The Glade 4.0

Making the gun aim and shoot on its own would not be hard. Target identification reliable enough for real-world employment would need to be much better than just "size and pattern of movement" and would require very extensive testing before being employed. Something like this could have use in certain situations, such as conducting a hasty or deliberate defense against an enemy coming from a known direction, but even there extreme caution would be needed.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

The last I saw of the project which was about 9 months ago, maybe more, they had stored faces in it and it would recognize and not engage (in indoor lighting). The guy was making it for his apartment front door so it is extrodinarily static.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Drones are still booby traps, and are therefore federal crimes.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Regardless, this seems like an incredibly hazardous way to accomplish something you can do yourself with a shotgun.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Long time Standard SF tank equipment and building defense equipment. More ways in which SF is prophetic fiction.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Actually, the apartment-defense drone might be a good idea if you're expecting Xenomorphs.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Damn that Katko v Briney.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Ive seen a few designs that have airsoft guns in them. I would assume same software but beefier turret to handle recoil. Also any fte ftf issues would put it out immediately.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

This thread reminds me that my father once gave me a metal, almost completely circular ring (it was kind of in the shape of a lightbulb), about the size of a silver dollar. It was one of the main things that attached a missile/bomb to the F-16, and I believe is what was unhooked when they pressed fire. I don't remember exactly, but I do remember seeing a demonstration (on the jet itself) from my dad on how it's used to hook it under the wing of the jet.

It reminds me of that, and it reminds me that I was a dumb kid and lost it. That would have made a great sentimental keychain.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

Need a different armament, one less prone to overheating since they attack in very large groups.

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

Everyone knows you have to nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Or, throw them through an airlock or something in a pinch.

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When he's underwater does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?