Unmaned surveillance plane for Airsoft

[coach]

Originally Posted by Blackthorne

Lightweight polycarbonate armor?

carbon fiber?

[huang]

Originally Posted by coachster

carbon fiber?

I was told the shell is cheap. you can replace it easily.

[horto]

Originally Posted by MMatersk

I was thinking of picking up the Parrot Drone and operate it with my iPhone 4. Id like to know more detail Huang.... Interested indeed

I have one of these. Might be for sale soon.

http://ardrone.parrot.com/parrot-ar-drone/usa

Never used it for airsoft. Too afraid it would get shot

[krap101]

Originally Posted by Danke

Plan A) Include an IR god gun that will kill the UAV and have it glide in. The opposition gets the gun and if the UAV comes into range they knock it out of action.

Plan B) One player on the red team will be a human UAV. He'll get a special hat with a propeller. He holds out his arms and makes buzzing sounds as he walks through the blue lines to scope out their situation. You can not be shot when wearing the UAV beanie. Optional, he can be a Reaper UAV so able to stitch up the red side while behind their lines with immunity.

I like the IR gun. It would be an interesting "objective". If teams start on left and right side of the field, at the top somewhere is the "god gun" and at the bottom is the UAV controller. Controlling some bunker controls the uav controller. Shooting down the UAV removes it from the game for 10ish minutes (nice time to charge). If you put an IR filter on the drone camera, it might actually make these useful .

You can remove the pilot more or less if you can program the uav to be controlled to go to a "waypoint" and then circle. Point and... click....

http://www.botachtactical.com/acrmsdimali.html

[Danke]

Funny though how this comes up right after Iran pops up with a drone.

[Conker]

Well that's kinda obvious, this is Iran's reverse-engineered budget-version of the RQ-170 made in collaboration with China's Element/Z-Tactical replica corporation.

[krap101]

http://www.ministryoftofu.com/2011/0...hter-jet-news/

[R.I.T.Z]

Originally Posted by Danke

/snip...

Plan B) One player on the red team will be a human UAV. He'll get a special hat with a propeller. He holds out his arms and makes buzzing sounds as he walks through the blue lines to scope out their situation. You can not be shot when wearing the UAV beanie. Optional, he can be a Reaper UAV so able to stitch up the red side while behind their lines with immunity.

can he be taken out by one of these?

[Danke]

No the human drone has double force field immunity.

Yes I know that sounds ludicrous but so does any rule that grants an advantage to only one side.

[R.I.T.Z]

Originally Posted by Danke

No the human drone has double force field immunity.

Yes I know that sounds ludicrous but so does any rule that grants an advantage to only one side.

fine i'll shoot him twice.

I like the idea of the IR gun. shape it like a launcher of some sort.

[kalnaren]

Polycarb or other composite is much heavier than Z-foam, though as a type of appliqué armour it might not be a bad idea.

Larger airplanes have no bearing on altitude.. only difference is you can see them further away. They can however generally carry more "equipment". Disadvantage is you need pretty close to an actual runway -a nice long, paved pathway a good 300' long with no trees obstructing either end. Logistics become hard with large RC planes. The larger the plane the more skill it takes to fly them as well. These things are significantly more difficult to fly than RC cars are to drive.

Duration also becomes an issue. Large planes can't fly any longer than smaller ones (generally). If you get into longer duration, FPV, nav systems, etc. your costs start to go up exponentially. Weight is a severe enemy of small craft. Planes scale linearly... aerodynamics don't. Numbers pulled out of my ass, but along the lines of a 50% size reduction in the lifting surface equates to 85% reduction in lift.

The large RC planes that are capable of doing all that cost several thousand, or are 100% scratch built.

No trying to shoot down (har har) anyone's ideas.. Like I said, I've considered this at length, at for the most part the cost and logistics just doesn't make it worth it.

Yet.

The two big things for me with huang's idea is: 1) Duration, and 2) Cost of airframe replacement.

[XZIVR]

Many ppl build fpv setups with a multiplex easystar. Durable plane, cheap, can carry a reasonable payload of electronics and large batteries, and is relatively easy to fly. I would think it should make an excellent drone platform. Also glides well so It can stay in the air a long ass time..

[kalnaren]

If you're careful you could probably get 20-30 minutes out of an Easystar, depending on conditions.

Another one I might use as a platform is a HZ Supercub. Shorter duration but much higher payload.

[Danke]

What about one of the blimps you see at the arena? As long as it's a calm day.

You could even drop prizes on people (BB Bastard I'm looking at you).

[kalnaren]

Possible. I don't know a lot about RC blimps.