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Ammunition, not bullets.
Hillary Clinton’s State Dept.
Any more questions?
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.
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.
You mean “shot spotter?”
They have that in our city. I guess you could put two mics up and triangulate with an iPhone app.
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!!
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.
[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?]
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.
Good research.
It is sometimes very difficult to determine a threats location given certain terrain, weather etc.
OODA loop can be useful.
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"#2 Son" (recently-retired as CSM) made the great western sweep around Kuwait with the 82nd Airborne in Desert Storm. His unit made it all the way to An Nasiriyah, on the Euphrates River.
Son: "As we approached the Euphrates, we started taking sniper fire from the trees along the river..."
Then he changed subjects...
Dad (...later...) "What about those snipers in the trees?"
Son: "What trees...?" :-)
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TXnMA '-)
(AKA "overwhelming firepower"...)
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"#2 Son" (recently-retired as CSM) made the great western sweep around Kuwait with the 82nd Airborne in Desert Storm. His unit made it all the way to An Nasiriyah, on the Euphrates River.
Son: "As we approached the Euphrates, we started taking sniper fire from the trees along the river..."
Then he changed subjects...
Dad (...later...) "What about those snipers in the trees?"
Son: "What trees...?" :-)
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TXnMA '-)
(AKA "overwhelming firepower"...)
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"#2 Son" (recently-retired as CSM) made the great western sweep around Kuwait with the 82nd Airborne in Desert Storm. His unit made it all the way to An Nasiriyah, on the Euphrates River.
Son: "As we approached the Euphrates, we started taking sniper fire from the trees along the river..."
Then he changed subjects...
Dad (...later...) "What about those snipers in the trees?"
Son: "What trees...?" :-)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
TXnMA '-)
(AKA "overwhelming firepower"...)
A reasonable refinement is the ability of an orbiting drone to locate, target, and fire grenades at the source of incoming fire, using the same tech.
Enemy bullets usually come from enemy guns. You pick up on this pretty quick on the battlefield. Sometimes you have to watch out for friendly fire too, which is really not all that friendly, believe it or not.