Laser Guided Smart Bullets
polycounter lvl 15
um, yes please! :poly123:
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/2009-06/smart-bullets
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/2009-06/smart-bullets
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Now as the evolution of the sniper rifle......I see the possibilities.
john
crazy shit though.
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did you see the example pic? exploding over a trench. or shooting through a window and exploding inside. doesn't look like it'll be a direct hit type of weapon but more of a splash damage round. Hits more targets that might not be kills, but good enough to take a person out of the fight and require another combatant to aid them. that is if they even give a damn about wounded comrades.
Because the word 'bullet' means a projectile, and this is an airburst grenade.
Bronco, you handle it the same way you do this
or any other special weapon. You dont have the guy carrying it walk alone down roads with enemy combatants on the other side. Or the same way they handled the old 'how do men with crossbows fight men with swords?' idea. They dont.
Kind of a shame we're going to have to do it the hard way with thinking and voting and shit.
i can think of about a million other better things that the r&D money that went in to this could have been better used for.
the TOW missile, which got about the same functionality, has a fail ratio of 26%.
this being a new system, will probably be more along the 40% fail range.
there's problems with laser range finders too. smoke will scatter the laser, borking the tracking,
the fins could get jammed, the CPU might have production faults (especially since the US army goes for the lowest bidder), in addition, dirt could cover up the laser, and bumping the rifle grenades into stuff could cause malfunctions.
oh and cost. the TOW missile, which got the same functionality, but in a much larger scale,
is 180 000$,
a javelin missile is 86 000$
science? pah, this is hardly even rehash engineering.
all they've done is scale down a TOW guidance system into a rifle grenade.
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I figured this out when I saw the active denial system.
The original version of this was a 7.62mm battle rifle with an underslung/detachable 25mm caseless smart round launcher/rifle. I think I first heard of that in like 2003. I figured they'd have to separate them simply for weight considerations
is anybody here aware
this happened?
they don't even need body armour, those puny 5.56mm bullets the army uses simply doesn't have enough power to punch through all that lard.
and then these guys will start fucking shit up as well.
"Hey George. We you ain't the boss of us anymore."
<wait 1 month>
"Oh yeah? Well take this!"
<wait another month>
"Alright guys the war is here."
The trouble really would be getting a revolution started and or organized. A violent revolution would be at a severe disadvantage technologically, but it would still be possible if done right.
Frankly if you could organize enough people into a revolutionary force here you could organize more than that to vote your candidate of choice into whatever office you wanted. :Shrug:
With a chainsaw attachment (obviously).
thats true. but as fast as the government can react today, the populace is well connected as well, with internet, mobile phones, and such.
basically things will just go quicker now than back then.
the revolution could be over in a month.
I read/heard that it only took 1% of the population to revolt that last time, however they didn't have instantaneous mass media to content with which would most certainly be used as a 'weapon'. But there'd have to be a critical mass where the authorities would kill so indiscriminately that it'd turn even their supporters off what they were doing.
Slightly OT, what the heck is that guy holding in the first photo above?
The American Revolution was a private militia against a larger government army, but that was before guerrilla tactics were the norm for fighting wars, so the revolutionary forces had a pretty big edge by using them.
That was also when, like, everyone (all of them) had guns too. And there was no mass media of any kind to overstimulate the vast majority of would-be revo fighters into a perpetual haze of confusion and complacency. You can ask any given American today who their favorite Idol contestant was from the past few years, and there's about an 80% chance they'll give you an informed answer. Ask them about who their city or state elected officials are, or who was running in the last (non-presidential) election, or what specific information they know about what's been going on with "the economy" lately, and see if they can make a coherent sentence. (I probably couldn't, and I actually care)
Also: Holy crap, those are some expensive weapons. Who even ends up with all that missile money? If they'd run it back through the lower end of the economic wormhole, the country's money issues would be solved. But what do weapon moguls need to buy from the non-wealthy?
OICW: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective_Individual_Combat_Weapon_program
So what do we have here? Some minor advance on exsisting, relatively cheap(not anywhere near as expensive as you guys would be lead to believe) technology. Also, the thought that these would be given to every grunt is well, misguided at best.
P.S - EQ whut do u no ?
Damn you EQ and beating me to this.
What I don't get is why this gun doesn't have a rifle as well for those instances when your target blunders around the corner to shoot at you while you're busy dialing shit in. The OICW's underslung gun or something like the AICW where the whole thing is just mounted to an Aug seems like a better idea.
Also nthing the "title is misleading as fuck"
yeah just need to send in the silly nade monkeys from COD4 multiplayer into the frontline
Real life is starting to get really scary.