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Cue military applications, where snipers can now kill you in the safety of your own home with a wall piercing bullet and a scope with a wifi based image overlay
by Tharkun 8y ago
Cue military applications, where snipers can now kill you in the safety of your own home with a wall piercing bullet and a scope with a wifi based image overlay.
- chopin 8y agoIt's still difficult to identify persons with this technology. So, only valuable if you don't care about collateral damage.
- lostlogin 8y agoThat’s placing a lot of faith in the “we don’t do body counts” crowd. I don’t believe it’s been earned.
- jobigoud 8y agoIt might work in a hostage situation where they detect many people crouched / staying still, and one individual pacing around.
- jacobush 8y agoIt will work even better in "silence dissident" situation. Collateral damage is just a bonus, you want other people to fear being associated with your target.
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- madengr 8y agoThere is no such thing as wall piercing bullets.
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoAnd a few years later the FBI will be using the tech to shoot people's wives after tricking them into violating some technicality of firearms law (just one example of abuse, plenty of others exist). Then a decade or two later every patrol car will have the tech. Trickle down effect is very real for law enforcement.
- geggam 8y agoThermal scope on a 50 BMG does this already.
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoIf you know what you want to kill is inside you can just point an AT4 at the building and press the bang switch. I guess .50bmg is a lot cheaper to use at scale though.
- wang_li 8y agoWhere do you live that walls are transparent to infrared radiation?
- gavinmckenzie 8y agoIt feels very close to the weapon in the Schwarzenegger film Eraser.