Sniping Could Be the Next Killer iPod App

[Valiss]

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2...-sniper-rifle/

Knights Armament Corp. who supply sniper rifles to the US military have developed a iPod Touch mounting system and software for the US Army M110 sniper rifle system. The use of off the shelf hardware no doubt cut costs and allowed rapid development of this system.

[Dog Soldier]

Why?

[DevilEyes]

Why what?

[redwallet]

Originally Posted by Dog Soldier

Why?

Some easy listening calms the nerves, leading to better accuracy, why else?

[stewy37]

Originally Posted by Dog Soldier

Why?

From the article:
"KAC contracted Runaway technologies to build an external ballistics calculator for the iPod Touch / iPhone named Bullet Flight. It is your standard ballistics application. You can set firearm / ammunition profiles, then call up the saved profile and enter your environment information, for example, distance, wind direction, elevation and temperature."

[Dog Soldier]

I had an iPhone. Poor battery life, fragile and flaky. Furthermore the user can't replace the batteries. The location interferes with proper marksmanship as well

I think that thing is a hoax

[Valiss]

Originally Posted by Dog Soldier

I had an iPhone. Poor battery life, fragile and flaky. Furthermore the user can't replace the batteries. The location interferes with proper marksmanship as well

I think that thing is a hoax

I dont think it is a hoax. There are a lot of sites covering this story:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...od&btnG=Search

[Lord of Lies]

It's not a hoax, I have a friend who bought it to try it out.

[Valiss]

Originally Posted by Lord of Lies

It's not a hoax, I have a friend who bought it to try it out.

Any good?

[DizBukHaPeter]

It's not a hoax, it's on Knights Armament's website. Knights makes the ballistic software to couple with their semi-auto sniper system for the army, the m110.
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