Posted on Oct 21, 2015
Are you ready for the next giant leap in weapons marksmanship?
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I am not trying to promote or endorse any business, but this was sent to me from a fellow veteran. Imagine having the target tracking/engagement capabilities of an attack helicopter adapted to your service weapon. This is currently in production and available in 5.56mm and 7.62mm. Spend the 3 minutes and evaluate how effective this could be for our mud rolling ground pounders. Should this kit be incorporated into our armed forces. With all these troop reductions I say give our forces a better toy to do the job.
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Holy smokes! Spooky good - this is a game changer. Every troop a "one round one kill" performer? You know we need this but my only concern is how do they keep their technology from being compromised by Chinese, Russian and every other hacker? How do they keep this from falling into enemy hands when a soldier is killed in combat? Thumbprint? Eye print? I am fascinated.
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SFC Mark Merino, As long as it won't jam with a little mud or dirt on it, I say Hell Yes. Whatever it takes to help our feet on the ground troops.
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I saw this on FB and my thought is it takes the marksmanship out of shooting - which is OK, we just need to get the terminology right... This (I'm sure) will never make it to an Olympic sport. It's GREAT for the military - but has nothing to do with "marksmanship" IMHO!
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SFC Mark Merino Technology always provides a better way and advancements are going to continue to improve. I think it would be awesome to have the tracking/engagement capabilities of an attack helicopter applied to every weapon in the hands of a Soldier in a combat environment but I worry about all the things that can go wrong with a system such as this. We need to ensure that Soldiers are still able to fire with iron sights and that they know how to use them, that they know to adjust for wind and curvature, that they know the conversion system, that they don't forget the importance of body position and breathing, that they know how to adjust for uphill or downhill situations. Technology is great but it doesn't replace the basics of marksmanship when needed. So a thumbs up for the technological advancement but let's hold on to our skills. :-)
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I would question long term durability. It must be interchangeable, durable fixable, easy to train and economical.
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SFC Mark Merino
If this works, especially at those 1,000m ranges they claim for 7.62, this could really rain hell on the enemy from much safer distances.
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1stSgt (Join to see)
I highly doubt this will ever happen at $7495 per unit for 5.56 vs $586 for a M16-A4
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