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Post by encore50a on Mar 18, 2015 8:19:11 GMT -5
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Post by rambler on Mar 18, 2015 8:36:27 GMT -5
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Post by jims on Mar 18, 2015 11:30:59 GMT -5
Interesting
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Post by Jon on Mar 18, 2015 11:45:44 GMT -5
Very interesting will have to keep watching. Still very new.
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Post by kash913 on Mar 18, 2015 19:35:07 GMT -5
It would be real sweet if track the bullet 200-300 yard be great to get real world B.C
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Post by lwh723 on Apr 9, 2015 23:29:39 GMT -5
I've gotten several e-mails from long range hunting pumping them pretty hard. I e-mailed lab radar trying to get a demo unit, but I never have any luck with that (long list of rejection letters) as they told me to get in line with everyone else. They said they've had issues with sabot shotgun slug reading consistently, but for sabotless guys that's a non-issue. If they work as well as they say, I'll definitely own one eventually, but I'm going to wait for others to go first!
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Post by 7mmfreak on Apr 10, 2015 2:22:55 GMT -5
The technology is there, it's just a matter of how good that unit is. I have shot similar systems during validation testing that worked extremely well and even gave distance and direction back to my position. These were larger and much more expensive units designed as countermeasures but worked off the same technology.
I will own one at some point, I'm sure.
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Post by rossman40 on Apr 11, 2015 23:32:40 GMT -5
Sooner or later, with the upgrades in electronics and phased array antennas, it was bound to happen. I guess you can thank the DoD, the use of radar chronographs on artillery and naval guns has become pretty popular. In the old days each artillery battery would have a radar unit to measure muzzle velocity error or difference of each gun time-to-time to get a correction factor for the gun tubes wear. I remember the older units being a large square screen about 16"X16", now the newer units are easily half that size. Instead of one unit to occasionally test the 6-8 tubes/guns of the battery each gun will have it's own unit. Where this really becomes important is in a rapid fire situation. The MK 45 naval gun can shoot 20 rounds per minute while the rate of fire of the artillery guns is a bit lower, A good crew can whip out 8 rounds in a minute. As the gun tube heats up the MV will change so the computer sees the change and changes the gun data (think of it as POA) so the POI remains the same. You may think this doesn't apply to rifle shooting but I know of guys that shoot Camp Perry that will actually adjust their powder charge in the string of 10 rounds to compensate for the barrel warming up (they weigh their powder out to .01 grain). Camp Perry is right on the lake and the wind is notorious, so they will shoot their spotters and then watch the range flags and when the wind looks the same as when they shot their spotters, they will shoot their 10rd string for record as fast as possible before the wind changes. The newest version of the M109, the M109A6 with the chrono circled,  The M777,  The German PzK 2000,  The Navy's new MK 45 Mod 4 5" gun,  Older radar units for ballistic testing of firearms looked like a can with a floodlight bulb in it, a lot like the radar units the cops now use. They were good for a .22 cal bullet out to about 15yds and a 9mm about twice the range. |
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