Posted: 1/22/2005 6:08:57 PM EDT
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I, for one, welcome our robot overlords! |
A couple officers got bored in the staff meeting and starting discussing what sort of shit they could pull out of storage and drop in Iraq to see what would happen. Some butter bar suggested they send robots, and after a few drinks it was decided that this was a good idea. Thus, SWORDS have entered Iraq. |
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I can't believe it took 5 years to adapt those EOD robots to combat. Seems obvious. I wonder how the operator's vision of the battlefield provides him with information for compensation for bullet drop. The articles claims you could hit a nickle with the robot shooting (with a generic light machinegun?) anyway even with a stabilized platform the shooter would still have to estimate distance (though a laser on the robot could do that) and compensate for bullet drop (and wind) I wonder if the sighting mechanism does that (an overlay like a sherperd scope would work in a simple manner even) or if the robot operator is stuck with kentucky windage and/or walking the machinegun rounds in? |
I imagine they use a rangefinder to adjust where the gun is aimed. A similar system is used on the grenade machine gun, you put the dot on the target and it lasers it and adjusts the angle of the shot. |