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https://www.rt.com/usa/318606-laser-guided-missile-rifle/
>American military personnel can already shoot grenades out of a launcher which attaches to a rifle, but the stakes are being upped by Raytheon, which has developed a tiny laser-guided missile that can hit targets nearly 7,000 feet away.
>The new weapon, dubbed the Pike, is only 17 inches long and 1.5 inches wide. At 1.7 pounds, it weighs more than an average grenade, but manages to boast three times the power and is capable of taking out two people located behind a wall, according to Defense Tech.
>"Pike uses a digital, semi-active laser seeker to engage both fixed and slow-moving, mid-range targets," said J. R. Smith, Raytheon's Advanced Land Warfare Systems director, in a statement. "This new guided munition can provide the warfighter with precision, extended-range capability never before seen in a hand-held weapon on the battlefield."
>During two recent tests in Texas, the Pike munitions traveled more than 2,300 yards (2.1 km) and successfully landed in the target area, Raytheon announced Monday. As noted by the Washington Post, the average grenade travels some 150 yards (0.1 km). Additionally, the company said the Pike is “nearly smokeless” as it travels through the air, making it much more difficult for enemies to detect as it zooms towards them.
>One of the Pike’s key features is its semi-active laser seeker, which helps it find and stay on its course. According to Smith, the missile can detect laser heat off of its intended target, and the launcher does not even need to have his or her laser settled on a target before firing the weapon,
>“You don’t even have to start by lasing,” he told Military.com. “You can launch it, just as long as you get the laser on it before it hits its apogee and starts coming down. For a long shot like that, you could probably lase 15 seconds after launch.”
While you were busy wasting your time. I studied the blade.
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>mfw we invent LGM Rifle
>mfw even China can't stop us now
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>>70913283
China has never won an external conflict in it's entire history.
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very nice and all but you still can't beat gook rice farmers with it.
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>>70913319
Tibet
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>>70913387
The best weaponry in the world won't win you a war if you're undermined from within by treasonous leftists.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
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Oh fug we DOOM soon
https://youtu.be/7e1dPLPoxY8?t=10
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>2km
>Sea level horizon is at 40km
Worthless
If it was 5 or 10, it could see actual use.
Instead its a gimmick thing that will not be worth the effort over similar range weapons.
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>>70913672
AFAIK there's actually an exhibit in the War Museum in Hanoi thanking antiwar activists like Jane Fonda for their help.
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>>70913672
During our war with Indonesia we just send whiny leftists to Indonesia.
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>>70914521
Here they all went to college (because exempt from the draft) or fled to Canada. The draft in the Vietnam era bore heavily on the lower classes of society.
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