 RL:Smartscopes on their way, one step closer to smartlink |
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 Jun 27 2010, 05:44 PM
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Prime Runner  Group: Members Posts: 3,803 Joined: 3-February 08 From: Finland Member No.: 15,628  |
Once more the world takes a step closer to having smartlinked guns
Would be nice to get to shoot a rifle with a scope that contains both of those think mentioned there. |
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Jun 27 2010, 08:19 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 746 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 459 |
-- So it's a scope with integrated laser rangefinder and wind compensator? The only novel aspect appears to be the latter.
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Jun 27 2010, 08:34 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,803 Joined: 3-February 08 From: Finland Member No.: 15,628 |
QUOTE (Tzeentch @ Jun 27 2010, 11:19 PM)  -- So it's a scope with integrated laser rangefinder and wind compensator? The only novel aspect appears to be the latter. combine that with the other scope's mentioned in the article ability to show how much your bullets is gonna drop in the given distance and you make long range shooting a helleva lot easier. |
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Jun 27 2010, 10:53 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,705 Joined: 5-October 09 From: You are in a clearing Member No.: 17,722 |
Yeah, ballistics tables are basically a known with any rifle you can shoot in a controlled setting. There's no reason a soldier has to do bullet drop math anymore. I've been waiting for something like this to hit the field.
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Jun 27 2010, 11:38 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 312 Joined: 3-March 10 Member No.: 18,237 |
Scary thought when these are available on the market.
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Jun 28 2010, 04:39 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 588 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 227 |
For long range shooting, the good old fashioned "image scope" or "image magnification" vision is a better piece of tech (in terms of potential benefit) than the smartlink. The think that is impressive about the smartlink is that it gives a fairly hefty bonus even at very short ranges, where windage and bullet drop are irrelevant. It a great CQB tool. I don't see this getting any closer to such a benefit (though it would certainly be a nice feature in an imaging scope).
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Jun 28 2010, 06:12 PM
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Moving Target Group: Validating Posts: 151 Joined: 27-August 05 From: MI / USA Member No.: 7,628 |
Thanks for the link.
AJC |
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