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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
Sound based. It would triangulate on the initial bang. It also traced out the flight path of the bullet in flight, real-time. Don't ask me how it was able to do that! Snipers, assassins, etc., are going to have much shorter combat life expectancies in the future, that's for sure.
8 posted on 07/20/2002 4:30:51 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
So what if it is a silenced sniper rifle?
14 posted on 07/20/2002 5:04:18 PM PDT by Aaron_A
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I wonder what the range on something like this would be and how other airborne objects (rain, bugs.. whatever) would affect it.
18 posted on 07/20/2002 5:28:49 PM PDT by Jhoffa_
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To: LibWhacker
Sound based. It would triangulate on the initial bang. It also traced out the flight path of the bullet in flight, real-time.
Rifle bullets are supersonic, and consequently give off a small sonic boom. Audible, so my long-ago military training class instructor noted, as a snap as it passes by. It follows that data from a sufficent microphone array beside/behind (and, obviously, preferably also in front of) the target could be compared to infer the track of the bullet. The further apart the microphones roughly along the bullet's path, the greater the potential resolution capability--but you would need to know the geometry of the microphone array, if it wasn't a constant. So you could deploy microphones by mortar shell if you needed them widely spaced, but that would leave you with operational problems figuring out where the mikes actually fell. That might be solvable by deliberately firing a known shot or two over the array, perhaps . . . but if you had a squad of troops and each one had a mike with some kind of position measurement transponder . . . After that, it would be a matter of operating a Kalman filter, perhaps, to infer the flight paths of incoming rifle shots. Computer processing power would be, at this late date, the least of the problems, given that GPS boxes are under $1000 and we're talking about somewhat similar analysis.

20 posted on 07/20/2002 5:42:14 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion
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To: LibWhacker
"Sound based. It would triangulate on the initial bang. "

It seems like it would be easy to fool the system with decoy gunshots.

21 posted on 07/20/2002 5:44:51 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: LibWhacker
The U.S. system uses radar.
82 posted on 07/23/2002 11:02:11 AM PDT by Shooter 2.5
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