Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 12:10 PM
David,
Been a bit busy, but finally found the time to get to the lantern gun beam arm. After some amount of fussing I've arrived at a form and motion that I can live with. Yeah, yeah, I know that people won't really ever see this motion, but you just know I needed to be content in some measure before working out the rest of this drone. See attached animation test.
The red pintle at the end of the arm is where the actual lantern gun would be mounted. That round mass at the base of the beam arm is only a place-keeper. Counting all ten beam arm segments the length when extended works out to about 100 meters in our future world environment. Obviously, the drone base under this unit is going to be a bit heftier than the other drones and would not be something that would normally travel with the box hauler, but only with the fully loaded cargo frame.
Cheers,
- Ignatz