the offending multicopter slowly and allow the lines to entangle the props.

Effective: Yes.

But fails to meet the APS minimum requirements for over-engineering and boominess.

 =D ;) :P
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Re: another drone attack foiled by American shotgunners! ( we've seen this movie b4)
« Reply #106 on: November 29, 2012, 11:58:17 AM »
Quote from: scout26 on November 29, 2012, 09:14:35 AM
Effective: Yes.

But fails to meet the APS minimum requirements for over-engineering and boominess.

 =D ;) :P

Use det cord instead.
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Re: another drone attack foiled by American shotgunners! ( we've seen this movie b4)
« Reply #107 on: November 30, 2012, 11:34:11 AM »
Quote from: Fly320s on November 29, 2012, 11:58:17 AM
Use det cord instead.

Almost there....

How about using decorative fish net made of det cord?  =D
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Re: another drone attack foiled by American shotgunners! ( we've seen this movie b4)
« Reply #108 on: November 30, 2012, 11:47:26 AM »
I just had a thought, isn't there already a "sentry gun" that uses airsoft?

Why not find a way to loft that? Then all you have to do is get close enough to the other drone to set off the sentry gun's sensors?

Autonomous firing, controlled flying.
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Re: another drone attack foiled by American shotgunners! ( we've seen this movie b4)
« Reply #109 on: November 30, 2012, 02:57:01 PM »
Quote from: makattak on November 30, 2012, 11:47:26 AM
I just had a thought, isn't there already a "sentry gun" that uses airsoft?

Why not find a way to loft that? Then all you have to do is get close enough to the other drone to set off the sentry gun's sensors?

Autonomous firing, controlled flying.

See previous mention of airsoft auto turrets.
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Re: another drone attack foiled by American shotgunners! ( we've seen this movie b4)
« Reply #110 on: November 30, 2012, 03:09:19 PM »
Quote from: kgbsquirrel on November 30, 2012, 02:57:01 PM
See previous mention of airsoft auto turrets.

Should have known someone would beat me to it.
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