I'd bet the ole vintage quad could still do the job if called on.
Posted on 01/09/2019 11:41:56 AM PST by Carriage Hill
The Army is revving up development and delivery of advanced targeting technology for its .50-cal machine gun to increase precision, widen the mission envelope and destroy challenging targets such as enemy drones, low-flying aircraft, light-skinned armored vehicles and troop concentrations.
Senior Army officials say the service’s Rapid Equipping Force has been fast-tracking improved "slue-to-cue" technology, new sensors and emerging radar-based targeting technology to give the .50-Cal more precision accuracy.
In service for decades, the .50-Cal has naturally been thought of as largely an area weapon able to lay down suppressive fire, enabling troops to maneuver by blanketing enemy targets with rounds. The weapon of course still has this function, yet technical efforts are underway to make .50-Cal targeting more precise, such that it could shoot down swarms of quadcopters or other commercially avail mini-drones configured for attack.
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“Slew To Cue (Radar PTZ Auto Tracking) “Slew to Cue” is a term that is used to describe the integration of a radar or other target detection device that tells an EO/IR surveillance PTZ camera where to point, hence slew to cue.”
Right there on Google; he should have checked it.
Another BS Myth bites it.
Something just made me remember. The .50 cal. machine gun is 100 years old. I have a photo I got off the internet showing John Browning firing his .50 caliber in Colt’s Pasture, Hartford Connecticut. It is dated November 1918.
Because WWI ended that same month, the Army didn’t adopt it until several years later.
John Moses Browning (1855-1926), still a genius, still making America's enemies 'duck for cover'! Thank you sir! A short list of his most successful; the M1911 pistol, the Browning Hi Power pistol, the water-cooled M1917, the air-cooled M1919, and heavy M2 machine guns, the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR), and the Browning Auto-5 – the first semi-automatic shotgun.
Don’t forget all those Winchester lever actions.
The 1886, 1892, 1894 and 1895. All of them still being made by various makers. Not sure if the model 95 is current but made recently. Too many more other guns to list.
According to the Book, John Browning, American Gunmaker, his favorite was the little .32 auto first made by FN and Colt.
The Colt Woodsman .22 is a jewel.
Rat Patrol on steroids!
Bow down, bend a knee, whatever works for you, to Saint John Moses Browning. The patron saint of firepower.
I'd bet the ole vintage quad could still do the job if called on.
They brought down uncounted numbers of Nazi & Nip planes, in their day.
Had one of those bad boys open up close by me kinda
unexpected like once.Whoa.Not long after that I learned
to get as far as possible from a tank.Buggers draw fire.
Then a coupla Phantoms saved our bacon.
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Sgt. Hathcock, USMC, hit a man riding a bicycle with an M2 that he’d welded a scope mount onto at nearly a mile away.
Clumsy sentence, maybe, but it made my point.
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A lot of calculations must be computed. Many, many variables.
Not true at all.
Guy on youtube shot bullets through a house of cards and it didn’t even knock them over.
Extremely short wave radar to track the target, A computer to take in all the variables and several servos to aim.
Targets too small.
I just watched that video.The .50cal myth was just BS.
That setup would be perfect for mounting on the southern border wall.
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