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To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
It will measure atmospheric conditions, account for the weapon’s maximum effective range and include GPS coordinates. It’s also supposed to communicate with the rifle scope, informing the gun itself of the aim point offset and expected crosswind.

I may have to save my pennies for the rest of my life but it would be worth it!

4 posted on 10/10/2010 9:52:38 PM PDT by Randy Larsen ( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!(FR #1690))
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To: Randy Larsen

It sounds a bit too much like the system used by the M109 155mm howitzer, with weather balloons and radiosondes.

By the time you’ve launched the weather balloons to get real-time information about upper and lower atmospheric winds, the bad guy has killed the hostage and gotten in a car across the border in Pakistan.


9 posted on 10/11/2010 12:10:41 AM PDT by MediaMole
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To: Randy Larsen

Yeah, until you pull the trigger & get a “File 404” error message.


10 posted on 10/11/2010 1:31:40 AM PDT by rickb308 (Nothing good ever came from someone yelling "Allah Snackbar")
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