#drone spg

[spacejunker]

been awhile since i drew my fanbot so here is new and improved Drone (and his hawk Mister)

[saturday-byte]

(first let's all pretend it's still Friday , ok? Ok.)

I'm still being annoying about fanbots so y'all get this 💥 some of the artstyles in the ogs were pretty different to mine so I had to make Choices (and fully design Sparky. Omg) but I hope it's still ok

(Mainframe belongs to @butterbolted-automaton, Octavia to @galaxystargurl110, Sparky to @hummingbirdspark, Drone to @spacejunker, Stripy and Starry to @tealares/@asmogorna and Rose to @thoughts-and-lovely-illusions !!)

[dreamii-krybaby]

BRASS GOGGLES BY STEAM POWERED GIRAFFE IS LITERALLY MURDER DRONES'S THEME SONG, NO I WILL NOT CHANGE MY MIND AND I WILL FIGHT YOU.

no but seriously it fits so well, the thing is this song has gone through many different versions it can fit the show in different ways.

like the song can be told in multiple POVs, but I think some version fit some characters better. For example the most current version of brass goggles (I think) is the one that includes "tea time", (for context some version aren't officially in platforms as it has only been performed by the band at their concerts/live shows but you can listen to it in youtube since a lot of their live performances are posted there) fits CYN as the main singer so well! ( I also feel she can fit as "upgrade"s part in the 2008 version)

tho yes even tho the song in all of it versions has a very old timey vibe (which honestly in that case fits the CYN and the whole creepy manor fiasco) lyric wise it fits a lot of the characters.

tho i think the 2013 version gives it a much more energy so gives it a different vibe (am talking the walter robotics expo and the one at La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego) and I think it fits Uzi better bc the instrumentals and vocals go HARD in those performances of that version.

honestly any version of brass goggles can be sung by multiple characters from Murder Drones, each having their part.

there are so many songs from SPG that can fit murder drones so well, mostly lyric wise.

honestly we need sci-fi vibe songs about robot singing about the experience of living.

btw if u wanna know how many versions this song has its around 5 i think:

-album one (2009 version) this version of the album had the backup vocals of Erin Burke who portrayed "Upgrade" before she left the band in 2011

-album one (2012) the most known one

-"2013 version" - in this "version" which was performed at the Walter Robotics expo and at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego had much more energy and intensity and had an added drum solo.

-Music from SteamWorld heist (2015) - this version made for the game had a more upbeat but not necessarily an intense instrumental, and according to the SPG wiki,the developers game team sang alongside the band in the chorus.

btw in the 2013 and 2015 version had the backup vocals of Samuel luke, who was the og drum player before he joined as "Hatchworth" taking over the role of "the Jon" (who was portrayed by jonathan sprague, who left the band in late 2012)

-Tea time/Tea break (2014-present in performances) this version contains a "tea break" between before the final chorus and bridge of the song.

also in 2015 in performances the drums where no longer presented and instead was replaced by a keyboard and went HARD when the song had the "tea break" part (I think I know why this was made but GOD the history of the changes inside the band is hella long)

and btw in some performances you'll see a different member of the band, which is zero who joined the band in 2016 after Hatchworth/sam luke left

oh and in some version some lyrics of the song change, although most of the time they are minor ones and are mostly present in the the backup vocals.

anyways thank for reading me going down a rabbit hole of a pantomime-robot-band-lore-song named after a steampunk website

(also pls check out Steam Powered Giraffe, they are seriously super talented people, and just in case ALL of their albums and songs follow different vibes, like you will not find a song similar to brass goggles in their other albums. )

(Oh and btw Rabbit (the character) and isabella/"bunny" (Rabbit's performer) is trans and uses She/Her pronouns, but she started the band before she transitioned, so in some older performances you'll see rabbit with an outdated design and pronouns, am just saying this so some of yall dont get confused when watching their old content. Also Rabbit has the tendency to constantly change her design (which makes sense why this song has so many versions since its sang by rabbit and contains heavy lore of the SPG storyline))

[dreamii-krybaby]

MURDER DRONES AND STEAM POWERED GIRAFFE MENTIONED?!?!?!?

