I don't see how what you expressed is different using this tech or using a highly skilled marksman. All this tech is controls the release timing and elevation. It still is the same lack of control after the firing. The shooter in either case has the ability to wait to shoot if it appears a target is moving or about to move.
This type of shooting isn't my thing either, but our military does have need to do this type of shooting. This tech may bring more successful missions due to allowing more shooters be capable of those shots. The guys with more money than sense, help fund this technology. I like that over pure taxpayer funding for the development.
Meh. We’re on the same page, thack, but I’m old fashioned when it comes to shooting. My uncles, both USMC snipers in VN, taught me how to shoot. It takes patience, practice, and intelligence to make a long shot kill. It’s completely unnatural to look down the barrel of a gun and see sky when shooting at something on a hilltop 300 m away, but when you make that shot, see that plume of red fly up in the air, and watch that buck drop like a sack of hammers, there’s something incredibly satisfying to know you took that animal humanely and with the skill that many don’t have or want.