Military Guns and Ammunition
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This is intended for people interested in the subject of military guns and their ammunition, with emphasis on automatic weapons.
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Hybrid Red Dot / Thermal optics by Thales and Meprolight Small Arms <20mm
From: gatnerd
3/11/21
poliorcetes said:we'll have to wait until IVAS either develops or crash.
Program is currently 'paused;'
From: poliorcetes
3/11/21
There are more information about last developments. It seems to be delayed and I do want to believe that they are reactioning to an excess of optimism in their deadlines.
From: roguetechie
3/11/21
From what I understand, it's on a very short pause but likely still on track. They're working on light filtering and some other things.
What we really need is for big consumer players to push the display and power consumption technologies forward.
But augmented reality has been one of those things that's just about here for a long time yet never seems to make it across the line.
It'll get there though, just not as fast as any of us want it to.
From: xmszeon
3/11/21
LOL, such smart optic has already been adopted by PLA on its QBU-10 sniper rifle since almost 10 years ago.
From: Gr1ff1th
3/11/21
Are you the real @Xmszeon, if so I love your animations
- Edited 03 November 2021 23:39 by Gr1ff1th
From: gatnerd
4/11/21
xmszeon said:LOL, such smart optic has already been adopted by PLA on its QBU-10 sniper rifle since almost 10 years ago
Could you expand on which capabilities the QBU-10 optic has? A quick googling turns up multiple versions of the smart optic, and the english translation in the description is pretty meh.
Theres this optic shown with charismatic sniper:
And then this optic shown by this more cranky character:
From: xmszeon
4/11/21
Yeah, I'm that random guy.
"Could you expand on which capabilities the QBU-10 optic has" Sorry I can't talk about that cuz I don't wanna get into trouble, but I can tell you the dynamic targeting reticle was a bit hard to use in the field. For example, the reticle is always jumping around as in TrackingPoint‘s vids. And we'll know how TrackingPoint solved this problem, they chose EM trigger controlled by computer.
From: gatnerd
4/11/21
xmszeon said:Yeah, I'm that random guy
Welcome to the forum! And thank you so much for making those animations. They have been tremendously helpful in our discussions in the NGSW thread, and numerous other websites discussing NGSW have relied on your animations.
You're an extremely talented animator / patent interpreter. On of your more recent ones, showing how the CT ammo expands to form the gas seal, was especially helpful for us understanding how these things work.