Y'all ever just hear a song that is so [CHARACTER] coded that you just have to

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Anyway this is how I feel about:

(THE REAL) Tessa - Half Past Three (Cosmo Sheldrake)

V - Winter: Will (The Arcadian Wind)

Uzi - First Love/Late Spring (Mitski)

N - Malfunction (Steam Powered Giraffe)

I just. COME ON. Obviously I have more examples but AAAAA

[guerrillera-bolivarianista]

what sort of role do you think drones will play in future conflicts?

OK this is gonna be a long one so I'm going to seperate this into five sections LOITERING MUNITIONS: suicide drones whatever you wanna call them, these have obviously gotten a lot of publicity and for good reason, I think these have really shown their value as cost effective and accurate replacements for missiles. We'll definitely keep seeing these obviously the shahed's are one of the big ones but I would keep an eye out for russian lancets too. and of course I'd like to point out the al-zouari as a trend we're going to see a lot, small scale indigenous production of drones like these can really give insurgent groups an advantage when it comes to precision targeting (obviously palestinian forces especially in gaza have always prioritized artillery). As far as real changes in this category beyond simple proliferation I'm interested in the iranian 358, the possibilities of anti-air loitering munitions could be major. RECON DRONES: There's been a lot of investment into these but going forwards, and judging based on what has been used successfully in recent times I'd say there's going to be two major types 1. Strategic scale surveillance drones: these tend to be operated by aerospace forces as an independant element, basically your larger small plane sized drones meant to fly over enemy lines and territory and document things, one very publicized instance of this is the lebanese hisballah's hudhud drone which was used to provide precise layouts of zionist positions and lead drones and missiles onto target, these will probably mostly be slow moving vehicles with a stealth basis, notably in it's I think like 8 flights all the way down to tel aviv the hudhud was never shot down 2. company level recon drones, these will likely be relatively small but rugged probably equipped with some degree of communications equipment as well as their camera, whether its a radio repeater or a laser targeting system. I say company level specifically because the way I see it these operate best as part of the command and control infrastructure, allowing officers to coordinate different units in a single maneuver and better plan things out UGVS: Now I think there really is limited use for these but I'm going to mark out two instances, first off is the russian Karakal tracked drone, meant as a frontlines logistics vehicle meant to supply units underfire and also do medevac I think its a promising idea. the second you could argue doesn't really count as a drone because its stationary, but I find a i believe unnamed series of armenian prototypes very interesting, they were used in the recent karabakh war, and were effectively a series of machine guns in fixed positions slaved to a remote operator, these proved themselves quite effective against infantry, and there was even a heavier variant using a zu-23-2 and spg-9. I think most of these were lost in the war but I wouldn't be shocked were a similar concept to show up in say the ukraine. USV: naval drones! they're the modern u-boat, in that they were big and flashy and scary and now they're going to specialize now that people have found how weak they are. in the future I think usvs will coalesce into shapes roughly equivalent to the yemeni Al-Qaria, much like a loitering munition this largely functions as a guided torpedo with higher precision and less infrastructure require THINGS I DONT THINK WELL SEE MUCH SUCCESS FROM GOING FORWARDS: 1. hunter-killer drones, with the repeated embarrassing losses from american reapers zionist hermes-900s and turkish bayraktars I really think these are going the way of the dinosaur, they were big and flashy but all they're good for is targeting undefended civilian infrastructure 2. walkers, this is kind of an obvious one but i just don't think the american's investments in legged drones are going to work out 3. Squad level quadcopters, i think this is an example of over-excitement in adopting new technology, it serves little purpose and harms the squads combat readiness

[captain-price-unofficially]

Ukrainian artillerymen use a 155mm FH-70 to destroy a Russian 2S3 SPG with the help of a drone spotter.

[antlersofthevoid]

Cross-using an SPG OC!

In murder drones context, Willow was originally sent to copper-9 with the first testing group as a gardening drone, working with Angora in the greenhouse.

[delectablywaywardbeard-blog]

La minuziosa perlustrazione: l'occhio del drone Fpv : "Distruzione del lanciagranate ucraino SPG-9"

Filmato dai social di Mosca mostrano la soggettiva di un drone che perlustra “con accuratezza” il fronte innevatosource

[jloisse]

🇺🇦 Destruction d'un autre SPG (Self-propelled artillery) de l'OTAN à l'aide d'un projectile Krasnopol de 152 mm corrigé. Le tir est corrigé à partir du drone Orlan.

