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The shooter still needs to physically point the weapon and pull the trigger; it's not on any kind of tracking/stabilization platform that could make it independ
by jboggan 12y ago
The shooter still needs to physically point the weapon and pull the trigger; it's not on any kind of tracking/stabilization platform that could make it independent of a human being. It does however do a marvelous job of computing all of the ballistic factors on the fly and give you a corrected aiming point. It short circuits the years of training and intuition needed to make those calculations, but being able to align the rifle and squeeze the trigger precisely is still a required skillset.
- hga 12y ago"but being able to align the rifle, keep it steady!, and squeeze the trigger precisely is still a required skillset" And for this sort of precision a fairly difficult one to acquire. My personal example of the "do it 10,000 times" thing, about the number of rounds I fired in my high school rifle team and prior to that to get perhaps this good. Absent special talent, assume a few months full time with a "growing up shooting" foundation like myself. Without, I have no idea.
- lisper 12y ago> it's not on any kind of tracking/stabilization platform that could make it independent of a human being Maybe not out of the box, but mounting it on a motorized gimbal seems like an elementary exercise to me.
- Someone 12y agoFrom what I understand, the difference between this and "click your mouse on a video screen, and it will acquire the target and hit it" is for a considerable part psychological. You do the clicking through a gun scope, and the gun more or less expects you to not hold it stable, then fires itself at the moment that you accidentally point it the right way. That makes it feel more like you do the shooting than a video-game like experience, but from a technical point of view, the difference isn't that large.