Posted on 06/02/2008 4:20:29 AM PDT by LibWhacker
View our white paper on UAV Sniper (PDF file)
Sagetech Corporation introduces UAV Sniper, a highly accurate unmanned combat air vehicle armed with a 50-caliber sniper weapon system. For the first time, the tactical targeting precision of a field sniper team will be available in an unmanned aerial platform. Employing long-range communication links, a mature system will be operable day and night from control stations thousands of miles distant, undetectably placing sniper shots with perfect confidence.
The long range precision shooting skills of the military sniper team have found increasing utility in the urban combat environment of Iraq and sparsely populated regions of Afghanistan. Unfortunately, the speed and effectiveness of a sniper team is limited by the need to find concealed firing locations in range of the adversary. The remotely operated UAV Sniper system will remove this requirement while drastically increasing capability and keeping the shooter out of harms way.
The effectiveness of the UAV Sniper vehicle will not be measured simply by the number of casualties inflicted upon the enemy. Realization of the UAV Sniper's presence would instil fear in enemy troops and influence their decisions and actions. In a close air support role, the UAV Sniper would enhance a unit's firepower and augment their means for destruction and harassment of the enemy. This role becomes more significant when the target is entrenched or positioned among civilians where firing automatic weapons would result in the wounding or killing of non-combatants.
Above. 95% shot confidence bounds at a 1500 m slant range, and an altitude of 500 m. The TAPSS full firing control system and automatic second-shot bias correction result in a significantly smaller shot dispersion. We expect a 50% probability of hitting a human sized target at this range. Human team accuracy based on ARL sniper error study [i].
unbelieveable! You can run but you’ll just die tired.
Yeah, but they can keep shooting til they get it right.
If our "government" goes "totalitarian" --- they would have a few thing to fear themselves..
This is NOT Zimbabwe..
10s of millions of armed citizens..
Millions of TRAINED veterans of combat.
All veterans are STILL under their oath of service, to DEFEND the Constitution against ALL enemies - both foreign and domestic.
A Constitution which authorizes Defense of that Constitution.
A "totalitarian" government would need a hell of a lot more that a few unmanned drones and battalions of Code Pink or Boobs not Bombs babes to make it stick...
We have both the arms and the Constitution on OUR side.
And, more than enough pissed off folks, eager to take action....
They won’t be able to walk across the Target parking lot.
This is the first thing I thought of too. On the other hand, I'm very surprised Hariuchi is still walking around.
Sweet.
Looks like the jihadis are going to start becoming more and more scarce as they loose the ability to find cover amongst women and children.
Now if they can just develop a multiple target engagement system that can track and engage 4-5 of these animals as they scurry for cover, then the war will essentially be over.
A team of loitering UAVs with mixed rifle/missile loadouts and nothing moves without permission.
If there is a new Great Depression, 2/3 of Americans will DEMAND what amounts to martial law to “fix the problem now!”
Those who don’t go along with mandatory rationing, wage price and rent controls etc, will be branded economic sabateurs and enemies of the people. 2/3 of Americans will support govt. steps to crack down on these “outlaws.”
I’m not saying it will be a cakewalk either way, because as you said, millions of us are armed and would fight to defend the “old” constitution.
That’s why I pinged the CW2 list: it would be a scrap.
I wonder what goes through Hooch’s mind when he walks across the Target parking lot.
Remember folks, this is the technology the democrats said could never work in the SDI of Ronald Reagan in the 1080s.
That motivated 1/3 could be up against some brutal tools of control, such as “brilliant data mining” to come up with the most likey enemies of the state, followed by a Sniper UAV.
It would not be quick or easy. I read what both Yanks and Rebels said circa April 1961: the war would be over by the end of summer.
Whoops-—off by a mere century.
This is not “hit a bullet with a bullet.” (Star Wars)
This is just “hit a regular old man with a regular old bullet from a new platform.”
Why not arm a UCAV with a machine gun? What’s the impetus or advantage for sniper shots from the sky?
That's hardly a government to fear, then.
You will have more moslem men in burkas, more with veils (oops scarfs over face), more wide brimmed hats, more crowds with everyone wearing the same thing.
The visual equivalent of chaff.
then again one tiny rfid chip and suddenly it is not an issue.
Don’t forget we also now have tactical lasers. Soon they will be much smaller instead of artilary scaled as with all tech. (ie bell cannons- muskets-pistols)
These molsem terrorists will have to keep significant distance from anything with a microchip.
Heh, it’s going to be interesting to see how many more mohammedan women start showing up in villages where they were in short number before.
This might just have the unintended consequence of driving women out of the veil and into mens clothing to create false targets while the burka clad cowards hide in basements.
As long as it results in fear and confusion to the enemy, I’m all for it.
And I can’t wait until energy weapons/lasers become man portable.
They may be forbidden to civilians, but once the tech gets into the wild(and it will, you can’t put a genie back once the bottle is opened) personal lasers will become available if expensive.
And Han will indeed shoot first. =-)
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