Saying non credible af here, but in theory one could add a upwards facing shotgun shells on top of the helmet, triggered by a Camera/proximity sensor if it detects a drone/falling grande. Maybe add a gyroscope to check if the helmet is actually facing upwards before triggering. All in all unit cost could be below 250$
- 6x 12 gauge shells with bird shot
- Raspberry pi type controller
- USB cam
- Laser distance sensor
- gyroscope
- servo trigger
Just give all the soldiers baseball bats and they can whack the grenades back to the enemy. We need to play to American strength
I had no idea what I was looking at, so I thought it was a disco ball to confuse light-based sensors and cameras.
Bee Gees - Staying alive.
Sure thing. Bundle it with a gift certificate for a chiropractor. Also, wouldn’t expended bird shot come raining down on the helmet wearer?
Clearly the back pain is not service related and should not be covered.
Bird shot doesn’t hurt when it falls on you, unless it gets in your eye. The recoil from the shot might be enough to cause serious neck damage.
Potentially, but at that point it probably would have lost its lethal velocity, so the worst that could happen is it gets stuck in your hair or falls into your shirt or something.
There’s also falling drone
Pickelhaube 2.0
Drone dropped munitions rarely land directly on a soldiers head; rather they land nearby and injure surrounding soldiers with the blast/fragmentation. Without some sort of active aim, this thing will almost never hit, if it even triggers.
ok throw in 20$ more for 2 servos to gumball the thing in the right direction
Let’s kick it up a notch and get Raytheon working on a helmet-mounted Phalanx that fires .22LR. The old farts at the trap & skeet range are gonna be in for a surprise when I show up with that bad boy.
Why not just have a drone detection and alert system, integrate it with the new HUD they’re working on to point to it, and have the soldier shoot the demon bird himself?
Might want to get automatic shotguns like the AA-12 out there to desperately pepper the bastards.
They don’t have rules in place for that! The range officer might swallow his dip.
Load it with Dragon’s Breath shells and add a manual trigger, and it becomes the latest craze for New Year’s parties!
I feel like just having a designated drone spotter/shooter in a squad would be more effective than this.
You need to MIC that shit up, there is no way our districts can profit off that.
Stick a multi strategy drone detector on an MRAP and pair it with an automated proprietary small bore shotgun chaingun. Like a baby Phalanx that shoots .4 bore.
It will take some time before it stops shooting birds, but all that can be taken care of in future iterations that require retrofitting that is not covered by the maintenance contract.
the birds thing is a feature, high protein snack precooked via tracer
My in laws have a pigeon problem.
Can I borrow the prototype?
Too credible
in theory one could add a upwards facing shotgun shells on top of the helmet
Seems like a recipe for neck problems and neck-related fatalities
You leave behind a crate of these with manuals for the enemy to find when you move positions.
Shotguns ain’t that powerful, what are we going to stick 2ga brass slugs up there?
American defense contractors… 💰💰 💰
I feel like the physics behind attaching shotgun shells to your helmet with the intention of shooting down drones would break your neck.
Just attach downwards facing blanks that trigger at the same time.
Checkmate physicscredible solution right there
With no barrel to really direct the velocity, wouldn’t it be more like attaching a tiny grenade or firecracker than a bullet? In that case the kickback force would be less than out of a regular rifle since the blast velocity is distributed in a radius and not in a singular direction.
Edit: maybe switch that laser distance sensor for a Ultrasonic one, since ultrasonic dosent show up as bright flickering dots in night vision…
The real deal use radar/lidar sensors, so you can replace the whole sensor suite with 4 90-degree sensors facing upwards with the added benefit of being able to track not just range but speed and trajectory.
Slap the computer on the back of the helmet, and it’ll even work as a counterweight for the night vision goggles!
Just seems like ERA with extra steps
This looks like anti-ambush gizmos bolted to the sides of trucks in Vietnam. One-up this and put a quarter of claymore there instead
