- A similar drone 'may appear in the next Call of Duty game'
By Ted Thornhill
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Missile-carrying robot drones have been used for years by the U.S Army - but they’re deployed against large targets and need a runway to take off from.
Now a new YouTube video shows that in the future, drones could also carry out the close-combat duties of foot soldiers.
In the clip ‘FPSRussia’, whose Call of Duty videos and real-life weapon demonstrations have earned him a cult following, shows off a quadrotor â€" a mini helicopter with four rotors - outfitted with a machine gun.
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Air we go: FPSRussia demonstrates a hover drone outfitted with a machine gun
The machine is controlled by a tablet computer and FPSRussia explains that a camera on front of the quadrotor gives him a ‘birds’ eye view’ of the target.
It’s capable of flying at 30mph and at an altitude of a quarter of a mile, but for the demonstration, FPSRussia takes the drone a short distance away to a group of life-size dolls positioned on a slope.
The machine gun is capable of firing 100 rounds a minute â€" and it’s not long before the figures are completely destroyed.
Heat is on: The clip shows the gun's muzzle flash as we see the drone's point of view
Explosive: The drone hovers over the remains of the dummies
A huge muzzle flash leaps across the screen when we see the drones’ view.
Next, FPSRussia shows off the machine’s ability to get into a tight spot and flies it through the window of a mocked-up room.
There four dummies sitting around a tablet are destroyed while FPSRussia stands by at a safe distance.
He explains that the quadrotor is a prototype â€" but may well become a battlefield reality in the future.
Similar-sized drones are already in use by U.S police forces to carry out surveillance and fitting them with machine guns is clearly not difficult to engineer.
Tantilisingly for Call of Duty players, he also hints that a flying quadrotor machine gun could feature in the next installment of the game.
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It is a prototype 'con job', but feasible, as long as you don't need to change a clip and fly for more than 10 minutes. Also the dummies have been packed with explosives to make it look far more realistic.
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His name is Kyle Myers and he's taken you for a ride. CGI and a plastic barrel end and the DM believes it.
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As always, have nice day
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Very obvious fake. Very little investigative journalism these days. All the news now just repeats what they have read or told to report.
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lovely and deluded CGI - tut tut tut
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"A bit like WW1 then when the British army would set up batteries of watercooled Lewis guns and have them firing on the German lines nonstop for days on end." - Hague, The Chateaux, 23/4/2012 21:26 The Lewis gun was a drum fed air cooled weapon. I think you mean the water cooled Lewis gun which in an action in August 1916, the British Army's 100th Company of the Machine Gun Corps fired their ten Vickers guns continuously for twelve hours. Using 100 new barrels, they fired a million rounds without a single breakdown. Not quite days on end but pretty impressive nonetheless.
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When it flies over penguins will it make them look up and fall over.
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Obviously fake. Unlikely scenario (self destructing thousands of pounds worth of quadcopter? Really?) Desktop-PC quality CGI - good but not convincing - explosive detonations in place of hits by sub machine gun rounds and the fact that he's not really controlling it with the iPad like device when he's pretending to do exactly that. Above all it's a poorly disguised viral ad for CoD video game.
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FPS Russia makes awesome videos. Have enjoyed them for a long time.
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A bit like WW1 then when the British army would set up batteries of watercooled Lewis guns and have them firing on the German lines nonstop for days on end.
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