Posted on 10/16/2021 12:03:25 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
On September 9, Israel defense company Elbit announced the ARCAS, or Assault Rifle Combat Application System. The device is a combination of a gunsight, operating system, and an augmented reality display. If it proves useful in combat, it heralds a future in which soldiers not only aim rifles, but where the rifles tell soldiers information about who they are aiming at.
ARCAS is an after-market add-on to existing rifles, converting the familiar weapon of infantry into the central node in an array of sensor-rich technologies. Elbit is marketing it for both Special Operations forces, who are accustomed to training with specialized gear, and regular infantry, who need weapons to be dead simple.
The laundry list of features that ARCAS adds to a rifle include features that help a soldier shoot more accurately, like passive range measurement and automatic ballistic correction. With the right sensors, ARCAS can detect where hostile gunfire is coming from, and let the wearer know of any movement seen on its video cameras. By allowing the soldier to aim through a camera connected to a heads-up display, the rifle can be fired from the hip and around corners, two kinds of shooting difficult to pull off with a traditional down-the-barrel sight.
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I never shot around corners. That’s what ‘nades are for.
Once upon a time, the Army experimented with curved barrels on the old M3 Grease Gun.
For tankers preventing the local nationals from jamming his tracks.
https://www.guns.com/news/2015/12/09/the-m3-submachine-gun-lets-get-greasy
Close with and engage the enemy. If you’re depending on tech like this to win a gunfight, you’ve already lost.
Oh good, I can hardly wait til Biden sells this technology the all our enemies. While simultaneously hunting down non vaxxers who have more than $600 in their bank accounts and disagree with their local school board on teaching the sexual proclivities of Sophisticated Transexual Midgets.
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