I’d hate to shoot large rifle calibers out of there. I bet now they could make such an awesome flying platform, seeing as computer control could easily stabilize it. Talk about exposing yourself to incoming fire though haha. Basically it would be an awesome toy.
Thoughts?
Hat tip: Arthur
Now this is a Desert Eagle I would buy… if for nothing else, the sheer insanity of it.
I’d also have to get several novelty “Man Cards” made up to give to those who would attempt to shoot in one handed.
According to the Journal Pediatrics, children in the most rural areas of the United States are as likely to die by gunfire as those in the biggest cities, a new analysis of nearly 24,000 deaths finds.
The researchers analyzed data on nearly 24,000 gun-related deaths among those 19 and younger from 1999 through 2006. That included about 15,000 homicides, about 7,000 suicides and about 1,400 accidental shootings for the eight-year period.
Full Story – HERE
Last time I checked, a person is no longer considered a youth when they turn 18… so why are they including 18 and 19 year olds in the statistics?
Fix your stats Journal Pediatrics, then get back to us.
The DARPA “One Shot” program at the Pentagon was originally aimed to give snipers the power to hit a target from 2000 meters away in winds as high as 40 miles per hour. In the first phases of the 3-year-old program, shooters used prototype rifles dressed with lasers and fancy computer hardware to do damage from 1,100 meters away in 18-mile-an-hour winds. The scope-mounted lasers can “see” wind turbulence in the path of the bullet and feed the data to computers, enabling real-time calculation of — and compensation for — the wind-blown trajectory. The agency is looking for 15 ultra precise sniper scopes to put in shooters’ hands by next year.
Full Story – Wired
More info at DARPA – HERE
I wonder when this will be coming to the consumer market? :P On second thought, hitting the target every time with no effort would completely take the fun out of shooting.
The article in Wired mentions the cost at $7 million…. that seems like a steal of a deal if they can actually get this type of system to work for that amount of money. A lot of lives potentially will be saved.
Actually its a Glock key chain, but still pretty funny.
The Desert Eagle just doesn’t do it for me. It’s bulky, incredibly heavy, and very expensive. Yea you can get it in the big boy .50AE caliber, but I don’t really see the purpose of that either. You are supposed to be using your handgun as a first method of defense, or as they say to “get to your rifle”. I know it’s a good gun, but I just think that there are better options for most applications.
Yea it’s just a photoshop… but really, “if you build it they will come” I think definitely holds true again in this case.
You can check out the Desert Eagles over at Magnum Research – HERE
Being a Minnesota company as well, I definitely support Magnum Research and would like a few of their other guns. That new .380 Micro Desert eagle is intriguing, and they have some nice looking rifles based off the Remington 700 platform which I am definitely interested in.
