Marines on way to Middle East seen using rifles with anti-drone smart scope

It really is aim assist. > 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.

I truly want to see a live no scope 360 happening though.

Fwiw the aim bot has been a thing for about as long as aim bots have been a thing. I can remember seeing early versions of this being displayed in the 2000s they were exorbitantly expensive and heavy and that was already multiple generations in 

The counter to this will be drones that automatically make a minor adjustment to their trajectory every second or two.

You kids and your aimbots, here I was thinking “Oh James Cameron’s smart gun technology from Aliens is becoming real.” 😜

More like Cyberpunk 2020 smart weapons. Which is appropriate. Johnny Siverhand's arm had a smart link connected to the Malorian. The 2077 versions are homing bullets which also exist but aren't what the article is talking about.

those SmartLink implants are preem but cost a lot of eddies

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Gaza. It's an Israeli system

>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. I think you just hold the trigger and it shoots automatically when bullet would hit the target

I have trained with this system. Do you want a gun nerd explanation or a Like I am 5? Like you are 5: It makes it like a cheat on a first person shooter, you select a target with your left thumb and a square forms over it. You pull the trigger, but it does not fire. Then you move the gun until your circle is on the square and the trigger engages. 9/10 times you can hit a moving quad copter type drone. Gun Nerd: There a component changed in the trigger group that controls loosing the trigger. The scope is a computer that detects targets (humans and drones), then calculates distance trajectory etc. You can select a target using your left thumb on the barrel, there is a little pressure switch. The computer then moves a square through potential targets. Once selected gently pull the trigger, however the trigger will hold until you move your rifle until your "circle" covers the target "square". 90% PK. It works for more than just drones, humans and moving vehicles also. At the time I trained it was about $3,500 a unit. The ones in the picture look a lot smaller than the ones I trained on. Let me say it again for shooters, it calculates trajectory for moving targets, in three dimensions. It is like using a game cheat. No way I could hit a moving drone with a rifle without something like this, unless I was spraying ammo like crazy.

If you've ever played a mobile FPS shooter where you shoot automatically when you get your cross hair over an enemy - sort of that. Or like an aim hack in CSGO. How they don't have these mounted to articulated robotic arms is beyond me - trillion bucks and no fore thought on how to apply it.

They convince men to go to the meat grinder.

Hmmm, I dunno man, maybe I could find out if I read the article

Thats a solid opinion, now get back in your cardboard box

If that’s the case. Welcome aboard the wild ride of mil-tech drone and robot tech has just begun. Next several decades of development is going to radically change conventional warfare. Not like prototypes but actual in the field deployed equipment.

I subscribe to this school as well. War bad, but also war sick as f*** and cool....you know?

Metal Gear????????!!!!!!!!!

Wars drive innovation

There was a Judge Dredd comic in the early eighties that had that! From a long distant memory: Societies that wanted to fight went to the planet and drew random military outfits from over the years. These two societies turned up and one got the Picts and the other some future raygun equipment. Then Judge Dredd ended up there for some reason and joined in on the Picts side (for totalitarian reasons which anyone that has read the comic will understand but people that have seen either movie might find hard to grok immediately). It was a good episode from memory. Not as good as the dinosaur races with the accountant. Man I wish I hadn't given my collection of comics away. It was almost complete through to the mid 90's in all the formats. Probably worth like 3 or 400 bucks now.

That’s after cuba

Oh shit, did they find oil under the Shire?

We CANNOT allow Elves to have Rings of Power! Praise be to Eru! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER!

Suddenly palantir is making more sense.

stop giving them ideas

"They're taking the Marines to Isengard!"

Let's hope those beacons are not lit

Hey, anyone else remember that Marines recruitment commercial from the 90s where a Marine in dress blues had to fight a Balrog? It all makes sense now. \*The commercial, for those unaware. Oh, I guess he didn't fight in dress blues. The dress blues came on after the Balrog was defeated. Whatever. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62tnJtLBQzQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62tnJtLBQzQ) Read the comments. The comments are gold.

It’s not a war unless it’s from the war region of the US, otherwise it’s just sparkling military aggression.

I think you misunderstood. He meant, "No, new wars!"

It's just a special military operation

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4ToouvKF4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4ToouvKF4) A video of an Irish journalist in Kherson. Attached to anti drone squad traveling through the perimeter. Great video overall, see the people still there and the ones lost.

I’ve watched a number of combat videos of drone war warfare from the Ukraine-Russian war and it is disturbing as hell. From the POV of a drone flying low across the ground towards a lonely Russian soldier, downtrodden and exhausted as he stumbles across the blasted landscape, suddenly turning their broken and empty eyes as they hear the drone approach. Then the feed dies and it switches to another view of the guys body blasted apart and the remains burning. Pure f****** nightmare fuel.

There are plenty of videos of people in Russia/Ukraine being killed by drones they have seen and are trying to kill or run from.

Also, don’t modern attack drones move at like 150mph?

I believe there are headphones in use, or currently in development, specifically programmed to enhance the drone sound to more effectively hear these things. Crazy technology war incoming lol.

Well they have a bunch of others gadgets and support for detection assuming the drones weren’t detected by the larger area network defense systems. Then there are the smaller portable counter UAS radars that will be brought in with marine Infantry units. Additionally, on the individual marine they likely carrying things such as radio frequency detectors. People need to be careful comparing Russian experiences to U.S. I was in the U.S. Navy and I watch these sea drone video footage approaching Russian warships and i feel disgust at the lack of discipline of Russian navy. Half the time it looks like nobody is on watch. What is the whole ship sleeping? In a war zone? Even when they are making a half ass attempt to defend there’s a whole bunch of the weapon systems that seemed inactive. Are they broken? Did they forget how to use them? All of these drone attacks i have seen wouldn’t likely get through US naval defenses.

even with this system i wouldnt be surprised if a half decent fpv pilot could make some erratic moves and defeat it. but its better than nothing

And you still have to center a flying drone within the scope I wouldn’t bet my life on this scope at all

You must be a real old vet. The stereotype is dead, Marines have been getting absolutely kitted out over the past 10 years. New rifles, suppressors, scopes, NODs, armor, helmets, drones, counter drone equipment, etc etc.

This is a "better than nothing" option Like a handgun is gonna eat shit against a rifle but I'll take the handgun over nothing every time

I’m sorry, did you think that teenage males weren’t already the demographic they recruited?