Headline implies it can already down drones. Body copy says they're underway.
To: PROCON
2 posted on
01/09/2019 11:42:38 AM PST by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: carriage_hill
Poor suckers downrange might get clobbered—enemy or friendly.
3 posted on
01/09/2019 11:44:56 AM PST by
SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
To: carriage_hill
the .50-Cal has naturally been thought of as largely an area weapon able to lay down suppressive fireNot for the snipers who use the Barrett M82.
4 posted on
01/09/2019 11:46:51 AM PST by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Anything youÂ’ve ever said will be used against you.)
To: carriage_hill
I remember our boy Chuck Schumer referring to .50 caliber BMG rounds as “bullets the size of bananas!!!”
5 posted on
01/09/2019 11:47:03 AM PST by
dainbramaged
(If you want a friend, rescue a pit bull.)
To: carriage_hill
A 50 cal heavy machine gun with auto laser aiming mechanism. That’s a scary thought. Mounted in the back of a plckup truck that is one hell of a mobile weapon I hope I never run into on the wrong end.
To: carriage_hill
Probably similar or identical to the technology here:
https://www.tracking-point.com/
If so, I almost feel sorry for the people on the downrange side of that.
13 posted on
01/09/2019 12:30:36 PM PST by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
To: carriage_hill
Sounds like they’re talking about a scaled down C-RAM.
To: carriage_hill
"slue-to-cue" Kris Osborn needs a clue.
It's "slew-to-cue."
18 posted on
01/09/2019 12:44:20 PM PST by
Yo-Yo
( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: carriage_hill
Something just made me remember. The .50 cal. machine gun is 100 years old. I have a photo I got off the internet showing John Browning firing his .50 caliber in Colt’s Pasture, Hartford Connecticut. It is dated November 1918.
Because WWI ended that same month, the Army didn’t adopt it until several years later.
23 posted on
01/09/2019 1:19:39 PM PST by
yarddog
To: carriage_hill
I'd bet the ole vintage quad could still do the job if called on.
28 posted on
01/09/2019 1:53:55 PM PST by
CodeJockey
(Trump... The exorcist of Cultural Marxism)
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32 posted on
01/09/2019 2:32:38 PM PST by
PROCON
('Progressive' is a Euphemism for Totalitarian)
To: carriage_hill
Sgt. Hathcock, USMC, hit a man riding a bicycle with an M2 that he’d welded a scope mount onto at nearly a mile away.
Clumsy sentence, maybe, but it made my point.
L
33 posted on
01/09/2019 3:08:08 PM PST by
Lurker
(President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
To: carriage_hill
A lot of calculations must be computed. Many, many variables.
34 posted on
01/09/2019 3:12:04 PM PST by
Blood of Tyrants
(Twitter is Trump's laser pointer and the media are all cats.)
To: carriage_hill
That setup would be perfect for mounting on the southern border wall.
40 posted on
01/09/2019 3:42:28 PM PST by
dsc
(Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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41 posted on
01/09/2019 3:49:12 PM PST by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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