Advancing Sniper Rifles
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02 January 2013
The day draws closer when a General will be in the Pentagon, 8,000 miles away from battle, and he will signal a sniper to kill or not to kill. Taking it a step more, nothing will prevent the trigger-puller from being separated from the rifleman. The General in the Pentagon could control whether or not the rifle is active to fire.
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Of course, the 'general in his office' making the shoot/don't shoot call will also now be directly responsible, too. My guess? In most cases it'll be someone a LOT closer to the action (and much further down the food chain) that will be making the shot calls - Leaving the flag-rank officers still in a position of deniability.
All that said, I find the capabilities of this system fascinating - It may be possible to upgrade normal marksmen to effective 'designated marksman' levels capabilities. And wouldn't *that* be a nasty surprise for our enemies..?
1) Obama is smarter than to do anything that easily detected, and frankly dead soldiers will just make any agenda he has harder to execute - Dead soldiers are a *distraction* to his agenda.
2) (and more important) I can guarnatee you that a couple dozen interested parties around the world are already working on either duplicating the system, stealing it, or designing something even better. One or more of them will be certain to commercialize the results and/or hand it out to their 'friends.'
IF we are going down the long screwdriver route then legal and the AG Dept need to set up a memorandum of understanding that sniper is under orders and those giving the orders are acountable in a court- including the court of human rights in the Hauge.
Interesting, enshrined in German Law is that any soldier may disobey an order if it is against the rules of war. Seems they did learn something following the defences of "I was only obeying orders".
Of course you could just turn the darn Wi-Fi Off!
There is nothing worse than needing permission to shoot 2 seconds ago!
Urgent request to activate trigger!
Sorry buddy,
It takes how many handsoffs now to get a MEDEVAC or close air support now?
Complete BS!
Make use of it whilst we may... And start right now (if we haven't already) on figuring ways to hack/crack similar systems.
It wouldn't take much to get these pulled - just a few fractions of a % introduced error will have soldiers distrusting and disabling them right, left, and center.
TrackingPoint Demonstration
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvbyAcYjzlc
One item that occurs to me immediately is a possible reduction in the quantities of ammunition that must be humped, if the promise of this bears true.
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