(12-28-2022, 04:57 PM)Ninurta Wrote: How odd. I was on the phone with Brotherman just last night, and this exact topic arose and I had never heard of it. Is that what they call a "synchronicity"?

Whenever new military tech like this comes up, I immediately set about figuring out how to defeat it, just in case I'm ever on the receiving end. I've got IR drones figured out, but this may take a bit longer...

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(12-28-2022, 10:43 PM)Ninurta Wrote: I would guess that they are keeping the particulars classified and close to the vest because there probably is a simple solution. If there weren't, and it was absolutely invincible, they'd likely be trumpeting that invulnerability far and wide. As it is, the secrecy surrounding it tells me that they are hiding a vulnerability that they don't want to get out.

Since it is a .50 cal/ 12.5 mm bullet, it would take a pretty stout barrier to stop it.

I think the speed of travel and whether it has guidance fins that pop out may be the key. At high travel speeds, fins take a relatively long time to react to direction changes, meaning that the flight characteristics may not admit of abrupt moves, and favor more gradual curves instead.

 If that's the case, knowing it's coming may allow one to duck behind a big rock or into a foxhole. The problem there is knowing it's coming - if you've ever been shot at, you'll know that generally, you hear the crack or buzz or whine of the bullet passing you before you hear the report of it being fired if it travels at more than 1100 feet per second, which most modern long arm ammo does. So usually the bullet is THERE before you know the shot's been fired.

The guidance system factors in, too - radio, optical (homing in on a laser painted on target) or something else? Radio and optical can be jammed to confuse the crap out of it.

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(12-28-2022, 11:56 PM)Bally002 Wrote: Hmm.  Your thoughts please on the possibility that a defence is built into a helmet such as a tone or alert that you've been targeted by such round or that fact it has been fired not unlike that of a pilots helmet or heads up display in the case of a cockpit.  A countermeasure may be a deflection or false target that detects targeting is initiated prior to or once the round is discharged - or - as you suggested using radio or optical to confuse an approaching round.

I am sure the manufacturers of this tech have also developed countermeasures.

Kind regards,

Bally