Posted on 05/26/2010 8:17:49 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Lockheed Martin a $3.93 million contract to develop a rifle-scope attachment to enhance soldiers’ marksmanship capabilities.
The Dynamic Image Gunsight Optic or DInGO system will enable soldiers to accurately view targets at varying distances without changing scopes or suffering a decrease in optical resolution. The system will enhance soldiers’ ability to accurately hit targets at a range of between three and 600 meters.
DInGO automatically calculates the range with a low power laser rangefinder, digitally zooms in on it and accounts for environmental conditions such as wind using sensors built into the scope. It then projects the bullet’s point-of-impact calculated from the embedded ballistics computer.
“Current scopes are optimized for a single target range, impacting soldiers’ effectiveness and survivability when engaging targets at different distances during a single mission,” said Dan Schultz, vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin’s Mission Systems & Sensors Ship & Aviation Systems business. “DInGO will solve this problem, significantly increasing soldiers’ ability to rapidly reconfigure optics for use from short to long ranges and improving marksmanship capabilities for all soldiers.”
DInGO is based on Lockheed Martin’s One Shot Advanced Sighting System, which utilizes similar precision engagement technology to automatically transmit crosswind information to a long-range sniper’s scope and modify the crosshairs to display exactly where the bullet will strike.
DARPA awarded Lockheed Martin an 18-month, $9.7 million contract in 2008 to integrate One Shot’s new crosswind measurement technology into a prototype spotter scope – a small telescope that is carried by sniper teams and is used to bring far-away objects into close view. During tactical field tests in December 2009, snipers were able to engage targets twice as quickly and increase their probability of a first-round hit by a factor of two using the One Shot
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Just think! Back in the day, these guys made aircraft.
Seems the Brits have a rifle & scope that we should buy.
A sniper took out 2 Taliban from over 1 1/2 MILES away.
I want one!
Thats one disturbing looking Dingo...
Me too. It will end up in the civilian market like night vision.
Neat-o!
At that range no scope can guarantee you’ll hit what you’re aiming at given shifting wind resistance and target movement.
Who, pray tell, uses a scope at three meters?
/johnny
/johnny
No one. Its the range capability.
Exactly. This is going to be very ccol.
It sounds good, but I can’t imagine the “wind sensor” part working very effectively.
That said, I could sure use one for elk hunting.
May I suggest Stephen Hunter’s latest novel, “I, Sniper.” Looks like reality is catching up with fiction.
Sounds like they are asking for range-spoofing problems as seen in autofocus cameras — where it range-locks on a foreground bush instead of the distant target. Limiting the lower end to combat range should minimize that effect.
I would like to see the end product.
I’ll take two!
Me too! Wonder how they measure crosswinds - Laser Doppler?
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