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awesome looking system…
Which is all well and good until you get to the exact range where the POI is so low that the aimed center mass shot misses your body armor and hits you square in the dick. Then who is laughing?
What I got from the video:
This thing works with no batteries as a regular 1-8x scope - so you always have a sight system. A clear screen is built into it that displays a ton of data. The individual war fighter chooses what to display, or nothing at all. Different reticle overlays are available as for example CQB. Rangefinder, elevation angle and compass are built in and with WiFi this is transmitted, not only to the rest of the squad but possibly to aircraft as well.
All sighting systems, Reticle, laser, IR laser, etc. are co-sighted with a single adjustment. All are computed for distance and angle.
Built in trajectory solver displays shot impact. And it goes on an on....
It might even make short range forward air controllers superfluous transmitting azimuth along with IR lasers lines as in "X marks the spot" sort of thing.
It works with all current and future squad weapons, including all machine guns. This and there is a lot they are keeping under wraps....
This thing works with no batteries as a regular 1-8x scope - so you always have a sight system. A clear screen is built into it that displays a ton of data. The individual war fighter chooses what to display, or nothing at all. Different reticle overlays are available as for example CQB. Rangefinder, elevation angle and compass are built in and with WiFi this is transmitted, not only to the rest of the squad but possibly to aircraft as well.
All sighting systems, Reticle, laser, IR laser, etc. are co-sighted with a single adjustment. All are computed for distance and angle.
Built in trajectory solver displays shot impact. And it goes on an on....
It might even make short range forward air controllers superfluous transmitting azimuth along with IR lasers lines as in "X marks the spot" sort of thing.
It works with all current and future squad weapons, including all machine guns. This and there is a lot they are keeping under wraps....
Impressive.
Glad to see Vortex get this one and bring so much to the USA
A lot of info is here - https://www.snipershide.com/shooting/threads/vortex-squad-optic-contract.7106144/
A lot of info is here - https://www.snipershide.com/shooting/threads/vortex-squad-optic-contract.7106144/
Y'all do understand the limitations of transmission vs. power usage, right ?
Unless this thing is plugged into a decent sized power pack it won't reach much more than 150-200 foot....less if encrypted (and it had better be).
No way it can transmit to a plane unless some external transceiver is involved.
2 x CR123 batteries can only do so much.
I'd say our ANGLICO Marines have job security for now.
Unless this thing is plugged into a decent sized power pack it won't reach much more than 150-200 foot....less if encrypted (and it had better be).
No way it can transmit to a plane unless some external transceiver is involved.
2 x CR123 batteries can only do so much.
I'd say our ANGLICO Marines have job security for now.
Just read your post. It doesn't work the way you think. From what you wrote it seems you're thinking of "typical" mom 'n pop wireless home networks. And that's not it. It's also not a "frequency".
First, the term Wi-Fi doesn't mean anything, It's not an acronym. It's just a short way to express a very long definition of a wireless internet protocol. IP for short.
Second, These days, the WHOLE USA battlespace is Wireless IP based. This battlespace model was pioneered quite a ways back (decades) for use by Special Operation Forces (SOF), way before the Bin Laden raid. In that one a large number of people were watching and listening to the show worldwide.
SOF combatants don't carry 40 pound radios, just pocket talkies. This is because transmit power is irrelevant. The important part is the transmit/receive power of the relay. In the SOF case, and now being expanded to all ground forces outside the wire, a loitering UAS used as an ISR platform providing IP communications and multiple other capabilities.
Very, very little power is needed in that model for ground forces. And the less power the better for preventing triangulation by the enemy. Line of sight, incredibly sensitive receivers and powerful transmitters make ISR platforms the backbone of our armed forces "internet".
All the scope needs to transmit is 3 small bits of information. The scope's GPS coordinates, the azimuth and range to target. That's it.
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When you state it like that, it makes me think the scope is a dummy and can only call polar missions. Why can’t it learn shift from a known point like the rest of us had to
