AtMilipol , I was walking around FN Herstal ’s kiosk , playing with futuristic - lookingP90s , Five - SevensandF2000swhen I noticed a camera - toting tourist pretend - blasting with something very very cool : The Armatronics “ Black Box ” suite with displace Red Dot Fire Control .
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They ’d take aSCAR assault rifle , and put a “ black box ” inside the handgrip , connection it with the soldier ( “ with a kind of Bluetooth ” according to the Porto Rico bozo ) , and also to home plate base . The grip is a sealed , 10 - yr unit that logs the routine of fastball fired and stay on ammo a la Aliens . They ’re also mould on pairing to specific soldier , perhaps using biometrics . Deactivating it if the Taliban get it , for instance ? “ In the near hereafter , ” enjoin PR man mysteriously .
The 2nd part of the rooms is the Moving Red Dot Fire Control Unit , which is a networked firing solution computer for the grenade catapult . You press a clit next to the trigger to trigger off the laser range finder , then the computer calculates the root , shows it to you in the LED showing , then moves the red battery-acid to aim it . That ’s right — laser - manoeuvre grenades . You are your own atmosphere reenforcement . [ FN Herstal ]
Apoorva Prasadis a freelance author and photographer base in Paris , France , who covered theMilipol 2009 military - law expofor us . He has a thing for holo - scoped assault rifle , and sounds disappointed when admitting he ’s never been Tased .
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