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Old 15th Dec 2023, 11:33
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andytug
 
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Originally Posted by BEagle
I watched the first episode on iPlayer this evening....

A query - surely a relatively lightweight drone (ooh, the 'R-PAS' geeks really hate that word!) fitted with a machine gun must suffer recoil issues? Rockets and bombs are one thing, but guns?
A drone that small, that can withstand machine gun fire and has zero apparent recoil from firing its own machine gun? I think not!

It's a detective story, with heavy clunky emphasis on the morals of killing people with drones (inset smarmy unlikeable chap trying to sell them to foreigners here). Subtle it isn't. Having watched Shetland before it where it took ages for anything to happen (much more realistic for police work) the amount that happened in an hour in Ep1 was ridiculous really. But then it's entertainment so the more booms, jump scares, near death situations they can cram in, the better, I guess.........
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