'Intelligent' Rifle Lets You Pre-Tag Your Target, Then Fire When Ready

I could really use this in CS:GO haha!!!!
(queue the Terminator theme)

This is such a relief over the prospect of being shot to death with a 'dumb' firearm. I'll sleep better now.

Fly over with a drone, land the drone, target and ready.

Here little kitty kitty, terriost. Ka-BAMMY!

Fly home.

Although this is nice initially, when the price comes down and the technology proliferates, this will be more of an advantage for terrorists and criminals since they tend to have less training than military and police and are less accurate. All of a sudden the bad guys can aim as well as the good guys with a short tutorial on the system.

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Yup, the criminals do tend to buy the best weapons eventually and us common folk just keep the simple stuff. YIKES!

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This device/system is interesting, but all I see in the video is it being used against perfectly still targets. I will be much more impressed if they get it to work on a moving target. That being said, it will likely be awesome against those non-moving targets.

Most of the (thankfully few)short range active shooter situations I have been in were more about speed on target - as accuracy was a part of muscle memory from drill work.

While optics are nice, instinctual aim is always better, as it greatly reduces the time to target. Adding in time for a target confirmation would have your torso airconditioned before you could use them.

For long range shooting, computer calculations are already utilized (there is even a handy little sniper app for your IPhone to do the math for you). Unless this system is able to judge the wind for you, includes a rangefinder, and is calculated to the drop of your platform, it won't help much with long range situations.

Now, for short range, high accuracy, timed shot situations (LE snipers, for example, where the goal is not range, but avoiding collaterals) this would be useful.

Most SWAT I know are far too prideful of their marksmanship to use such a tool, and the tool is really just replacing training more than improving it.

Now, for hunting, there is a market for such a tool. You average hunter is not that good of a shot (due to health, shakey tree stands, practice, or the consumption of adult beverages). If Uncle Mike can cue in on the deer a 6-pack into hunting so that he cannot miss (and has to look twice to make sure the three deer he sees are really just one, and that one is wearing blaze orange), then accidents will be avoided. The most common hunting accident, after all, is a poorly aimed gut shot that kills the deer 2-3 days and half a county away.

Saying that makes it less sporting in a world with doe urine, tree stands, didgital camo, baiting stations, dog hunting, and rifle optics is meaningless. Most hunting turned into Bambi Assissination long ago - and putting more meat in the freezer, rather than rotting under a bush after a great deal of suffering is sportingly merciful in my mind.

now imagine when they combine this with that steerable-bullet concept. mark and tag multiple enemies, and fire a burst with each bullet flying towards a seperate target. Iron man's suit isn't too far away now.

so if the rifle was swinging side to side as the shooter was aiming and when the shot was fired wouldn't the inertia of the rifle barrel keep it moving so when the bullet left the barrel the barrel would have already moved off the target and so the resulting hit would be off the original target