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It's a sweet rifle. That is, when judged against other rifles, it performs in unexpectedly pleasant and interesting ways. At roughly 1200fps, we're talking abou
by DanielBMarkham 12y ago
It's a sweet rifle. That is, when judged against other rifles, it performs in unexpectedly pleasant and interesting ways. At roughly 1200fps, we're talking about delivering a round that's flying for several seconds before it hits the target. It must be extremely impressive to watch tracers from this thing.
Having said that, yes, you are correct. Make it all remote; mount it on a drone. This thing is very close to being a particularly nasty piece of gear. Nasty in the sense that when we think of a "rifle", it's a guy with a small cannon and a long barrel pulling a trigger to attack something that he can easily see (and can see him). It's not a semi-autonomous weapon system reaching out from places unknown controlled by a person or computer yet somewhere else.
- hga 12y agoEh? That's not even .45-70 ballistics, it would result in a trajectory more like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.45-70#mediaviewer/File:.45-70vs.308.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.45-70#mediaviewer/File:.45-70... And a much greater environmental effect on the bullet, probably precluding the accuracy promised. The 388TP is based on the .338 Lapua Magnum, I'd assume it's pushing 3,000 fps like the parent cartridge unless I hear otherwise. After spending some quality time with Google just now I couldn't find anything on the 338TP's velocity.