Army's Airborne Sniper System -- .338 Lapua

[Dannix]

I'm not particularly crazy about such designs.

It wouldn't be particularly hard for a military to down such a device as the radar cross section is probably not particularly stealthy. But it sounds like the perfect weapon platform for tyranny as long as the citizenry are infringed from possessing modern military tech.

The engineer decides to use a common RC Frequency such as 49mhz and gets interference resulting in an accidental discharge

Even a knowledgeable RCer would due better. Analog would be out of the question for something like this. I personally would develop my own app-layer protocol for an extra level of security (though through obscurity, true).

when I was in highschool a friend of mine got busted for chasing down kids with his rc chopper that he set up to launch bottle rockets between the skids.this was in 1982 and he was 17. it cost his father several grand in cort costs and loyers fees to keep my buddy out of jail. so this is something i would think long and hard about before i would try any similar "test".

Flour bombs are pretty popular. Just don't drop them on people. Sounds like your friend really just needed one of the kids older brother to beat him up and trash his heli.

 

[MikePGS]

Yowzers, I guess I should've added the sarcasm tags

 

[Cap'n Jack Burntbeard]

My first thought on this is convoy protection, controlled by the boots on the ground.
The only thing better than this would be the Sarcos Exoskeleton with some armor, I guess truth really is stranger than fiction.