Sunday, August 23, 2009

Sniper Detectors Arrive

Vehicle-mounted Acoustic Sniper Detection System. Photo Gizmag.

From Strategy Page:

The U.S. Army has just ordered another 1,095 Boomerang Sniper Detection Systems, and 2,195 vehicle installation kits. Boomerang has been in wide use for the last three years. After over a decade of intense effort, sniper detectors are still a work in progress.

The acoustic sniper detectors have had the most success, and several thousand of them have been shipped to Iraq and Afghanistan. Sniper detection systems basically provide directional information about where the snipers are. Several generations of these systems have showed up over the last five years

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My Comment: This was all science fiction 10 years ago. Tomorrow .... anything is possible .... even better sniper detectors.

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