Canada Ping!
Posted on 02/21/2015 7:39:15 AM PST by Squawk 8888
It looks like something out of a semi-futuristic post-apocalypse movie: A hybrid of traditional weaponry with digital scopes attached and the ability to morph from a rifle into a shotgun into a grenade launcher.
Except it’s the next generation of armed warfare, improved with lessons from Afghanistan and other recent incursions — and it’s as Canadian as maple syrup.
It’s still a prototype, so it’s a long way from being in the field, but the new “smart gun” being developed with Colt Canada could one day replace the C7, the standard military weapon that’s almost identical to the M16 everyone knows from the movies.
Since 2008, the Department of National Defence, through Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC), has loaded $7.3 million into the firearm. “This exploratory work has allowed DRDC to investigate innovative technologies and other issues, such as ergonomics. Such work will allow the military to identify the most desired future weapon features,” a spokesperson in National Defence Minister Jason Kenney’s office said. The final product will be lighter than the C7 and include features that will allow for communications between the weapon and a command base. A second iteration is expected to include features to help soldiers identify military targets from civilians. Digital scopes could calculate the wind and other factors to improve accuracy. “In the medium term, this weapon concept represents a lethal, flexible general-purpose platform,” said Lt-Col Serge Lapointe of the Canadian Army said in a DRDC release. “It will be able to operate in all theatres of operations in the most complex terrain including urban areas, mountains, jungles, deserts and the Arctic.”
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Canada Ping!
Nope, no dead batteries for me!
Since it is not man fireable, a woman is required.
I’ve got a Garand and some black tips I say could make quick work of this before they’d even see me. For those long shots, the K98K with sniper scope.
Now a real killer would have immediately asked about the little red button on the bottom of the gun.
I saw that movie, too! :0)
Exactly.
The more features you add, the more chance one of them will fail.
Give me a HK MP5, add a PK rail and keep the rest of the nonsense.
I like your thinking. Add afew clips of AP Mil grade ammo as well.
I love the C7 ,but what the hell is that
Got a Swiss K-31 that doesn’t miss.
I like those... always wanted one. Isn’t that the one with the pull ring on the bolt?
It just looks like one...
Don't they all?
Same concept.
President Merkin Muffley: How is it possible for this thing to be triggered automatically and at the same time impossible to untrigger?
Dr. Strangelove: Mr. President, it is not only possible, it is essential. That is the whole idea of this machine, you know. Deterrence is the art of producing in the mind of the enemy... the FEAR to attack. And so, because of the automated and irrevocable decision-making process which rules out human meddling, the Doomsday machine is terrifying and simple to understand... and completely credible and convincing.
And it only weighs 47 pounds!
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