Drone Armed With Machine Gun, had to happen sooner or later.

[John Gowland]

Middle Eastern Nation First to Buy Drone Armed With Machine Gun

 

[ChrisOutdoors]

Middle Eastern Nation First to Buy Drone Armed With Machine Gun

I'd bet the US has their own fleet of light UAS that can weild a firearm and probably had it years ago.

A defense company put a machine gun on a drone | TechCrunch

Duke Robotics, a military contractor, has produced a video for their unique and uniquely dangerous new tool, TIKAD. This drone platform looks fairly basic

techcrunch.com

This thing def must be well armed by today, maybe with a 20mm canon?:

Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Here's what the US military is showing the public on what they're playing with:

Army Buys 9,000 Mini-Drones, Rethinks Ground Robots - Breaking Defense

Ground robots still lag drones, but the Army thinks both technologies are ready to field to frontline units, just at different levels.

breakingdefense.com

Here's an armored eletric golf cart with 400 miles of range and can fire with the 30mm bushmaster. Follows troops automatically, cannon human operated.

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[Northwood Mediaworks]

Predators have been flying for years.... just sayin'

 

[paulatkin73]

Turkey is getting military drones armed with machine guns

The Songar drone can accurately hit targets from hundreds of metres away, according to its manufacturer A drone with a machine gun attached can hit targets with high precision , according to its makers. Turkey is set to become the first country to have the drone, when it gets a delivery this...

www.newscientist.com

 

[Mavic Mac]

Check THIS one out from 2016

 

[25Vettes]

We've had these since before recreational drone piloting was even in fashion. I know, I was involved in several similar projects in the early 2000's while employed at a black-ops supplier to our Special Forces...

(The Corvette I'm driving in my profile pic had .50 caliber machine guns and a rocket launcher..... just kidding of course! but, the 427ci/435hp was pretty deadly in it's own right!)