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Microdrones: First A Squirt Gun, Now An Airsoft Gun, Next A BFG9000

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 12 of March , 2008 at 1:00 am

On Monday I wrote about a quad rotor Microdrone mounting a squirt gun, currently in use by the British Transport Police. Today I ran across this video of a quad rotor helicopter with an independently aimable, camera equipped airsoft gun mounted on the top. It doesn’t appear to be a UAV in this configuration, and I’m kinda wondering why they didn’t mount the gun on the bottom of the aircraft. Still, it’s pretty effective looking, and not something I’d particularly want to be in the sights of.

From what I’ve dug up, the quad rotor platform is called the Pegasus (no relation). It can lift a 7 pound payload for 8 minutes, and once version includes a “garage” mounted underneath that can deploy an R/C scout car. More information about that can apparently be found on the RcGroups.com forums, which has been down (for me, at least) for the last few hours. I’ll check back tomorrow, or if you notice anything, feel free to post about it in the comments.

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Category: Hobby

6 Comments

Comment by Finlay Richardson

Made Saturday, 10 of July , 2010 at 2:50 am

i used to be addicted to airsoft a couple of years ago. it is a great past time.,.:

Comment by Jeremiah Ramirez

Made Tuesday, 10 of August , 2010 at 11:07 pm

used to play Airsoft but i stopped after some guy accidentally shot my eye ~

Comment by Avery Nelson

Made Wednesday, 29 of September , 2010 at 11:31 pm

airsoft is so damn addicting and i love to play it all day:`~

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Made Sunday, 7 of November , 2010 at 8:23 am

sometimes you will get hurt if you play too much airsoft, but i really like this game :

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