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In article <1993Jan09.101114.7239@actcnews.res.utc.com>, 
Bob.Clarke%bbs@actcnews.res.utc.com (Bob Clarke) writes:
> In message <6899@tuegate.tue.nl> dated 8 Jan 93 12:44:28 GMT
> wouter@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Wouter Slegers) writes:
> 
>> jeh@cmkrnl.com wrote:
> 
>> : I would also point out that the claim of "perfect targetting" for a laser 
>> : gunsight just isn't so -- elevation and windage still are factors -- 
>
>> Correct, but it does give some extra targetting info..
>> 
>> : *seeing* the dot of light from a 2 mW laser at any reasonable distance, in 
>> : anything other than pitch blackness, is damned near impossible.  
> 
> True, but laser targeting systems do not use the naked human eye!!!  Most
> laser targeting system do not operate in the visible range, and are used 
> in conjunction with a remote viewing device such as night vision.  The army 
> has a system were they bore sight a laser to a m16 rifle, the user is wearing
> night vision goggles, the laser is only visible to people wearing goggles. 
> Where ever the dot lands is dead!  It is good to about 50 yards, I think!

(1) The subject under discussion was not a military laser targeting system.  If
you had bothered to read the entire thread, rather than thinking you could jump
into the middle and explain everything to everyone, you would have seen that my
comments were in response to an article which proposed strapping a 2 mW HeNe
atop a rifle.  No IR lasers, no beam modulators, and certainly no night vision
goggles keyed to the beam modulator.  (The latter two points, btw, are
essential if the system is to work in anything other than total darkness.)  In
that context my objections are entirely justified. 

(2)  I suggest you go back and reread those back issues of _Guns and Ammo_ or
_Soldier of Fortune_ (reading obviously being the closest you've ever gotten to
a military rifle).  Nobody in their right minds, and not the military either,
would bother with such a system if it was limited to a 50 yard range.  

P.S. - in the future, try reading _Defense Electronics_ instead.  Or if that's
too difficult (I realize, there's lots of fine print and comparatively few
pictures), at least THINK a little about what you're writing.  Christ, if my
enemy is only 50 yards away, I don't need precision sighting -- I'll just empty
a clip in his general direction.  

	--- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
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