Posted on 08/22/2021 10:13:42 AM PDT by PROCON
Snipers rely on specialized training, accurized, high power rifles and quality optics to reliably hit targets that are often mere specks on the horizon.
Here's What You Need to Remember: The technology does have a few downsides. If EXACTO {Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance} does use a laser designator to mark a target that laser is visible under the right circumstances, alerting those being targeted. Even worse, the laser beam will point directly to the the person lasing the target. The system will also need a long-lasting power supply, as a sniper may need to wait for hours for the opportunity to take a shot.
One of the most challenging roles in ground units is that of a military sniper. Military snipers must take long distance shots with precision rifles, often doing a fair amount of math in their heads to make a bullet reach its target. A new guided-bullet technology, however, promises to make longer distance shots a little easier by installing guidance systems in bullets.
The mission of the sniper is to take out targets at ranges farther than your typical rifleman, from five hundred yards out to two thousand yards. Snipers rely on specialized training, accurized, high power rifles and quality optics to reliably hit targets that are often mere specks on the horizon. These targets typically include anything from specialized enemy troops (engineers, heavy weapon operators) to command, control, and communications targets (radio operators, officers.) Snipers may also engage material targets, such as antennas, aircraft and light vehicles.
In addition to mere distance, snipers must contend with the technical limitations of their weapons and physics to make long range shots. Once they exit the barrel, bullets immediately start slowing down as gravity begins to exert an influence. This causes bullets to travel in a gradual downward arc.
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What is an “accurized, high power rifle”?
“Accurized”??
Gravity didn't exert any influence on those bullets while in the barrel? They were weightless in the barrel? What about in the magazine? In the chamber? In the box at the store? What kept them from floating away?
[ ak-yuh-rahyz ]
verb (used with object), ac·cu·rized, ac·cu·riz·ing.
1 to improve the accuracy of (a firearm).
I think there’s a better way. Have a special compact mount for the gun which uses servos for fine aiming, and another servo for the trigger. This mount could be put on a solid base or carried by hand with the gun inside it. It will fire multiple rounds in quick succession so obviously the gun must be capable.
The aiming system is displaying a magnified digitized image of the target sighting, and the human operator designates the desired impact point with a cursor which puts a red pip on the aiming spot and then the servo system automatically makes a best-guess aim, at which point the operator presses Fire.
The aiming system optically tracks the outgoing round and corrects the next shot as needed, and automatically fires that shot, in some cases before the first round even gets to the target. The second shot is tracked, aim is corrected, and a third shot is automatically fired. Basically walking the rounds into the target.
Three shots may not be enough, or one too many. I’d have to build it to find out.
The aiming servos concept could be expanded into a stabilized weapon platform for a rifle of any kind just about. Make the servo system capable enough, and you don’t have to be stationary while the servos aim and fire – you can be running across terrain with your weapon pointed in the general direction while the servos put rounds on the selected target.
And one more thing, it doesn’t have to be YOU running across terrain while your stabilized weapon picks the enemy apart, it can be a robot running 40 miles an hour while carrying multiple stabilized rifles.
Thanks. I had no idea. I thought it was just a made-up goofy word by an ignorant writer!
“No substitute for stealth and tactics.”
Or, ‘Old Age and Treachery!’ ;)
Or massive artillery barrage.
No they will only ban it from non_governmental use. Police will be allowed to use it. You never know when you might want to apprehend a “domestic terrorist” from a thousand yards away. Zero in on that MAGA hat as it were.
First thing I thought of.🤔
My understanding is that the time it takes for a bullet dropped from the height of the barrel, to hit the ground, is the time the bullet, fired from a level barrel, has to travel. The speed the bullet has no influence upon how long the bullet is in the air, just how far the bullet travels.
And what is the loss of velocity component due to that 1-2” rise in elevation vs the loss in velocity due to aerodynamic drag? I remain convinced that at distances up to several hundred yards, it is negligible to the point of not even being in the equation.
Yeah. I worry about that about as much as I worry about the bullet’s rotation. I’ve heard things about the Coriolis Effect, too.
Exactly. Forces at right angles to the trajectory of the bullet have ZERO influence on horizontal velocity of the bullet. And at distances up to several hundred yards, the path of the bullet is so near to perpendicular to the path of the bullet that the effects are virtually zero. And then the acceleration of the bullet after it reaches the peak elevation would virtually equal the deceleration before it reaches the peak.
Now, if you are shooting a cannon with a parabolic trajectory of several miles, that is completely different.
If you are shooting at great distances, you must take many variables into effect. The Coriolis Effect is due to the spinning bullet and thus the twist rate and direction of twist of the barrel must be taken into account. SO you have bullet velocity, crosswind velocity, ballistic coefficient of the bullet, twist rate and direction, temperature, humidity, the rotation of the earth under the path of the bullet, among other variables to deal with.
I remain convinced that the 2(+) mile sniper shot that reportedly took place in Iraq in June of 2017 was made using DARPA's self-steering bullet. There were too many unusual circumstances surrounding that shot -- not the least of which was the extreme time of flight of the bullet, which absent the tracking from a laser designator would have necessitated that the target remain predictably stationary for that long -- that make no sense at first blush but all fall into place if accept that that shot was used as a technology demonstrator for the EXACTO cartridge.
...The Coriolis Effect is due to the spinning bullet and thus the twist rate and direction of twist of the barrel must be taken into account....
You're confusing coriolis effect with spin drift. Spin drift is due to the rotating of the bullet. Coriolis effect is due to the spinning of the planet.
We will find out when they get here.
We probably left them all in Afghanistan.
Look at the never miss rifle. Extreme ADVANCED RIFLE NEVER MISSES it’s target: Sniper Rifle great for US Military
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