A small, rugged quadruped drone designed to accompany dismounted infantry, able to cover a range of tasks remotely and provide various levels of electronic support to accompanying infantry and vehicles.
The Q-PED's primary contribution is providing an infantry-level electronics support suite, including a mounted 170 degree frontal radar and 360 degree LIDAR mapping
Basic unfolding animation test. The Q-PED needs minimal vehicular support in order to be deployed and can be carried on top of simple flat beds or inside of most transport aircraft.
Outfitted with a full suite of IR smoke launchers, 5 hard kill counter measures able to defeat mortars and RPGs, and a triple rack of single use grenade launchers.
The Q-PED is capable of considerable stowage capacity to extend a squad's operational duration without use of resupply points or a transport vehicle. Standard operational procedure is to store excess munitions and drinking water.
The side racks can be configured for extra stowage capacity, by default it is possible to strap stand infantry rucks to the sides, and in dedicated transport roles the radome can be removed and a dedicated stowage truss attached to the top of the Q-ped.
A tablet computer for blanket interfacing with the Q-PED allows operators to perform remote operations with the drone or carry out standard maintenance and tuning in the field.
Big shoutout to Alex Noax for feedback and general modo wizardry tips <3
I really wanted to push my self a bit in modo and make something where I used minimal photoshop post work and went as far as i could in 3d to present the design, including textures. (I ended up with literally zero photoshop work outside of design iteration, so big success), and create a simple rig and animation to demonstrate movement instead of relying on a breakout with arrows.
