For those of us who have been playing First Person Shooter games for a while know how it feels to be on the receiving end of someone using a dreaded Aimbot, getting easy hits off you. But what if our men and women in uniform could do that on real battlefields? Lockheed Martin MS2 in conjunction with DARPA funding are aiming, (no pun intended), to do just that. The technology that’s combined in the ‘shooters’ reticle will take all the measurements needed such as ballistic calculation, crosswinds, environmental conditions and distance to display the aimpoint offset through the scope to give a true one hit kill. In laments terms the ‘red dot’ you see in the scope will move to where you need to shoot giving the soldier an instant acquisition of a fast moving target. Called the “DARPA oneshot program”, this new electro-optical tech was created on the foundation of fiber lasers. Fiber laser is a laser in which the active gain is an optical fiber doped with rare-earth elements - Wikipedia. They are also related to doped fiber amplifiers which provide light amplification without lasing. Meaning these new ‘sights’ will work in both light and full darkness. All of this technology is of course miniaturized to fit the scopes of both the shooter and spotter which is provided through Aculight Corp. which is now owned by Lockheed Martin. The one shot program is, if you haven’t guessed already, classified so all the details aren’t readily available, however Lockheed Martin MS2 (Mission Systems & Sensors) will be deploying 15 prototypes for calibers .308 and .338 by next October.
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