Comments on: New Scope Automatically Matches Magnification to Target Range

By: tbeasley

tbeasley — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:15:44 +0000

this is a joke!
“automatically transmit crosswind information to a sniper’s scope and move the crosshairs to show the corrected point of aim” Ok? that will work if your shooting say to 300yds, after that the wind can be 5-10mph different from the shooter to the target and this Star-Trek gun won’t even notice. Why don’t they just train hound dogs to read wind for us since they already have good nose’s.

By: JPeelen

JPeelen — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:52:58 +0000

People tend to overlook that such a device only works as advertised if the ballistic computer is fed with correct trajectory data of the used ammunition lot from the individual rifle. Also the rifle zero with this ammunition has to be determined with utmost accuracy.
Especially the latter point is much more difficult than usually appreciated.
Contrary to what Mr. Shultz says, such a device neither improves the ability to steadily hold the rifle nor to operate the trigger without jerking or any other “marksmanship capability”.
I am not at all opposed to such devices but they should be viewed with at least some realism.

By: Editor

Editor — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:02:01 +0000

No need to check Snopes. This program is going forward, that’s for real. See:

http://www.lockheedmartin.com/news/press_releases/2010/052610_LM_DARPA_rifle-scope.html

By: mike

mike — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:45:49 +0000

I’ll have to check Snopes. But this is either an obvious joke, or more rat holing of taxpayer dollars.
Although $3.93 divided 250m ways provided comical relief in a sense..