Been in development for a few years . First I saw of the (not this one specificly) same sort of system was Bosnia.......
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Posted on 07/20/2002 4:10:03 PM PDT by knighthawk
WASHINGTON: Israeli marksmen and counter-terror squads deployed along the Palestinian areas of the West Bank are field-testing a new anti-sniper system designed for the early detection of enemy snipers, media reports said.
The anti-sniper system, Believer is completing the developmental testing under actual urban warfare conditions and awaits approval for the full rate production, Defence News Weekly quoted Israeli officials as saying.
The system that costs around 2 million dollars per copy, can detect the enemy sniper within one-third of a second tracing the bullet path and it either return fire automatically or reveal the exact sniper location to the tactical field commanders.
Been in development for a few years . First I saw of the (not this one specificly) same sort of system was Bosnia.......
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I would think that for the mid term this type of system would be best for the protection of long term fixed positions where all the local acoustic geometry and anomolies can be debugged thoroughly. That is to say, protecting an Israeli neighborhood or settlement from the enemy, or high value fixed targets such as 1600 PA Ave etc.
I don't think this will be the type of system which would just be rolled up to a new site and prove effective right away, but I could be wrong.
Countermeasures? Cover the lens until the last moment, shoot and scoot? What else to do?
I must assume that if this is getting print today, the USSS has had it for years.
This sounds impressive! How goes the book?
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TS
A a Marine I could deliver headshots with nine rounds out of every ten rounds from 600 yards out using only a peephole sight.
If this system works by detecting the optics that snipers use....it wont be picking off any Marine Corps Riflemen anytime soon.
While on float in the Med aboard the Marine Corps WASP. They zipped a drone overhead and let the gatling gun loose on it...
That thing pulled up and began to track....then all you heard was one low, constant VROOOM.
Then we all got a nice frosting of softly descending drone pieces.
BTW, I read that Israeli General Moshe Dayan earned his eyepatch while looking over a berm through binocs. The mulitple lenses slowed the Egyptian bullet down a lot, but not enough.
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Probably a little more high speed then that.
I must assume that if this is getting print today, the USSS has had it for years.
Bingo! The was one of the obvious thoughts about this - how long has it been deployed already? How long was the F-117 around before they became widely known?
The PILAR-MKII is the portable ground based version of gun shot detection and localization system with two antennas linked to a CPU for combined processing. From the detection of acoustic waves of the passing bullet (shock wave) and the firing weapon (muzzle blast) the system yields and records, using patented signal-processing algorithms
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