On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 9:35 PM, <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
There are other ways of doing this that don't involve lighting yourself up.


I googled "shooting around corners" and most of what came up looked to be various video camera systems (at least one installed on a rifle the stock of which BENT in the middle).

The only one I noticed that didn't involve "another thing to carry batteries for" was a clip-on extension for the back of a set of sights that let you look into the sight from the side. But then, what are the chances that clip-on item would get lost in fairly short order?


 As for pre-tagging a spot - that's all very well and good, but that means
that when the target sticks their head up in a slightly different place . . .

It seems likely that the gun uses some kind of limited 3D target recognition (they say several times that "the laser fires 54 times per second") but I doubt it's actually smart enough to scan for a target autonomously.
 
, you either get no
shot (took you too long because you had to decide you needed a manual shot, and to
select that), or you get a miss because the gun puts the shot somewhere else (where
the tag was).

Since you have to press the red button to tag, I suspect that if you were to pull the trigger WITHOUT previously pressing said button, you just get a manual shot. At least, I *hope* that's what would happen?

As to putting the shot somewhere else, if the system IS using 3D scanning, then if it loses the scan it would also lose the tag
 
That it could cut down on ammo requirements by being more efficient is appealing,
except that I doubt that this is what would happen in practice. Modern armies seem
constitutionally incapable of reducing soldier's loads.

Speaking of reducing loads and all those batteries to carry . . . why don't they give everyone one of those modern hand-crank generators that are about the size of a smart phone?
 
Now, as a demonstrator of some tech that would work nicely on a drone (either
airborne or a ground vehicle) it's quite interesting,

I think it would be really snazzy to put on a manual door/turret gun. One shot, one kill on a running target from a moving vehicle!

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