On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Douglas Berry <dberry49xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

For more traditional infantry applications, there are two problems. Troops tend to do everything they can to blend in and avoid being exposed for more than a few seconds, and being an active emitter on a battlefield is dangerous. The immediate countermeasure I thought of was a laser sensor link to a sentry gun.

Which would cure folks of zapping every suspicious-looking lump with the laser rangefinder, I suppose.

DId you find the video where they talk about using it to shoot around corners and over barricades?

Richard Aiken

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