Linux Powered Rifle

[miclo18d]

Originally Posted by longrange1947

Yes, that is how one group of charlatans got theirs to work. They put out sensors down range and read the winds at 200 meter intervals. Take care with things that send out signals though, they are like tracers, you can read them both ways.

There needs to be a device that the spotter can use to read winds ACCURATELY at all ranges. This is critical at the longer ranges, 800 and beyond. I hate to place a bunch of stuff in the shooters scope as it can become a distraction while shooting, especially if the winds are varible and he is trying to make shifts to compensate. A spotter can watch the wind changes and have the sniper fire on a change he is holding. One device was set up in quarter moa increments and that sucker was a constant buzz of movement. Told them to use quarter mil shifts and the observer can interrupte from there. I know some want the shooter to do all the work, but that is not a good way of doing business when he has to settle down to make the shot. Again I know, there will be the "I can do it", great, but most cannot and we need to set up for the most.

My 2 cents

Okay my second "shot"

A ground based Doppler radar system/wind profiler/SODAR on each FOB/base/area that reads winds shoots the info to a sat transmitter and ground based sniper team has a device that picks up the feed they can put in their location, and the gun gives the direction of aim and the computer calculated windage using the downloaded real time wind velocities. For the sniper end it would be passive as they only receive the info from a SAT.

Sounds expensive no doubt. This system could also be transmitted to pilots for wx reports and field units for storms and such.

As far as in the scope objects. I was thinking that the spotter scope and sniper scope could be "coupled" where when the spotter or sniper see something they can mark it in their scope and the other can see it in theirs. Like an instant talk-on. You could mark reference points that would show up when they came in view and even mark other targets for follow-on shots. If its too cluttered in the scope have a kill switch that turns it all off for your shot.

Just laying out some thoughts. It got me thinking.