I've seen packs of 15-20 running along together while riding my motorcycle along county roads in the middle of nowhere, San Saba County. But they normally stay out of sight; they're super smart.
Good luck.
This is exactly what we in Europe imagine Texas to be like. I'm not disappointed.
You could certainly air drop explosives on them but that connotes serious risk to the environment and extremely inhumane injury or death to the pigs.
I wonder if some kind of dart could be used to euthanize them, though it would likely cost more than bullets and still lack accuracy.
What an awful topic though. The pigs have no idea they’re invasive. They’re such intelligent creatures, it’s an incredible shame that we’ve caused this.
The FAA defines drones as being up to 55lbs, so yes. Most of the off-the-shelf octocopter cinema drones could probably handle an appropriate firearm with some minimal modifications. Now, whether the FAA and ATF will throw a tantrum over a remote control weapons platform like that is a different story...
I Am Not A Lawyer, and attempting to build an armed drone without the advice of one one will probably earn you an ATF raid with your dog shot, your spouse sniped, you arrested, your house burned down, a cabinet appointment for the raid leader, and you put on national news with the option for a Netflix documentary 20 years later.
The FAA has a regulation prohibiting the operation of "Dangerous Weapons" attached drones without prior approval [0], so that's your first and biggest hurdle.
A servo-actuated trigger is likely going to get deemed a "machine gun" by the ATF, as it's one firmware tweak (or bug) away from firing more than once per "trigger pull" by the human user. Now if you were to become an NFA firearms manufacturer (Type 07 FFL+Class 2 SOT) you would be manufacturing, demonstrating (remember that FAA approval) and selling hog hunting drones officially.
To reiterate: Do not even think about doing this without actual legal counsel.
[0] https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/drones-and-weapons-dangerous-mi...
Maybe we can get them to the negotiations table and broker a peace deal with the super pig regime and turn them into an ally.
For any VCs reading this, please wire me funding at your convenience.
Mass production can change that! The more we use on pigs, the less per unit!
Can you elaborate? I'm only aware of the traditional helicopters.
(never buy an ATV from Amazon, obviously)
But sir, it says "SMART DEALS NOW". Are you sure one shouldn't buy?
Bit of a pain to get titled, though.