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Message no. 1
From: Dust <rogan@*******.BERGEN.ORG>
Subject: Laser sight on Lasers
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 14:45:26 -0400
I was wondering if you could smartlink or put a laser sight on the Ares MP
laser.

Dust *ducks while people scream and hoot munchkin at him*
Message no. 2
From: NightLife <habenir@******.SAN.UC.EDU>
Subject: Re: Laser sight on Lasers
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 15:41:29 -0400
At 02:45 PM 6/2/97 -0400, you wrote:
>I was wondering if you could smartlink or put a laser sight on the Ares MP
>laser.

Yep.

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Message no. 3
From: L Canthros <lobo1@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Laser sight on Lasers
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 22:58:05 EDT
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997 14:45:26 -0400 Dust <rogan@*******.BERGEN.ORG> writes:
>I was wondering if you could smartlink or put a laser sight on the
>Ares MP
>laser.

Sure. Why not. Not like any player I can think of would ever be able to
easily get ahold of a laser. Shouldn't make too much difference, heck!
You could probably smartlink the sucker.

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Message no. 4
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Laser sight on Lasers
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 09:17:36 +0100
Dust said on 14:45/ 2 Jun 97...

> I was wondering if you could smartlink or put a laser sight on the Ares MP
> laser.

If anything it would work better, provided the sight is aligned exactly
with the laser. Projectiles fried from guns have this annoying tendency
to fall to the earth the further they get from your gun, for which a
smartlink would have to compensate. A laser OTOH goes in a straight line
all the way (don't anyone start nitpicking about slight deviations due to
gravity, for practical purposes it's a straight line, okay? :)

Adding a laser sight is very easy to do by lowering the power output of
the main laser: instead of letting it pump a few megawatt (or whatever)
into the target every timethe trigger is pulled, give it a two-stage
trigger: pull it a bit and you get a low-power beam that can be used to
aim, and once that's on target you squeeze the trigger all the way and
the same beam suddenly becomes a lot more powerful...

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Message no. 5
From: Marcin Serkies <yasiu@******.COM>
Subject: Re: Laser sight on Lasers
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 13:28:26 +0200
At 02:45 PM 6/2/97 -0400, you wrote:
>I was wondering if you could smartlink or put a laser sight on the Ares MP
>laser.

Why not ??? it`s like any other gun. Maybe u have to calibrate it in other
way than machine gun but it should work...

c-ya

yasiu
Message no. 6
From: "Arno R. Lehmann" <arlehma@***.NET>
Subject: Re: Laser sight on Lasers
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 23:45:13 +0200
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997 09:17:36 +0100, Gurth wrote:

>If anything it would work better, provided the sight is aligned exactly
>with the laser. Projectiles fried from guns have this annoying tendency
>to fall to the earth the further they get from your gun, for which a
>smartlink would have to compensate.

I always assumed the combination of smartlink and gun would compensate
this based on the characteristics of the gun or the bullet, ie bullet
weight and speed, perhaps even recoil. This would be something like
with modern cameras (like the nikon ones which I know): there is some
information exchange between the camera's body and the objective about
shutter and focal length, so that teh camera knows about the current
objective. With smartlinks, the gun would inform the smartlink
processor about typical bullet speeds and weights.

Problems would arise if you loaded some kind of ammo that is far from
typical. I don't know anything about weapons, so I don't know how
likely this would be, but I'm sure it is possible.


>A laser OTOH goes in a straight line
>all the way (don't anyone start nitpicking about slight deviations due to
>gravity, for practical purposes it's a straight line, okay? :)

And with lasers the information the smartlink system receives would
just be correct. No problem at all.

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Message no. 7
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Laser sight on Lasers
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 10:59:35 +0100
Arno R. Lehmann said on 23:45/ 3 Jun 97...

> >If anything it would work better, provided the sight is aligned exactly
> >with the laser. Projectiles fried from guns have this annoying tendency
> >to fall to the earth the further they get from your gun, for which a
> >smartlink would have to compensate.
>
> I always assumed the combination of smartlink and gun would compensate
> this

That's what I assume too, since a smartlink gives a -2 at all ranges. If
it didn't compensate, the modifier should be better at Short range than at
Extreme, for example Short -3, Medium -2, Long -1, and Extreme -0, or some
other kind of range-based modifier.

> based on the characteristics of the gun or the bullet, ie bullet weight
> and speed, perhaps even recoil. This would be something like with modern
> cameras (like the nikon ones which I know): there is some information
> exchange between the camera's body and the objective about shutter and
> focal length, so that teh camera knows about the current objective. With
> smartlinks, the gun would inform the smartlink processor about typical
> bullet speeds and weights.

It would have to know the type of round currently loaded into the chamber
to be able to pass that information to the smartlink. Barcodes on
cartridge cases anyone? (Hey, they're used in the Leclerc MBT's
autoloader, why not in a smartlinked gun?) This could pose another problem
for people reloading ammo: make sure you put the right kind of bullet in
the right cartridge case so the barcode matches :)
Of course, if all the ammo types that can be fired by a gun are
ballistically very similar (within certain parameters) that sort of tech
wouldn't be necessary and all ammo would use the same smartlink setting.

> Problems would arise if you loaded some kind of ammo that is far from
> typical. I don't know anything about weapons, so I don't know how
> likely this would be, but I'm sure it is possible.

It has mainly to do with bullet shape, bullet mass, and bullet velocity
AFAIK. For example, if the gun normally fires lightweight, streamlined
bullets at high velocity, then firing a heavy, non-streamlined bullet at
low velocity would throw off the smartlink's aim.

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