[billorites]

Check out the video at the link.

Ars Technica has a quite detailed article plus some amusing comments as well.

[muawiyah]

one way to do it ~ on the other hand, returning to the original Chinese idea ~ little rockets ~ putting a computer controlled guidance system on board the projectile is better.

Just access an ap on your cellphone to fire at and hit your selected target ~ even around corners.

[American in Israel]

I hate Aim Bots.

[grobdriver]

As someone who not only isn't a marksman but pretty much avoids guns altogether

Well what is this dufus doing at the SHOT show, much less reporting on the SHOT show?

[Carriage Hill]

Can’t miss Ping.

[PapaBear3625]

Mount the gun on a UAV quadrotor, and you have an aerial remote sniper.

[central_va]

81 mm mortar rounds, just get it close...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Phased plasma rifle in a 40 watt range?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Wow. Snipers will no longer need a spotter. The US military will lock up this technology right quick.

There's no way the Gubmint would take a chance on this falling into the hands of a sufficiently 'motivated' or insane citizen.

[Sir Napsalot]

>>> Futuristic rifle turns novice into sharpshooter

IF ONLY I can get my hands on a mini gun ..... and don’t have to worry about the ammo

I don’t have to worry about being a sharpshooter.

[alloysteel]

This makes the AR-type rifles pretty much in the same category as air rifles or crossbows.

The aiming capabilities puts this device in the class of a great assassination mechanism. I can see its distribution and application subject to some very serious limitations.

But the principles and the proven possibility it CAN be constructed, means that somebody else, somewhere, can replicate the design, or a similar line of engineering could result in the same outcome.

Some garage tinkerer somewhere could be in the business of constructing these appliances for private operators.

And THAT should scare the pants off the social engineers who want to “fundamentally change” the United States.

[par4]

It's all well and good until the "novice" marksman flinches as he pulls the trigger. At 700 yards, that flinch is probably 10'.

At that range your heartbeat is a factor.

[skinkinthegrass]

!?

[Blood of Tyrants]

I predict another liberal freak out.

[Terry L Smith]

I quote: “It all goes back to “Top Gun.” In the heads-up display on Maverick’s Tomcat, you can see a computer compensate for human aim with precision laser guidance and careful calculations.”

BLOODY FREDDING EXCUSE ME!

ONCE AGAIN, A TALKING MUFFINHEAD HAS NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT!

As an F-4 McDonnell Douglas Phantom radar maintenance assistant shop chief, I will tell you. The ‘heads-up display’ (HUD), was “not to compensate for human aim”, at all. The weapons control system, that tracks and locks onto another aircraft, launches a missle to intercept that aircraft, computes and drops bombs onto ground targets, and acts as an aiming device, using the locked on radar, is an autonomous electronic package. All the information of navigation, and the weapons control system, is relayed to the pilot, through the HUD.

PEON NEWSCASTER!

[martin_fierro]

[SVTCobra03]

Or you could get one of these:

http://www.barrett.net/optics/bors

[TexasRepublic]

A Linux-powered scope! That’s worthy of a thread right there. How long before the MS crowd shows up to debunk it?