[theseventhoffrostfall]

The common perception is that Ukraine's irregular volunteer units are ordinary people rising up to defend their homes, and while that's a fine image I object to it because there isn't an ordinary man within a hundred miles. Strong evidence that our spotter is fucking his motorcycle, the XO is a metal vocalist, the SPG team leader keeps finding and hooking up with African crackheads, the drone operator refuses to sleep indoors because of "electromagnetic fields", our rifle team leader keeps offering to sell me women from his village in Chechnya, and I am still not convinced one of the two guys on the commander(himself a Khažad dwarf)'s PSD isn't a ghost

[nerdtlelovesart]

New SPG OC’s!!

Be getting inspiration left and right and started thinking of two new characters for SPG....again lol.

One is a Kazoolander and the other one is a fanbot, the fanot was inspired by NASA’s Mars drone ‘Oppertunity’ in fact that’s her name. I had the strange idea to make Oppertunity an SPG bot thinking it would be a cool idea. She’s the first SPG robot to go to space, but I was kinda debating what gets her to officially go to space, I was thinking either the Mars trip or the search and recover team for the crew of the Cosmo but it goes wrong.

As for the Kazoolnader, she’s an adult humanoid Axolotl princess from a far off reaction in Kazooland and her name is Eelou (ee- loo) kinda bases her off a little bit of my last Kazoolander OC Meev and Lilou from the Fifth Element. Her story is that the Waltors were experimenting with the blue portal again to try and get it to work and it does but they end up bringing Eelou into their world after she tried to run away from her kingdom (they don’t know she’s a princess till they try to send her back) and at this time all the previous Walter robots have come to stay and visit for a few weeks. So most of them have heard about the portal being in action again but don’t know what really came threw till the Jon found Eelou in his old room under his bed and thus start the beginning is something MORE than friendship 😉

So ya those are my two new oc’s hope you enjoy them and thnx for tuning in👍🏻❤️

[dreamii-krybaby]

Five nights at Freddy’s fan songs 🤝 Steam Powered Giraffe 🤝 The Cog is Dead

All of their songs fitting Murder Drones characters and/or lore

It also makes me really happy, bc I love FNAF,Murder Drones,Steam Powered Giraffe and I just recently got The Cog is Dead.

[micbergsma]

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[fapangel]

Do you think that SPAAGs still have a role in modern formations? I mean, proper ones like Gepards or the newer Shilkas; not Hiluxes with ZPUs on the back. Or does the advent of High-Alt LGB strikes being the new CAS invalidate them a bit? How about large-caliber SPAAGs like the OTOMATIC? Would they have a renewed role if they could function as C-RAM?

They do - but their use is somewhat more restrained now. Witness the Russian Tor and Pantsir systems, which combine both short-range missiles and cannons. Autocannons simply don’t have the range, whereas even the best modern missiles can’t reliably engage something flying really low, and with modern electronics and sensors being what they are - to say nothing of small drones - the ability to engage zero-altitude targets is still important. 

The Pantsir system (SA-22 Greyhound is the NATO reporting name,) is explicitly designed to provide point-defense against inbound Precision Guided Munitions in addition to the usual SHORAD duties of warding off CAS/choppers. Clearly, they’re not obsolete just because of PGMs! With that said, AAA is still greatly inhibited by its limited range, something neither modern fire control nor modern munitions fuzing can really overcome. Without being combined with good missiles - even short-ranged MANPAD derived ones - such a system is best used as a dual-use anti-air, anti-surface weapon, carrying shells with multi-purpose fuzes that can be switched to different detonation modes to engage light ground targets. The effectiveness of the Shilka’s four ZSU-23s against ground targets is well known, after all, and there’s plenty of applications for a SPAAG as a light SPG, for applying direct fire to improvised fortified structures. Even tanks don’t like being saturated with shittons of 23mm HE; it breaks expensive things like sensors, periscopes and even track links.  

