In Russia, a grenade launcher for drones was patented, designed to hit enemy fire points from the air. Its description is already on the website of the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (FIPS).
The utility model relates to the field of weaponry, specifically to devices for placing and throwing ammunition from an unmanned aerial vehicle. The technical task of the proposed device is to expand the capabilities of the device for tasks related to defeating enemy fire points in buildings and structures. For this, a drone grenade launcher is proposed, containing a magazine and a mechanism for feeding and throwing a grenade through the barrel of a grenade launcher towards the target.
Description of the patent on the FIPS website
The magazine of the grenade launcher is presented in the form of a cylindrical drum, inside which there is a disk with grenades. The grenade launcher is supposed to be aimed at the target using a remote control drone and a camera.
Power is supplied to the electric motor on the operator's command, the motor rotates the disk through a gear transmission, as a result one of the eight grenades is fed into the barrel through a hole in the bottom of the drum. After that, the solenoid is supplied with voltage, the ferromagnetic core acts on the grenade and sends it to the target set by the operator.