Grenade Drones

[August]

It was just a matter of time.


Loaded into a conventional grenade launcher, the low-cost 40mm munition was shown off at an arms conference in Florida last month.
Shaped like an oversized bullet, once fired the Drone-40 deploys four rotors that help it stay aloft.
The gadget can reportedly fly for 12 minutes or hover for 20, allowing it to loiter in the sky for ambushes. Multiple drones can be launched at once to swarm enemies.
With a range of six miles and a cruising speed of 45 miles per hour, the weapon is designed to add range and punch to scenarios where infantry would otherwise be outranged and outmatched.



https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/9285829/drone-grenade-flying-range-ambush/

[Jimbuna]

I'm surprised they haven't already been created/invented.

[Catfish]

How great. But why destroy the drone with it. Add a cheap remote control with a lttle rocket, the perfect terrorist weapon.
Add some AI to it and humans will not have to be killed personally by others.
They can 'sleep' everwhere and only wake in the presence of people. Active mines, so to speak.
Maybe create AIs that will have the potential to wipe out the pest of this planet (humans). Win-win.

[Mr Quatro]

They already have drones that can fire multipule rounds of paint balls in a rapid session ... I'm sure a bright young man somewhere could figure out a way to replace the paint balls with bullets. :yep: