{"id":3045,"date":"2009-04-29T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2009-04-29T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T06:20:00","slug":"robot-controlled-flying-sniper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=3045","title":{"rendered":"Robot controlled flying sniper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is an invention<\/a> that could have come straight from a sci-fi movie: a remote-controlled helicopter drone equipped with a highly accurate sniper rifle capable of seven to ten aimed shots per minute. It’s all over the various news outlets now, but because a QT3 member actually worked on it, it got posted<\/a> there before the news really spread out. The Wired<\/em> article even leaves out the best part. It mentions that it uses a videogame-type controller, but Charlatan on QT3 reveals that it uses an actual Xbox 360 controller to control its flight.<\/p>\n

As other posters on QT3 have jokingly pointed out, this must be a great way to save on operator training costs. Look at how many people are playing Halo<\/em> with the same controllers already!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is an invention that could have come straight from a sci-fi movie: a remote-controlled helicopter drone equipped with a highly accurate sniper rifle capable of seven to ten aimed shots per minute. It’s all over the various news outlets now, but because a QT3 member actually worked on it, it got posted there before … Continue reading Robot controlled flying sniper<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[272,274,273],"class_list":["post-3045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-drones","tag-helicopter","tag-military-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3045"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3049,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions\/3049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}