Libyan Rebels Weaponize Power Wheels Toys 310
Danny Rathjens pointed out a story about the DIY weapons created by Libyan rebels. One of the more interesting is a machine gun drone created from a Power Wheels-style ATV. Rebels outfit the toys with a small cannon and attach controls via long wire. A solider can hide while he uses a small television and simple controls to move the vehicle and fire the gun. A similar system is also outfitted to a toy truck with a machine gun on top.
What's next? (Score:5, Funny)
What comes next? Weapon grade Lego?
already done (caltrops) (Score:5, Funny)
What comes next? Weapon grade Lego?
Ever step barefoot on a 1x1 in the middle of the night on your way to the bathroom?
Re:Wires = low tech (Score:2, Funny)
Model rocket Stinger (Score:4, Funny)
Watching the video, and the homemade RPG reminded me of a SAM my cousins and I built as kids.
1) An Estes model rocket...a WAC Corporal...with a B8-4 motor.
2) A shipping tube with a launch rod glued to the bottom cap.
3) Copper strips glued/screwed to bottom cap with wires running outside to a Burgess B battery and momentary switch from Radio Shack.
You slid the rocket down the tube on the launch rod with the nichrome igniter wires touching the copper strips. Aim, press the switch, and whoosh....a balsa and cardboard Stinger.
We didn't have the C4 and blasting caps for the warhead portion (thankfully), but we could aim and fire a $4 rocket.
The nosecone was to be built from C4 with a blasting cap on the nose and underneath. If you missed a direct impact, the ejection charge from the motor would slam a washer into the underneath blasting cap and still detonate the missile. At least that was our thinking.
Again, we never had anything that actually exploded, but something like this would probably work against low-flying helicopters. A C or D motor would give more range, etc.
Yes, we had way too much time on our hands. One of our test flights did cause 3 casualties...to a neighbor's chickens. A fin came off on launch and the rocket arced into the neighbor's chicken yard at feeding time. The rocket didn't hit the massed birds but 3 apparently died from fright. We paid for the dead birds from allowances and odd jobs.
Years later, in the Air Force, I was assigned to the USAF Rocket Propulsion Lab at Edwards AFB. I managed not to kill or blow up anything there.
Re:already done (caltrops) (Score:4, Funny)
Doesn't hurt as much as a d4.
Re:A-Team written by computer script (Score:4, Funny)
It would have made a lot more sense if they hadn't cut the line "Thank goodness we crashed into a pillow factory!"