Posted on 10/31/2020 10:20:24 AM PDT by PROCON
They are testing a new high-tech sound direction-detection system.
Imagine a small recon unit of Army soldiers was advancing through hostile terrain on a high-risk scouting mission to find points of entry for a major follow-on armored ground assault. What if it was suddenly hit, even overwhelmed, with a massive array of enemy small arms fire? The soldiers take casualties, run for cover and immediately engage the enemy, yet the attackers are obscured from view. Where exactly is the enemy fire coming from? What if soldiers could immediately know the source of incoming fire?
Perhaps a sniper is, by design, hidden in leaves, brush or other kinds of camouflage? Wouldn’t it be useful to destroy the attacker before more soldiers were hit? If a small area of attacking fire were precisely identified, perhaps the recon unit could call for immediate air support to blanket the enemies with suppressive fire from above?
These prospects are now a reality.
Traveling at supersonic speeds, a bullet exiting a gun barrel generates acoustic “shock waves” propagating through the air from the tip of the projectile, producing a sound “signature” which can be detected by specially engineered sensors, according to Raytheon BBN engineers.
This technical process, simply put, saves lives as it enables soldiers to instantly know the exact location of incoming enemy small arms fire, offering an opportunity for a precise and lethal counterattack amid high-intensity combat. A technology which does this, made by a Raytheon subsidiary called BBN, already exists and has been deployed with U.S. Army soldiers. It’s called Boomerang, and a set of six different sensors can instantly find the source of incoming bullets from moving vehicles and stationary locations.
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Ammunition, not bullets.
Hillary Clinton’s State Dept.
Any more questions?
No, actually they want to know where fried bullets are coming from.
fried = fired.
Sigh...I’m out.
This extends the natural ability of the human ear to sense where sound is coming from. Bullets extend the reach and power of our arms...
Until we’re the bad guys.
noun
noun: bullet; plural noun: bullets
1.
a metal projectile for firing from a rifle, revolver, or other small firearm, typically cylindrical and pointed, and sometimes containing an explosive.
They’ve been developing this for years and it’s working out a lot better than they thought it would.
Well, technology helps, but perhaps the Army should consider looking at American Democrats ...
China. The enemy bullet are coming from China.
(Proudly posting without reading the article since 1997)
2020 and we’re still shooting at each other.
A little too whack-a-mole for my tastes.
Respectfully, nossir.
Ammunition is what the enemy fires. The bullet is what comes at the soldier.
Chicken-fried bullets?
Indeed. Your fired for being fried.
You mean “shot spotter?”
They have that in our city. I guess you could put two mics up and triangulate with an iPhone app.
Yup...Auto correct is my worst enema.
I am so sick of Autocorrect’s shirt.
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