Headline Of The Day.

[theweaselking]

Governor of Texas goes jogging, saves puppy from coyote using laser-guided pistol.

I don't know why this is NEWS (oh, wait, Huffington Post: nothing but wall to wall crazy people. ANYTHING might be "news", there) but damn if it's not a hilarious image.

Comments

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

You use a laser pointer to guide your shots. And my way is much funnier.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

You aim your shots. You don't "guide" shit once it's out of the barrel. "Guided" has a specific meaning in ballistics, and until they start packing active control systems on bullets, pistol rounds don't come close to meeting it.

[skiriki.livejournal.com]

I think they had just made development on that front, making guided gun ammo reality... Of course, it was for a 50mm at this point, but...

Buggered if I can recall where I read that thing, though.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Guidance, or stabilization? I know they put fins on anti-tank rounds.

The cost would have to come down a lot to make it feasible for small arms. Putting a lot of money into something that blows up/fragments/is otherwise single-use only makes sense if it can take out something of the enemy's that's worth as much or more. Guided .50-cal rounds for snipers? I can see that. Guided...whatever an M-16 takes? (One of the NATO calibers; I don't remember.) Much less likely.

[skiriki.livejournal.com]

Guidance. Hey, I found the link again! Joy!

Scary shit people come up with to kill others more efficiently.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha DARPA. That's shorthand for "it'll never happen."

I'm not trying to be dismissive of you, personally, but DARPA RFPs almost never amount to anything.

[skiriki.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm taking it with a grain of salt big enough to sate a hundred rabid moose in throes of salt-ecstasy. But, I'll just wait and see if they or someone else comes up with a working design. Really, people put time and effort into making other people dead the easiest possible way.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

The question becomes whether it's just cheaper to send a few soldiers in to die. Plenty more where those came from!

Man, I'd love to just make a living on dumbass DARPA Phase 1 & 2 projects, but they stop awarding them if you consistently only do the early phases and never bid on the later, sure-to-fail phases.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

I don't know if even DARPA were fool enough to throw money at it, but I wonder whatever happened to the DREAD (http://www.defensereview.com/world-exclusive-video-dread-weapon-system-devastating-jam-proof-and-silent/). I was surprised at how many people got suckered in by the arguments about how a recoilless gun doesn't break the laws of conservation of momentum :-(

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I could edit it so the headline just says "using LASERS".