{"id":71975,"date":"2017-08-18T06:22:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T13:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/machine-gun-toting-drone-threatens-to-change-combat-forever"},"modified":"2017-08-18T06:22:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T13:22:26","slug":"machine-gun-toting-drone-threatens-to-change-combat-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/machine-gun-toting-drone-threatens-to-change-combat-forever","title":{"rendered":"Machine gun-toting drone threatens to change combat forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/machine-gun-toting-drone-threatens-to-change-combat-forever.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2015, a video showing a <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/handgun-drone-investigation-youtube-connecticut\/38571\/\" target=\"_blank\">semi-automatic handgun being fired from a custom-built drone<\/a> went viral, raising concerns for authorities, including the FAA. The development of such a DIY device was only a matter of time, as was the commercialization of the technology. Now Florida-based startup Duke Robotics has unveiled the TIKAD, a custom-built multirotor that can carry and fire various military weapons, including semi-automatic rifles and grenade launchers.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/tikad-gun-toting-drone-military\/50946\/\">http:\/\/newatlas.com\/tikad-gun-toting-drone-military\/50946\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, a video showing a semi-automatic handgun being fired from a custom-built drone went viral, raising concerns for authorities, including the FAA. The development of such a DIY device was only a matter of time, as was the commercialization of the technology. Now Florida-based startup Duke Robotics has unveiled the TIKAD, a custom-built multirotor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}