Mr. Sweeney!
Mr. Sweeney?
...
Buh-blam!
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Mr. Sweeney!
Mr. Sweeney?
...
Buh-blam!
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Supernatural Cowboy
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More like "Put down the shooter! You're nicked!"
The Sweeney
Paranormal Investigator
Just a ghost in the wind, a mirage on the sand . . .
"There never was a golden age. It was only ever iron." Lord Hetwar The Hallowed Hunt, p204
"Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colours are real, too." Lady Ijada, ibid, p230.
Two good maxims for running campaigns, I think.
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Millennial Master
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not exactly a gun, but...
"That was good, Daddy"
Left Hook of Justice, Esq
Senior Member
Wow, did they really need the Indiana Jones style musical accompaniment for that?
Maybe in the future they can just make these things compatible with game console controllers, and we won't even need an enlisted military. We can just hire 16 year olds.
It is unclear why the bear, which was wearing ice skates at the time, attacked Mr Potapov. The bear was later shot by police. Deadly attacks are rare in the country's circuses, which often train bears to wear skates and play ice hockey.
--snippet from news article
Esper Weapon
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You mean like in Ender's Game?Originally Posted by megaplayboy
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Left Hook of Justice, Esq
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Pretty much.
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It is unclear why the bear, which was wearing ice skates at the time, attacked Mr Potapov. The bear was later shot by police. Deadly attacks are rare in the country's circuses, which often train bears to wear skates and play ice hockey.
--snippet from news article
Luck is one of my skills.
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Luck is one of my skills.
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Systems I use: D&D 3.5, Pathfinder, Star Wars SAGA, Star Wars Revised Core Rules, GURPS 4th Edition, Shadowrun 4th Edition, Monte Cook's World of Darkness, New World of Darkness, Spycraft 2.0, d20 Modern, Alternity, Savage Worlds, HERO 6th Edition, and Mutants & Masterminds 2nd Edition.
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Millennial Master
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Ooh, they duct-taped a hand grenade to an RC plane!not exactly a gun, but...
I'll admit that the roll-up wings are pretty cool, but overall, I don't see much there that couldn't be done with off-the-shelf hardware and software. I guess I'm just underestimating the time involved in doing things for the government, but it surprises me that this kind of thing has taken so long to show up.
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To any god or government.
Mad Hero System Genius
Member
I wonder how much loiter time that thing has? I can see it being useful for squad- or platoon-level recon as well as a grenade delivery system.
Millennial Master
Member
There are several similar concepts out there. The Switchblade, iirc, has already seen combat use. One company has one they are trying to sell that iirc is an inflatable plastic wing and body, with a warhead basically derived from 2 40mm grenade warheads. A quick puff of CO2, and...
I am not sure something similar that drops/ejects/shoots a small grenade would not be better, but there is a simplicity in having one simple design. It just seems to me that a similar design, with a little payload that can be attached just before launch if desired, might be able to be more flexible. Now, it would probably (unless designed by Israeli, not US company) cost 25 times as much... But in the long run, I could see a design that where just prior to launch a door can be flipped open/taken off, and a module inserted. Extra battery/fuel, Secondary sensor, weapon payload, theoretically it could be very flexible. the baseline would just have a camera and broadcast capability. It would be say 8-16 ounces lighter, and would have a bit longer range/endurance than with a grenade. I wonder if a laser designator package could be made that small to fit in such a payload bay.
It might be possible to make the whole uav cheap enough that one could still use it as a hit to kill weapon if desired.
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Very High Powered Superhero
Member
These things will be deployed. And the Secret Service is going to have conniptions...
I owe Michael Hopcroft MORE Rep.
Triple Millennial Master
Senior Member
Wait til the Frisbee Grenades come back into style.If anything that will end up as one hell of a surprised dog at the receiving end of things.
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Snarkosaurus Rex
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I always wondered why helical magazines weren't more popular. That's the first one I've seen that's underbarrel, though.
...and that's when the destruction began.
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