Weapon test

Posted on 4th October 2017 by admin under Construction, Front Page Gallery, News

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We’ve been field testing our weapon.  This is the first time we’ve spun the blade up using the motors, all in all a successful test.  With only small tweaks needed to get it running nice and smoothly.  More videos to follow.

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