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Just put auto flight correction software on them. They shoot a large caliber gun, start flipping from recoil and their software corrects for it. It means they need to right themselves and reacquire their target each time but that shouldn’t be an issue for a drone.
Alternately: 360 no-scope such that firing causes the somersault to stop.
I’d imagine the shock loading into the drone’s structure would soon damage it if it was powerful enough to flip it. You’d need a significant damper to spread the shock out over a longer period. Alternatives are either recoilless rifles as suggested or something more akin to rockets, basically a tube that’s open at both ends, with a round that has enough propellant to fire without the need for a breech, and electronic ignition.
Could one hypothetically make a single shot gun as as cheap and simple as possible so as to be disposable, mount it by some kind of claw grabber type device that can adjust pressure, and then loosen the grip until it’s just barely being held in place before firing, so that instead of the recoil force transferring into the drone, it just yeets the gun out of the drone’s grip instead? Could have a drone with multiple grippers in order to have multiple shots before needing to be reloaded.
I guess you could, although the gripper would add a bit of mass to the drone. You still lose some energy from the round into the yeeted barrel, but not as much as having an open breech. Depending on the mass of the projectile vs the mass of the barrel that could be a worthwhile trade-off.
So what you want is drones that
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Have propulsion and
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Are able to shoot.
Here’s my joined solution for both:
Pros:
- jetpack
- joyride
Cons:
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