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2022-02-01 Science & Technology

Israel Now Has Potentially Effective Weapon Against Balloon Terror

[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 2022-02-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#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|| 2022-02-01 00:34|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-02-01 10:39|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ That's a measure being installed to keep Plugs from wandering over to Old Town.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-02-01 10:43|| 2022-02-01 10:43|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-02-01 10:47|| Front Page Top

#5 ~~Maybe someone can get a young girl to wear a wig with ricin powder in it~~. No, we don't make those kinds of suggestions here...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-01 10:49|| 2022-02-01 10:49|| Front Page Top

#6 That's the FBI knocking at your door MM!

Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2022-02-01 10:55|| 2022-02-01 10:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Who's to say that's not the FBI's plan?

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-01 11:05|| 2022-02-01 11:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Ask not whom Da Ferret scratches; he scratches thee

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-01 11:05|| 2022-02-01 11:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Though it is more of a Klingon "exploding cigar" kind of op...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-01 11:05|| 2022-02-01 11:05|| Front Page Top

#10 Agents Speciaux Thomson et Thompson

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-01 11:07|| 2022-02-01 11:07|| Front Page Top

#11 Cancelled broadcasts of The View.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-02-01 17:24|| 2022-02-01 17:24|| Front Page Top

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