At the Festival of Ancient Russia, a warrior shot a quadrocopter with a spear
The identity of the gunner is installed, the camera removed it a second before the accident
May 8 at the international festival of historical reconstruction Rusborg 2016 was as always colorful and noisy. Reconstructors reliably conveyed the medieval atmosphere, as if every visitor made a trip through time: elegant clothes of young beauties , household items, weapons of fighters, methods of warfare , methods of executing criminals - everything in the smallest detail corresponds to the realities of Ancient Russia.
The idyll continued until a quadrocopter appeared over the heads of the medieval Russians.
One of the reenactors named Konstantin Ruchenkin heard a noise. Without thinking twice, Kostya turned, aimed - and threw a spear at the “devilish car” from the future. The drone failed due to a blow and fell to the ground.
Fortunately, the fighter’s fervor on this subsided, he did not finish off the enemy, and everything ended with the world. “He paid the cost of repairs,” said Gennady Tolcheev, the owner of the drone. “All people are normal, the incident is due to the valiant daring that prevails at the festival and, as it were, military events that write off everything.”
The festival organizers did not find anything reprehensible in the incident at all. Moreover, they even called the act of the warrior an epic feat worthy of Grettir and Egil Skallagrimson: “Just think. This is most likely the world's only drone downed by anti-aircraft fire from the ground - with the help of a throwable spear! "
The position of the organizing committee on this topic is as follows.
1. Kopter flew with the permission of the organizing committee, he shot a video to create videos about the festival, including.
2. Kopter flew at that particular moment next to the competition related to the interaction of weapons. Everyone was a little adrenaline.
3. Constantine was wrong that he shot down a copter. But he, like a real man, did not hide or unlock, and with the help of his comrades compensated for the damage.
4. We, as the organizing committee, always and everywhere repeat that on the territory of the festival there are laws of the Russian Federation. And this means that we will never hide, block, or promote illegal actions. But we, too, will not aggravate them, somehow somehow kindle the situation. Everything is decided by the laws of Russia. What was done, openly and honestly.
The owner of the copter has no complaints. Moreover, he proposed next year to organize a competition to bring down dragon drones, and the organizers supported this idea.