Posted on 10/31/2020 10:20:24 AM PDT by PROCON
I was going to ask if they were fried in vegetable oil or peanut oil? LOL.
Pork fat!
Yeah, I’d like to know where the ones that hit me in Nam came from but I have a good idea they came from an NVA soldier!!
Thank you.
Pedantic firearm nomenclature nazis are annoying.
Now I'm going to go buy some new clips for my assault rifle.
You seem like a nice guy...let’s agree they “probably” can from the NVA. Lol.
We have several other Purple Heart recipients here on FR who also 'won' these medals in Nam.
No, actually they want to know where fried bullets are coming from.
—
do you take yours with catsup or maple syrup?
“Until we’re the bad guys.”
Exactly.
I tell ya, Autocorrect has me on the wart path.
I mean, I’m really starting to latte Autocorrect.
Odds are, but sometimes not.
Pedantic firearm nomenclature nazis are annoying.
Now I’m going to go buy some new clips for my assault rifle.
—
Be sure to avoid the fried bullets
Those that do not learn the lessons of history are condemned to repeat them.
Actually, this type of problem was solved in WW1 by the Allies. They used both listening posts in no man’s land connected with telephones to commanders along with “flash” observers on the front trench lines. Then it was a few minutes with maps and trig function tables and they knew where the enemy was. They were quite good at locating and calling in artillery fire on enemy machine gun and artillery positions.
Obviously, a few spaced bullets are harder than long bursts of machine gun fire or the loud report of a cannon. However, modern infantry warfare mostly uses assault weapons and rocket propelled grenades, so it is not all that different. Besides we have computerized microphones, thermal sensors and photo sensors that can be linked on the battlefield.
Mmmmmm...bacon....
[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?]
I remember thinking, for a very brief moment, how cool green tracers (from NVA AK-47s) looked coming at me once night. Then I came to my senses and gave him a chance to ponder the beauty of orange tracers coming at him!
Ears. They pick up sound waves and send signals to the brain to determine from which direction the sound is coming. The determination can be augmented by visual clues sent from eyes and validated/ corrected/ refined by auditory input from other soldiers with ears. Usually, it’s extremely accurate. Usually.
The Maneuver Battle Lab ran an assessment of the Multimodal Hostile Fire Detection (HFD), also a BBN initiative, this past August. The HFD adds an IR sensor to triangulate the crack of the shockwave, bang of the shot, and flash from the muzzle. The system worked well against short range, unsuppressed weapons, but not so well against longer range, suppressed. Promising technology, but still needs some work to provide an instant, precise point of origin of the shooter, just my opinion.
Fried, fired, same thing. ;)
Example:
Let’s go out to the range and fry some bullets. ;)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.