>>63998619
You can go surprisingly light if you strip everything down to the bare essentials:
* **Propulsion & ammo**: a tiny disposable CO2 or compressed-air cartridge (20 g of gas, \~25 g cartridge) driving a single plastic-wadding slug (10 g).
* **Barrel & housing**: thin‐walled polymer tube + minimal grip/trigger block, all molded in one piece (\~150 g).
* **Firing mechanism**: a single micro-solenoid valve (15 g) or simple spring-loaded striker (10 g), plus a 1 g button cell power source and switch (\~5 g).
**Total weight**:
> \~25 g (CO2) + 10 g (slug) + 150 g (tube & body) + 15 g (solenoid) + 5 g (battery/switch)
> **≈ 205 grams**
At \~200 g you’ve got a disposable “shotgun” that:
* Fires once, then is discarded
* Uses a slug accurate enough to punch a small quad-copter out of the sky from \~30 m
* Can be triggered mechanically (spring-striker) or electronically (solenoid + button cell)
In practice you’d build a molded polymer launch tube with an integrated CO2 capsule and firing valve, and package it all in a paper/cardboard carton. That yields a single-use, sub-¼ kg drone-downer.
thanks Chatgpt
