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| Israel Now Has Potentially Effective Weapon Against Balloon Terror |
| 2022-02-01 |
| [StrategyPage] An Israeli arms firm, Smart Shooter, has developed SMASH Dragon, an armed hexacopter that carries a stabilized gun platform that can be armed with a 5.56mm assault rifle or a 7.62mm sniper rifle. SMASH Dragon uses the same SMASH 2000 computerized rifle scope Smart Shooter introduced in 2018, but with addition of a new digital camera with zoom that enables the operator to search for and identify targets at longer ranges day or night, or set the system to automatically scan for certain types of targets. Armed with the 7.62mm rifle, SMASH Dragon can hit stationary targets over 300 meters distant with the first shot. ...Israel found that a locally made device, SMASH 2000 could do the job once its software had been modified to handle fire kites, fire balloons and, it turned out, quadcopters. |
| Posted by:Lord Garth |
| #11 Cancelled broadcasts of The View. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-02-01 17:24 |
| #10 Agents Speciaux Thomson et Thompson |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-02-01 11:07 |
| #9 Though it is more of a Klingon "exploding cigar" kind of op... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-02-01 11:05 |
| #8 Ask not whom Da Ferret scratches; he scratches thee |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-02-01 11:05 |
| #7 Who's to say that's not the FBI's plan? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-02-01 11:05 |
| #6 That's the FBI knocking at your door MM! |
| Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 2022-02-01 10:55 |
| #5 |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-02-01 10:49 |
| #4 ^ just equip them with the capability to beam animatronic images of 8 year-old girls to Plugs's room and he'll follow his sniffer-bliss safely at home |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-02-01 10:47 |
| #3 /\ That's a measure being installed to keep Plugs from wandering over to Old Town. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-02-01 10:43 |
| #2 ^ Soon to be patrolling above that razor-wire barrier lining the periphery around the Capitol |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-02-01 10:39 |
| #1 Huh. Seems this would be able to shoot people in the forehead just as easily. Boy, aren't you excited for the future in which our ruling class keeps us down with robot swarms? And if we protest that they're oppressing us, they just send out the drones to mass murder us? Yay, I can't wait! |
| Posted by: Sheter the Lesser9291 2022-02-01 00:34 |
