Stabilised rifle (US DOD)

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http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2015smallarms/17351_Rice.pdf

Interesting development, stabilising and altering the line of site of a rifle action. Cant help but wonder if in 20 years time we will have rifles you cant miss with, with the combination of guided bullets, optics that calculate elevation and hold over, and now a rifle that aims its self.
Those benchrest guns are looking as antiquated as matchlocks now...
 
Curious what happens when the technology fails in the field. We're left with "snipers" that have no more skill than the average 15 year old fps gamer...
Dosing said:
http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2015smallarms/17351_Rice.pdf

Interesting development, stabilising and altering the line of site of a rifle action. Cant help but wonder if in 20 years time we will have rifles you cant miss with, with the combination of guided bullets, optics that calculate elevation and hold over, and now a rifle that aims its self.
Those benchrest guns are looking as antiquated as matchlocks now...
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If they spent half the money on ACTUAL training that they spent on developing this stuff........
Who doesn't want to carry more batteries?
I can pretty much guarantee that if you asked the people using the equipment (pretty much all of it) what they wanted it would go something like this:
-make it weigh less
-make it smaller
-make it use LESS batteries
-make it tougher
-develop a radio that works 1/2 as well as my cell phone

That would make 90% of the people that matter happier.
 
Now if they could just get it to choose its own target, aim itself, fire and then clean itself they'd really be onto something.
 
It's all part of the idea of using technology to make people more dumber. Cars that park themselves, guns that can hit the target even if the shooter's tongue is hanging out. We need a chorine puck in the gene pool, quick! :)
 
sulisa said:
It's all part of the idea of using technology to make people more dumber. Cars that park themselves, guns that can hit the target even if the shooter's tongue is hanging out. We need a chorine puck in the gene pool, quick! :)
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Yup. ;)

However what this is all about is making the shot more accurate, in order to be able to select the target, kill them and not have to worry about collateral/follow ups under fire. And I'm sure somebody will be along shortly to say it'll make it easier for "them" to kill civilian dissidents when they become too vocal/gather a following yadda, yadda, yadda...

-S.
 
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