THE TIKAD OCTOCOPTER DRONE CAN FIRE ASSAULT RIFLES FROM THE AIR

Drones are going to become one of the staples seen on the modern battlefield and one of the very latest in development is the Octocopter drone with the name of TIKAD. This is a drone that carries arms, in fact to be more precise, grenades or bombs.  

TIKAD DRONE SHOOTS INFANTRY SMALL ARMS

The TIKAD drone is from Duke Robotics, they are a private company who are specialists in technology for the military. Last week they revealed the TIKAD, a drone with eight rotors known as an octocopter, that can not only carry, but also shoot, infantry small arms. The TIKAD octocopter is a small drone that is able to carry weaponry that can be directly fired, including grenade launchers and rifles. The company is only in the early stages of developed of the TIKAS octocopter, but it does like they are going to be a new force to be reckoned with on future battlefields.  

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Military drones that are smaller, including the fixed wing RQ-11 Raven of the military in the US have been used before but they are typically used for observation instead of direct combat. Guerrilla forces over in Iraq, Syria and Ukraine, along with others have been able to make use of commercial quadcopter drones for the dropping of bombs, along with spying on the positions of enemies. 

TIKAD DRONE HAS COMPLICATED RIG TO HELP WITH RECOIL

However, up to now being able to fire a projectile weapon such as a gun, from a small platform that is airborne has been very difficult. Generally any infantry rifle has recoil that heavily distorts the shot taken by the rifle. The TIKAD on the other hand is able to overcome this as it has a rig that is complicated which takes the full force of the recoil of the weapon and it is able to readjust the aim so that it can fire again.

The company behind the TIKAD says that they have supplied the military in Israel with a very early version of the drone and they have been said to have used it in combat. It was also suggested that the military in Israel are also going to purchase several of the drones. 

DRONE WAS DEVELOPED FOR PRECISION AGAINST TARGETS

Lt. Col. Raziel Atuar is the founder of Duke Robotics and he served for 20 years in the military in Israel and is still a reserve in the Special Forces. He said that he wanted to develop a flying weapon system that was able to address the many challenges of precision against targets in the urban battlefield, which was dense.  

He said that a helicopter or bigger drone, even an artillery system, would be able to take out any forces that were hostile on top of any building; however, he said that usually there would not be any huge destructive force. He went on to say that often there are small groups of adversaries that work among areas which are crowded and generally use any civilians as shields. Then the military has to send in a team and people are generally lost, he said that it is an operational challenge that bothers them.

The promotional video of the company has been shown in the hope of attracting investors to the TIKAD drone. It shows the drone firing a weapon from the platform. While the company still has some work to do on the drone to ensure that it is a viable weapon and one that will be capable of sustained and accurate fire at range, this is something that is not shown in the video.

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