Self-Aiming Sniper Rifles Coming Next Year

Foxnews ^ | Oct 1, 2010 | Rebecca Boyle

[1rudeboy]

IT WAS HOT on the roof. Above, the sky was fast-forward: zeppelin fleets of cloud alternating with ragged anarchic flags of black. Bright stars, mil- and comsats, meteors, junk. Moh Kohn crouched behind the parapet and scanned the band of trees half a klick beyond the campus perimeter. Glades down, the dark was a different shade of day. He held the gun loose, swung it smoothly, moved around to keep cool. The building's thermals gave him all the cover he could expect, enough to baffle glades or IR-eyes that far away.
"Gaia, it's hot," he muttered.
"Thirty-one Celsius," said the gun.
He liked hearing his gun. It gave him a wired feeling.

Ken MacLeod, The Star Fraction.

[Chode]

[deoetdoctrinae]

"I think I read a book by Stephen Hunter on this very thing."

Yep, and as usual, Bob the Nailer came out on top.

[Doug in CA]

You did, “I,Sniper”. I thought it was a good read.

[OldPossum]

This appears to be part of Western civilization’s continuing development of superior military arms that Victor Davis Hanson writes about in “Carnage and Culture.”

American technology is a formidable force, isn’t it?

[Renderofveils]

It also means that when the cute little widget breaks, the operator likely has no clue how to go “old school” and get the job done.

Or they'll be so out of practice that even knowing how to get the job done, it would be likely that the results wouldn't come out in their favor. Even better, "Sorry I couldn't make that shot, my gear broke."

[Jack Hydrazine]

What would be cool is to team up this auto-aiming rifle with smart bullets called BLAMs.

http://www.shadowspear.com/vb/showthread.php?1482-The-Smart-Bullet

http://www.snipercountry.com/Articles/SmartBullets.asp

[Mariner]

It it DOES work, I want one...

[Tainan]

You "Luddite"...technology is yer buddy...lol.

Now, myself, I'm waiting for the pale-skinned fella in the back room to finish up on his 2 oz. picatinny snap-on pistol version with the non-locating brief blast lazer designator range-finder with a GPS selector switch mod of this...then he can finish up on the one that also finds where the fish are swimming.

[Roccus]

I would not call that very sportsman letting a computer bag your limit.:

For me, "sportsman" has nothing to do with it. I want meat, so hunting is just grocery shopping with a gun.

[snooter55]

bump fer later

[dfwgator]

“You’ll shoot your eye out.”

[NVDave]

Oh, I’m quite sure of that. It will join the wide array of crap sold to hunters that a) they don’t need, and b) doesn’t make them better hunters, much less c) makes them better shots.

For the amount of money someone would spend on this widget, they could gain much more by buying ammo and just practicing their shooting.

I’ve always been confounded at the hunters who claim that they need (among other things): a rifle that will group 0.5 MOA (or less), the latest cammo, GPS systems, 6.5 to 20X optics (or, back east, optics at all - with exceptions for those who have eyesight issues that make iron sights hard for them), muzzle brakes (been down this road myself, and they’re worse than useless), bipods, ATV’s that cost $7000, blah, blah, blah.

[TigersEye]

If it can return accurate fire from a surburban doing 70 mph down a pot hole filled road then by all means develop an deploy.

Forget the weapons system. I want that suburban.

[CGASMIA68]

I get your point,but, if you have the means to purchase a computerized firearm than I am sure you would also have the means to go to the store and buy meat

[Roccus]

I’ll wait ‘till they come down in price like color TVs and VCRs. ;)

[Red in Blue PA]

Girls get much hotter when they can shoot a gun like that.