Marineinfanteristen auf dem Weg in den Nahen Osten beim Einsatz von Gewehren mit intelligentem Zielfernrohr zur Drohnenabwehr gesehen

Anything but using the actual proven solution developed by Ukrainians. What an incompetent administration.

I read this title as “Marines on way to Middle Earth” and was very, VERY confused for a hot minute.

This solution requires you notice the drone and lock onto it.
If you do.. this solution is actually quite effective.

I would like the parents of any Marine service members to google and watch videos of what drones sound like before they kill your son or daughter. You will be surprised how hard it is to see/hear and thus locate the drone to lock onto.

This will not protect your children.

Wouldn’t a shotgun full of pellets be cheaper and more effective? 

Cyberpunk 2077 smart weapons being developed for the corpo wars? Wow.

I had something similar with my CROW2 system back in my day. Kinda neat and works as long as the target movement is simple 

They should invent that auto aim assist gun featured in alien: romulus

As a Marine vet, I bet these work like absolute dogshit.

How realistic is it in a real life situation with not perfect weather conditions and a drone flying in a zig zag pattern?

Afaik most drone strike victims have like 3 seconds to react before the drone hits them. It almost feels like its their to boost the soldiers confidence instead of realistically saving them.

I keep seeing people go „this is real life aim-bot!“

Incorrect! ☝️🤓

This would be closer to what known in video games (especially tactical shooters) as a „trigger bot“ hack. Whereas an aimbot takes direct control of the weapon in order to assure that it’s pointed at the target when the trigger is pulled, a trigger bot cheat either prevents the gun from firing until a hit is guaranteed, or automatically fires the gun once you yourself aim the gun in the correct position to guarantee a hit. In either case the wielder still has to be actively making efforts to aim at their target, rather than having the weapon be aimed FOR them while they only need to hold the trigger.

Aimbots aim while you shoot.
Triggerbots shoot while you aim.

I’m glad these exist.

Now the fucking Marines have aimbot…I know what demographic they’ll be recruiting next: „It’s exactly like what you’re already doing in video games, but this time, it’s real life.“

Interesting: “The SMASH 2000L is designed to track drones and other moving targets, and it also compensates for shooters’ movements, Thompson told Task & Purpose in July.

The fire control system performs the necessary ballistic calculations to hit a target, and it won’t allow the shooter to fire until the best moment to score a hit, Thompson said at the time. If needed, the system can be unlocked so that shooters can fire at will, he added.”

Honestly, no sarcasm, good luck to them.

Drone swarms loitering and hunting you is the new War Is Hell. Are shotguns going to be the new standard „rifle“ assigned to infantry?

Is like the computing gunsights used in WW2 aircrafts and warships, they relied on mechanical and analog computers to calculate firing solutions on the fly.

The gunner would track the target with the sight and input the distance, and the computer would factor in other variables like relative speed and wind, it would then calculate the firing solution and show the gunner where to aim, and in certain implementations the computer would aim the guns automatically.

Even by today’s standard those mechanical computers are still amazing, as they used gears and vacuum tubes instead of transistors for the calculation, incredibly complex yet very fast and accurate.