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- From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Laser gunsights (was: Info on CO2lasers wanted
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.001114.1112@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 08:11:14 GMT
- References: <1993Jan6.191934.1085@cmkrnl.com> <6899@tuegate.tue.nl> <1993Jan09.101114.7239@actcnews.res.utc.com>
- Organization: Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego, CA
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- In article <1993Jan09.101114.7239@actcnews.res.utc.com>,
- Bob.Clarke%bbs@actcnews.res.utc.com (Bob Clarke) writes:
- > In message <6899@tuegate.tue.nl> dated 8 Jan 93 12:44:28 GMT
- > wouter@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Wouter Slegers) writes:
- >
- >> jeh@cmkrnl.com wrote:
- >
- >> : I would also point out that the claim of "perfect targetting" for a laser
- >> : gunsight just isn't so -- elevation and windage still are factors --
- >
- >> Correct, but it does give some extra targetting info..
- >>
- >> : *seeing* the dot of light from a 2 mW laser at any reasonable distance, in
- >> : anything other than pitch blackness, is damned near impossible.
- >
- > True, but laser targeting systems do not use the naked human eye!!! Most
- > laser targeting system do not operate in the visible range, and are used
- > in conjunction with a remote viewing device such as night vision. The army
- > has a system were they bore sight a laser to a m16 rifle, the user is wearing
- > night vision goggles, the laser is only visible to people wearing goggles.
- > Where ever the dot lands is dead! It is good to about 50 yards, I think!
-
- (1) The subject under discussion was not a military laser targeting system. If
- you had bothered to read the entire thread, rather than thinking you could jump
- into the middle and explain everything to everyone, you would have seen that my
- comments were in response to an article which proposed strapping a 2 mW HeNe
- atop a rifle. No IR lasers, no beam modulators, and certainly no night vision
- goggles keyed to the beam modulator. (The latter two points, btw, are
- essential if the system is to work in anything other than total darkness.) In
- that context my objections are entirely justified.
-
- (2) I suggest you go back and reread those back issues of _Guns and Ammo_ or
- _Soldier of Fortune_ (reading obviously being the closest you've ever gotten to
- a military rifle). Nobody in their right minds, and not the military either,
- would bother with such a system if it was limited to a 50 yard range.
-
- P.S. - in the future, try reading _Defense Electronics_ instead. Or if that's
- too difficult (I realize, there's lots of fine print and comparatively few
- pictures), at least THINK a little about what you're writing. Christ, if my
- enemy is only 50 yards away, I don't need precision sighting -- I'll just empty
- a clip in his general direction.
-
- --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
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