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US Army pay toy design company to adopt tech to fire bullets :)

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  • #2
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    They watched the below film one too many times.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105629/


  • #3
    forbairt
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    made me think of the Lawgiver for some reason :D

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawgiver


  • #4
    Naos
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    Ha, very good forbairt!

    I think it's a good idea. The Leeds lad was correct when he said soldiers may up it to kill as they feel, but either way if they didn't have these variable bullets - they'd be using real bullets which would kill anyway.


  • #5
    kowloon
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    I wonder will the toy company decide on the styling too?

    http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20080117/ShootingKitty1_540x405.jpg


  • #6
    kaimera
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    kowloon wrote: »
    I wonder will the toy company decide on the styling too?

    http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20080117/ShootingKitty1_540x405.jpg
    bwahahaha...awesome.

    random e.thanks for that :D


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  • #7
    Adam
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    Naos wrote: »
    Ha, very good forbairt!

    I think it's a good idea. The Leeds lad was correct when he said soldiers may up it to kill as they feel, but either way if they didn't have these variable bullets - they'd be using real bullets which would kill anyway.
    The bullets aren't variable, the velocity is.

    This seems largely pointless to me. They say they will use different rounds for non-lethal and lethal scenarios, but they already do that. So it's not like they can decide to go in with "phasers set to stun" and then decide they want to do some killin, they've got rubber bullets in their guns...


  • #8
    The Don
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    If "terrorists" got their hands on these guns I wonder what setting they'd use?


  • #9
    Adam
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    The Don wrote: »
    If "terrorists" got their hands on these guns I wonder what setting they'd use?
    Tickle.


  • #10
    forbairt
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    The Don wrote: »
    If "terrorists" got their hands on these guns I wonder what setting they'd use?

    The gun will be set to explode if a non judge fires the gun of course :)

    (way too much time spent reading judge dread in my youth)


  • #11
    BaconZombie
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    But I think this maybe worse:

    http://www.embryodesign.com/england/images/35.jpg
    kowloon wrote: »
    I wonder will the toy company decide on the styling too?

    http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20080117/ShootingKitty1_540x405.jpg


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  • #12
    The Don
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    forbairt wrote: »
    The gun will be set to explode if a non judge fires the gun of course :)

    (way too much time spent reading judge dread in my youth)

    Nice feature. They think of everything these days.


  • #13
    Mitch Connor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,838 ✭✭✭✭Mitch Connor


    The Don wrote: »
    If "terrorists" got their hands on these guns I wonder what setting they'd use?

    the same setting that is available on all the guns they use right now.

    My issue would be someone forgetting to switch the velocity or setting the wrong velocity in a crowd control scenario; and we'd end up with something similar to what happened in France a few weeks back.


  • #14
    Adam
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    Tauren wrote: »
    the same setting that is available on all the guns they use right now.

    My issue would be someone forgetting to switch the velocity or setting the wrong velocity in a crowd control scenario; and we'd end up with something similar to what happened in France a few weeks back.
    But how?? They said they would still be using rubber rounds for crowd control etc., so presumably regular bullets for lethal operations. So Im' going to assume, lower velocity or not, that regular bullets will still penetrate the human body. Ergo, what's the point?


  • #15
    Mitch Connor
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    Well, I would assume you are assuming incorrectly, or indeed there would be no point.


  • #16
    Adam
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    Tauren wrote: »
    Well, I would assume you are assuming incorrectly, or indeed there would be no point.
    From the link wrote:
    Lund says that the new weapon system will use different types of bullet for lethal and non-lethal use.

    Knew I wasn't going crazy...


  • #17
    Run_to_da_hills
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    This was already developed by the Topper Corporation in a very effective toy gun back in the 1960ies called the "Johnny 7 Gun" It could shoot seven different arniments including grenades, rockets and conventional bullets. I had two of them :)


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Seven_OMA


  • #18
    Adam
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    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    This was already developed by the Topper Corporation in a very effective toy gun back in the 1960ies called the "Johnny 7 Gun" It could shoot seven different arniments including grenades, rockets and conventional bullets. I had two of them :)


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Seven_OMA
    That sounds freaking awesome!


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