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A drone with a white plastic PET cylinder around it to
protect
it from the paintball shots. Programmed to fly any
number of
erratic courses.
Now ok, there's no way, NO way this hasn't been done
already
right? But doing a search I only found a drone equipped
to
FIRE paintballs, but
no reference to a drone specifically
set
up as a target.
Again, I'm positive this has to have been done, I'm just
not
finding it. Any links supplied will result in a WKTE
takedown
of this idea. But if not, wow! Somebody needs to get on
this.
Incidentally, the link showing the effectiveness of the
paintball shooting drone really shows that the future of
close air support is swarms of semi-autonomous gunship
drones. Once these are setup to track and counter attack
any ground based anti aircraft fire there really is no
defense against these.
UPDATE: Real gun alternative. A variation of this would be a
drone trailing a standard paper target that you'd shoot with
a regular gun.
This allows you to actually shoot for as long as you had
cheap paper targets rather than until you ran out of
expensive drones.
Paintball FIRING drone.
https://www.youtube...watch?v=n646mT3LuhU
Looking for one set up specifically as a target. [doctorremulac3, Sep 29 2016]
What's inside?
https://www.youtube...watch?v=KWkHFYPgMpA
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Sep 29 2016]
"Feds crack down on 'shoot a drone' gatherings"
http://www.today.com/video/today/55895105
[beanangel, Sep 29 2016]
[link]
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Depending on your local time zone, this may well be
the best idea of your entire day. [+] |
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I don't know, I was thinking of just basically putting a
PET skirt, the stuff that milk cartons are made of
around it. Have it attached by rubber bands so it has
a little give when it gets hit. |
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I want one of these. Wonder if I can patent it. |
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um I looked up "drone skeet shooting" and found the link |
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If you give up on the drone idea can I have the PET skirt? No need for rubber bands because I already got a lot of give. |
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Wow! Crazy link. Not the fact that they're shooting
down drones that are a lot more expensive than clay
pigeons with shotguns, but that the FAA is shutting
them down because you can't have a commercial
venture that uses drones. What about selling drones?
Isn't that a commercial venture using drones? |
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Has our government gone insane? |
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Oh, yea, right. They have. |
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Paintballing a drone camera is a fantastic idea. Blurring the
eye in the sky without permanant damage. |
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This gives me a totally cool idea to research. |
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Hmm. I'm intrigued. Keep us posted. |
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Yeah the regulation here seems a bit strange.
So, charge them for an expensive bottled water or wine-
tasting and organize the drone shoot as a 'free side event.' |
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Keep it away from airports and such and what's the worry? |
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That 'shoot a drone' article is from 2014. Now in 2016 the
FAA has released regulations for commercial drone use.
From reading a summary I don't see anything that would
prevent this use. Of course if every individual drone needs
to be registered that could increase the cost somewhat.
Hopefully they could arrange registration for a series of
drones. |
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For this idea where the drone is not intended to be
destroyed, there shouldn't be a problem. |
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//Keep it away from airports and such and what's the
worry?// |
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Yea right? I don't get it. |
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//I'm intrigued. Keep us posted// |
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Crap. I want to so much. When this stuff pops into my head out of the blue I have no clue if it's right or not and you guys know all of the stuff that I don't. |
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//Ruston Proctor Aerial Target of 1916 |
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Presuming no connection to proctology? |
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You know, a variation of this would be a drone trailing a
standard paper target that you'd shoot with a regular gun. |
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This allows you to actually shoot for as long as you had
cheap paper targets rather than until you ran out of
expensive drones. |
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