.U.S. Army Tests Flying Robot Sniper
It could be the best Xbox 360 game ever, and a real kick in the ARSS.
The U.S. Army is testing the Autonomous Rotorcraft Sniper System (ARSS) — a remote-controlled unmanned Vigilante robot helicopter equipped with a high-velocity sniper rifle.
Its RND Edge semi-automatic gun is mounted on a self-stabilizing turret with built-in zoom camera, and fires 7 to 10 precisely aimed .338-caliber rounds per second.
Back on the ground, a human directs it using a modified Xbox 360 controller, which plugs into a laptop so that the operator can see what the drone sees.
"Having the ability to accurately engage single point man sized targets with an airborne UAV will give the ground based soldier the ability to have a high-point survivable sniper at their disposal when needed," stated the Army solicitation notice when the project was announced in 2005.
The Space Dynamics Laboratory at Utah State University developed the Precision Weapons Platform guided turret and rifle system.
FoxNews
Seems to me a Carrier would be the perfect platform for this weapon
posted by madtom at 10:15 PM
1 Comments:
I doubt these things will have anywhere near the range necessary to be carrier based. They don't row those things very close to hostile shores. Some of the fixed wing UAVs would be better for that purpose.
I couldn't find the article I read a couple of years ago (popular mech, I think) which described a planned platform for some of these robotic-unmanned systems. It was a carrier-submarine hybrid. I really think that surface ships are on the way out. Too easy to track from space, too big and slow of a target for current missile tech.
Post a Comment
<< Home