The Doomsday Gun
Source: United Kingdom UFO Network The Doomsday Gun - Laser-guided weapon finds its own
target
A GUN which picks out an enemy in pitch darkness and
kills him from more than half a mile away has been designed in
Britain.
Soldiers using it do not even have to shoot straight.
'Star Wars' technology allows a laser beam to steer 1,000 bullets a
minute to the target.
At the same time it can direct a grenade to punch a hole
through a building or an armoured vehicle, or burst in the air over
enemy troops.
'You can fire and forget, the gun does the rest,' said a
spokesman for British Aerospace, which has developed it at a cost of 5
million pounds with its subsidiary Heckler and Koch.
The gun, which will be in service with the U.S. Army and
Marine Corps by 2006, uses a built-in video camera to pick up
movement, indicating where the enemy is. Through his sights the
infantryman is offered three targets simultaneously and can select
one. The video tracker locks on to this target, then a computer
directs a laser beam to it.
When the soldier pulls the trigger, the computer decides
whether a powerful 20mm grenade is needed either to blow a hole
through obstacles between the infantryman and his target or whether
they can be skirted by an air-burst explosion.
If only a conventional automatic rifle function is
needed, the computer makes the gun fire 5.56mm shells.
It can also fire both modes at once in a devastating
burst of destruction.
by DAVID NORRIS
Industrial Correspondent