Re: [TML] Cool new Traveller tech in production Kurt Feltenberger 08 May 2014 18:55 UTC
On 5/8/2014 2:48 PM, Grimmund wrote: > Another cool toy for gunheads to drool over: > > http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/envg-iii-fws-i-point-and-shoot-night-vision-023935/ > > If I am reading this correctly, the weapon site has a wireless link to > the matched night vision goggles, allowing the operator to see the > site picture through the gogles without having to put their head > behind the weapon. > > That would be pretty cool. You can now fire around corners and over > walls without having to fire blind. > > Dan This will be nice to put money in people's pockets and push the tech forward, but I can't see wireless devices like this being viable on the battlefield...unless you're hunting Haji and even then he's becoming much more advanced. All you need is a good jammer to disrupt the signal and the device loses it's benefit. -- Kurt Feltenberger xxxxxx@thepaw.org/xxxxxx@yahoo.com “Before today, I was scared to live, after today, I'm scared I'm not living enough." - Me