Thread: The M29
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Old 11-22-2003, 06:49 PM  
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Originally posted by crockett
it's not so little... it's major problem is it's weight it's around 100lbs far too heavy for the adverage troop to carry around. has some nice toys on it though... has a target locking system that will lock in on a target and once the ammo gets to that location it's explodes.. allowing the user to hit someone around a cornor or in a trench and so on... it allso has a camera and LCD which alllows the user to point the gun around a cornor and see what's there not exposing himself.
that technology has been in use since the early 90;s, but i believe the article i read had a scope with all that technology mounted on an m16 or like modelled rifle, and the feedback came back to a monitor like device inside the soldiers helmet. kind of like what pilots see.
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