Posted on 07/22/2008 11:27:48 AM PDT by LibWhacker
How are you suppose to dial-in your sights when you don’t know how much ‘drop’ your going to get?
Perhaps if we used our military to fight wars instead of police actions we wouldnt need this.
Brits.
World’s biggest silencer?
two questions. 1) is that for real? and 2) what the hell is that?
I don’t think I’d want to take it into combat, that’s for sure. Even patrolling the streets as a cop, I wouldn’t want it. A situation could turn deadly in an instant and you might only have two-tenths of a second to react... Sure wouldn’t want to be fiddling with some knob setting before I could fire.
what the heck is that and where do I get one?
The tank as primer?
Set Beeber to stune!
Then beam me up Scotty!
“You want a soldier to decide whether to set his rifle on kill or stun?
Read the article.
From said article: “Lund says that the new weapon system will use different types of bullet for lethal and non-lethal use.”
Don’t feel bad, though. The “expert” quoted in the article didn’t apparently read it either:
“Steve Wright, a security expert at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK warns of the potential risk of variable lethality. “In a high-stress, high-personal-risk zone, there will be a real temptation for soldiers to turn the tuneable lethality switch up to ‘kill’ mode so that all doubt is removed.” “
Bottom line, the soldier will use whatever ammo the chain of command issues. I can see maybe issuing a mix of ammo based on the circumstance, loaded in different magazines — regular mags for regular ammo, orange mags for less-than-lethal, for example. “
I read the article and I also happen to target shoot. If you vary the speed of a projectile you will destroy the accuracy of the firearm, unless you add in expensive and error-prone compensating optical systems.
People who actually own and understand firearms recognize the need for consistency, which is why many handload. We are looking for precise, repeatable muzzle velocity. Not some Yugo to SR71 variable speed wonder bullet that does everything.
Gimmickry from people who do not understand weapons systems.
whatever it is, it looks like that panzer is gettin’ jiggy wit it.
`fess up, what is that thang?
How baby howitzers are made?
One can buy ratshot rounds, or one can buy Hydrashocks.
Now Fund Me. :-)
How baby howitzers are made?
That’s what I wuz thinkin’. Looks pornographic, don’t it?
Good post. It seems like they could just experiment with a teflon shell filled with plastic shot. I don’t see how that would ruin the lethality of a regular loaded round that was shot right afterwards.
If I shoot at someone, I don’t want to wound or bruise. I want to kill the sucker and preferably atomize him.
I don’t want to be sued by some dirtbag cripple, for wingin’ him.
I used to work for an MBA dealer. I could have bought those things all day long for about $80 and the ammo less than a dollar a round. Had more important things to spend money on, sigh.....
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