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 TheCustomLime wrote:
You fools are thinking too inside the box! What we can do is... RC Dogfights. Just mount a small calibre machine gun on a RC plane and reenact the Battle of Britain to your heart's content.

Capital Thinking young man!

It has to blast "Flight of the Valkyries" While doing it.

 Ouze wrote:
This was great publicity stunt by Amazon, just in time for some of the busiest shopping days of the year.

As a stockholder, I'm quiet pleased with this.

Saw this; had to post it

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And this one is just for you whembly

Nice one D!

I was confused by that, I was thinking "How are we using eagles to kill people and deliver packages?"

Tibbsy wrote:
Saw this; had to post it

Have an exalt for that best laugh in a while that ive had

I don't want Arnold Schwartznet delivering my wick man.

Target practice!

I thought this was an onion article the first time I saw it. Very good idea, since people just order nonsense like nail files and call of duty games.

 Captain Fantastic wrote:
Target practice!

I thought this was an onion article the first time I saw it. Very good idea, since people just order nonsense like nail files and call of duty games.

Hey!

emery boards are great for filing down mold lines.

I order stuff from Amazon all the time.

This is a cool concept, but it raises many obvious questions. Security concerns, safety issues, etc.

 PrehistoricUFO wrote:
I order stuff from Amazon all the time.

This is a cool concept, but it raises many obvious questions. Security concerns, safety issues, etc.

Be prepared to launch fighters to escort your cargo to safety, and fend off the air pirates



The Pandora is fueled and ready to launch her interceptors

Drone cargo: Trap shooting with prizes!

 master of ordinance wrote:

 PrehistoricUFO wrote:
I order stuff from Amazon all the time.

This is a cool concept, but it raises many obvious questions. Security concerns, safety issues, etc.

Be prepared to launch fighters to escort your cargo to safety, and fend off the air pirates



The Pandora is fueled and ready to launch her interceptors

Not just Air Pirates, but Drone Air Pirates! It is a brave new world!

Brilliant delivery note

 PrehistoricUFO wrote:
I order stuff from Amazon all the time.

This is a cool concept, but it raises many obvious questions. Security concerns, safety issues, etc.

Was going to say, would love the idea of one of these coming down on an inner-city council estate, think its service life would be measured in minutes.

And you just know an OAP would be killed by one (possible beheaded) within the first week of launch.

EDIT - Out of interest, is anyone else trying to have an 'Amazon-less' Xmas this year? After seeing that report on working conditions for staff, and their tax-sidestepping measures (although I realise that is essentially the governments fault for being so slow on the uptake, as per normal) I'm trying to stick almost entirely to other stores, and when I use websites ensuring they are based on UK mainland. I've actually managed to do most of my Xmas shopping, and other than some time spent initially doing some looking around, I reckon I've probably only spend a couple of £ more than if I had used Amazon..

Just curious if anyone else has done similar?

 TheCustomLime wrote:
You fools are thinking too inside the box! What we can do is... RC Dogfights. Just mount a small calibre machine gun on a RC plane and reenact the Battle of Britain to your heart's content.

I think the recoil of the machine gun will make the drone spin ridiculously, it's only held up by tiny plastic propellers. So you can have an rc dogfight, but you risk killing everyone that is within range of the machine gun

Rory1432 wrote:

 TheCustomLime wrote:
You fools are thinking too inside the box! What we can do is... RC Dogfights. Just mount a small calibre machine gun on a RC plane and reenact the Battle of Britain to your heart's content.

I think the recoil of the machine gun will make the drone spin ridiculously, it's only held up by tiny plastic propellers. So you can have an rc dogfight, but you risk killing everyone that is within range of the machine gun

It depends on the design but FPS Russia did it with a four rotor drone. It was horribly innaccurate and I was surprised he kept the video going with how those shots were straying. Though it had more to do with the awkward controls than the recoil.

Clearly, the right answer is a shotgun barrel firing birdshot.

Or just a rubber band gun into the propellers.

Or a jammer that prevents signals coming in a certain area

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Or a jammer that prevents signals coming in a certain area

What are you, a bond villain? Simple is better.

Drone mounted grappling hook?

 TheCustomLime wrote:
It depends on the design but FPS Russia did it with a four rotor drone.

You might want to look at that video again. Bad CG comes to mind

Just throw a medium sized rock

 Minx wrote:

 TheCustomLime wrote:
It depends on the design but FPS Russia did it with a four rotor drone.

You might want to look at that video again. Bad CG comes to mind

Oh. Damn you, small screens! Then I'd just kamikaze them with RC planes. Paint them up in IJAF livery of course.

 Bromsy wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Or a jammer that prevents signals coming in a certain area

What are you, a bond villain? Simple is better.

I can make a signal jammer out of just some random things i my house

they aren't sending drones to the country so think again before shooting your gun in city limits

Ok.....Crossbow then

Medium sized rock from small catapults, let's get medieval!