Official Derailed thread... Wait, what?

Is there some limit to the size of drones like with the historical naval treaty?

No.

My brother, now a retired test pilot used to say that the best air superiority plane would be to take a big ass passenger plane and fill the wings with air to air missiles. Be able to shoot down 50 enemy planes with one salvo, imagine that.

And, if it was war, you'd just confiscate a few from civilian airlines for free, install drone controls and so on.

Since it was so big you could easily install multiple GAU-8 guns as well.

 

Lol, if only it was that easy. You should see all the paperwork they have to do just to install those skinny little winglets on passenger jets. Even one weapon pylon just isn't happening without a totally new wing. It was a big freaking deal to build those 737s with bomb bays for the Navy

 

Came across this pic today, just had to share it. xD

 

made entirely of Doge! (no bacon was harmed in the making of this sausage)

 

But its empty weight is a little over half the empty weight of the a10. The issue to me isnt so much the size as they try to build drones to be lightweight which for an aircraft is a bad thing when firing a powerful gun. Its just how much thrust its generating.

 

The moment when you're describing the boss to an Ace Combat game.

 

no. XD

 

Hollywood physics. Shotgun's throwing people meters backwards and so forth. People in Hollywood think there's 100x more kinetic energy in shotgun shot than in an assault rifle because the recoil is felt by user. Yet neither one can make the target 'jump' at all.

If they really wanted to have a cannon based drone, they could indeed just add lots of weight, for example fuel.

Just, it looks like a couple of missiles and having a light drone is the shit. Light drone - smaller target, longer flight duration.

While the gun technically allows for more targets to be engaged it turns the drone into an assault craft rather than how they're used currently. It's a nice thing to have a constant air superiority and capacity to hit a target instantly by having armed drones constantly over target area. For a gun drone there's more of a time window to consider.

 

yeah... that's not a shotgun, that's more like one of these

though, you're right that the kinetic energy would still probably not be enough to pick him up, most likely just knock him over, but that's not nearly as amusing.

this makes me a little happy, handmade steampunk handcannon

 

Handcannons are cool.

One of the inherent flaws with recoil throwing the guy firing a weapon into the air is that you'd have to be holding the weapon below your center of mass and aim below horizon, preferably ~45 degrees or more so you're actually aiming at roughly the distance that is close the the height of the weapon.

Scifi has some of the coolest (imho) actual realistic scenarios such as use of high energy ion thrusters as offensive weapon and so. Basically a high energy mass driver can have propulsion potential if the energy is derived from a source like antimatter and the ship size in relation to the gun is very small, such as in a fighter craft with antimatter powered mass driver.

 

Another passenger plane disappears this year. There have been at least 3 instances of planes gone missing, one of which was found in the desert.

You know what the legends told begins with disappearing of passenger planes?

X-Com. The aliens are coming... Soon your hometown may be the battleground between international X-Command and the alien invaders.

And ffs hope that they don't choose to ignore a terror mission near you...

 

All I understand is I get to have sex with hot green aliens.

 

It is what you make of it.