Re: [TML] Cool new Traveller tech in production Jeffrey Schwartz 08 May 2014 20:08 UTC
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Kurt Feltenberger <xxxxxx@thepaw.org> wrote: > 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. > Or, more fun, a _detector_ Hooked to an alarm, so you know they're coming. Or hooked to an IED, which would also have a distinctive alert sound effect.