I Want: A sniper rifle-equipped robo-copter

Posted by Douglas Charles on April 20th, 2009 at 3:00 pm

In the past I have shown you various tools that I want in order to keep people and pets off my lawn, but this is the best one yet. And sure, I’ve shown you a RC helicopter with a .45 handgun attached, but this ‘Autonomous Rotorcraft Sniper System (ARSS)’ is an actual unmanned helicopter armed with a .338-caliber rifle. Yep, a real helicopter. This totally kicks the crap out of that RC one I wanted before…

Now, hooked up to the underside of a Vigilante 502 UAV, the ‘copter handles all the flying by itself while a remote operator lines up each shot using — of all things — an Xbox 360 controller.

I could totally rule the neighborhood with this bad boy. I mean, I kick ass on Xbox already so how hard could it be to master?

(Source: Popular Mechanics via DVICE)

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