It’s interesting you mention the revival of larger-caliber AA like the OTOMATIC. There’s plenty of old 50s-70s era Soviet ZSU-57-2 SPAAGs left out there; they were originally meant to use their bigger 57mm gun to reach up and touch aircraft at the middle altitudes that the Shika couldn’t reach; the last huzzah of the gun-era of anti-aircraft defense. But it might be coming back to the fore. The OTOMATIC you mention’s just a SPAAG-mounted version of the very popular OTO Melara 76mm naval gun - which the Italian navy uses in combination with their guided DART projectiles as point-defense for their ships. It’s worth linking, because people should read it: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTO_Melara_76_mm#DART

Guided cannon projectiles bridge the gap between guns and missiles, and make high-caliber, low-ROF guns useful again. In Ye Olden Aircraft Guns, “heavy” AAA like 127mm dual-angle guns on ships, or the famous 88mm flak, was valuable because it was the only weapon that could reach out a good distance and/or to high altitudes, and the low ROF was compensated for by the large threatened space of the big fragmentation shell. Missiles conclusively kicked their ass at that, but steady tech advancement (for both guns and their munitions) made mid/low level AA, which was always about rapid fire at close range, much, much better. This kept them competitive and relevant, but still can’t enable them to replace the heavy AA guns of old - they still can’t reach like those weapons could. The Goalkeeper system is a fantastic example of the difficulty. It uses the famous GAU-8, which itself notable for being a 30mm autocannon that generates such insane velocities that its AP shells can actually penetrate tanks from certain angles. It’s also literally the size of a VW bug to achieve that performance, and rather heavier. It makes the Goalkeeper system very effective at point-defense by pushing out the effective range further -1,500 meters - but the turrets are terribly heavy and large. The coming age of the guided projectile is definitely going to bring medium/heavyweight AA back into relevance. 

As for C-RAM, that’s a good point, and highlights a further extension of the trend of naval point-defense systems being brought ashore at SHORAD systems. The Centurion C-RAM system is just a Phalanx 20mm CIWS on a trailer, with upgraded software and specialized ammo, meant for engaging mortar and rocket artillery. This is definitely going to be more relevant in the future, as mortars and artillery rockets aren’t just harassment used by insurgents - they’re gaining greater and greater prevalence in the armies of Russia and China. Not just as long-ranged rocket artillery, but as full-out SRBMs meant for tactical use. A missile designed to engage low-level targets like drones and choppers isn’t going to have the kinematic performance to engage something as fast and high-angle as an SRBM or artillery rocket - nor would a light AA gun, no matter how good - but a 76mm gun firing guided projectiles? Especially with hyper-sonic projectiles in current development? It could produce a useful gun-centric system, with MANPAD-derived missiles existing to back up and extend the reach of a very capable gun, rather than an adequate gun backing up very capable missiles. 

So yeah, you’re on-point with all of that - SHORAD is a thing, and guns are making a comeback. A final SHORAD-related thought: 

>RAM: Rolling Airframe Missile; very good point-defense missile for navy ships. 

>SeaRAM: RAM launcher combined with Phalanx’s radar dome to make a fully standalone system. 

>C-RAM: Standalone Phalanx gun mounted on a trailer to shoot down mortar shells on land.

Now put SeaRAM on a C-RAM mounting and...? 

[antlersofthevoid]

We interrupt your regularly scheduled murder drones lesbians to bring you: Steam Powred Giraffe lesbians! Aspen [the right] is my oc, and her girlfriend, Echo [left] belongs to my unofficially adopted mother, @visceralvoid !

[Also i've re-discovered my love of SPG so that's gonna start appearing here too >:3]

[eddiejpoplar]

GEAR REVIEW: Feiyu Tech SPG Plus Gimbal Rig for iPhone

In the world of automotive journalism, photographers and videographers pull out all of the stops to get the right shot or capture the perfect moment. The sort of gear that these photographers and videographers have to capture that those moments is seriously impressive, with sliders, rigs and drones that look like they came off of a Spielberg set. However, one of the most commonly used piece of gear used in automotive journalism is also one of the most affordable and most effective — the gimbal. We recently tested one over the past couple of test drives we’d done and it turns out that a good gimbal can make me, an amateur at best, actually not half bad.

The rig we tested was the Feiyu Tech SPG Plus Gimbal Rig for iPhone. The SPG Plus is a three-axis stabilizing handheld gimbal rig and is designed to work with iPhones. It features two vertical handles on either side of the gimbal, both of which are covered in a grippy rubberized coating, so your hands never slip, nor do they fatigue from having to squeeze the handles harder to hold on. It’s also really well weighted in hand, so filming for long periods of time is a breeze. There are also 1/4-inch screw ports at the bottom of each handle, making hooking up tripods, camera flash or microphone very easy.

It also feels as if it’s built very well and feels high quality. The entire rig is made from solid-alloy aluminum, so it’s not only strong and durable but lightweight. And we can seriously attest for its durability, as it’s been in the trunks of cars that, well let’s say weren’t driven delicately. It’s also been on a lot of shoots and been properly used. Despite all of that, has nary a scratch or imperfection and every rotating axis works flawlessly. It’s quite impressive, actually.

The cradle which holds the iPhone in place is also very strong. In fact, it’s almost too strong, as it can sometimes be difficult to actually get the iPhone in there. However, once it’s in, there’s never a worry of it sliding or falling out, even when it’s rotated upside down or on its side. You can always have complete confidence in it holding your expensive phone. Once the iPhone is in the cradle, it comes time to balance the back axis. Thankfully, it’s incredibly easy. There’s a knurled knob on the back of the axis that unscrews and then the entire cradle slides left and right. So you just adjust the balance of the phone until it stays level and screw the knob back in. It’s a breeze.

Once the phone is balanced, you won’t need to adjust it again until you either change iPhones or add a heavy attachment to it. So you really only need to do it the first time, which is nice.

When you turn the Feiyu Tech SPG Plus on, the iPhone cradle swivels into place and it’s time to pair the phone to the gimbal rig. This is probably the most difficult part of using the SPG Plus, as the software can be a bit difficult to use. There’s a free app to download to your iPhone and that allows you to pair your phone with the gimbal. Once paired, the app acts like a typical camera app, where you can adjust different levels of exposure and focus. The app itself works quite well and is easy to use. The difficulty can come from its Bluetooth pairing, which can be a bit finicky sometimes. It will sometimes unpair from the phone inexplicably, which can be frustrating while trying to film a car.

Though, the app’s difficulties are seldom and aren’t too big a concern. Once paired and working, though, it works really quite well. On the right handle, there’s a joystick that can swivel the iPhone completely 360-degrees, on both its X and Y axis. So you have an infinite amount of control over where the iPhone is pointing, all from your right thumb. It’s really easy to use and it’s actually fun to use. If I has shown this gumbal to five-year old me, my younger self would pass out. Mostly because I would be seeing myself from the future, but also because this gimbal is a cool piece of tech. Where the Bluetooth pairing comes in handy here, though, is the fact that you can control the shutter button from the SPG Plus’ right handle. So no need to actually work your iPhone. Easy peasy.

It also has a few different functions. One of them keeps the iPhone facing straight ahead, no matter where you turn it. This allows you to just walk and point the camera where you want and it keeps it smooth and stable. The other main function is its ability to fix the camera on a certain object, like a car for instance, and as you walk around, the camera will continue to follow the subject. Which is a cool feature. It can also flip 180-degrees with the double tap of the power button, back and forth, so you can flip to selfie-mode and back very quickly.

There’s one other small criticism I have and it’s with the battery life, which can be quite short. So you don’t get a ton of filming time before it starts to die. I’ve only been able to get a little over an hour out of it, during heavy use. When you consider the fact that it’s working three-axis stabilizing equipment, it’s understandable that its battery dies pretty quickly. And over an hour of heavy use isn’t a small amount, but it can be problematic on a full day of shooting.

Having said that, though, the Feiyu Tech SPG Plus is an awesome tool for any automotive journalist. It works well, allows you to get great, smooth shots and it even looks good. But it’s not only good for car journalists, it’s just great fun to use and can capture some really awesome moments. The SPG Plus isn’t exactly cheap, at around $299. However, it’s a high-tech piece of kit and it’s made really well. It isn’t some plastic toy, it’s a solid aluminum, three-axis stabilizing gimbal rig and it’s good enough for professional grade use.

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