| From: | Gurth gurth@******.nl |
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| Subject: | APDS |
| Date: | Wed, 24 Feb 1999 12:03:42 +0100 |
the street was...
> Hmmm... the only problem would be that the gun would have to have a way of
> knowing what type of ammo you've loaded. Now, I can't see the gun being able
> to examine the bullet, so that leaves two ways of identifying the ammo type:
> 1) smart clips, that can talk to the gun and tell it what type of ammo it
> thinks it is loaded with.
In which case you'd have to program the clip as it's being loaded with the
rounds, which is doable except it gives trouble when you put different
types of ammunition into a single clip. It is a bit impractical, unless
you combine it with #3 (below).
> 2) the user of the gun sends a mental command to the gun while he/she is
> inserting the ammo. I'd say that, with a bit of practise, this would be an
> automatic reflex of loading the ammo.
3) Put a code on the bullet or the casing (the bullet would be best, so
you can re-use the casing for another type of ammo if you want) that gets
read when the round is loaded into the chamber. In essence, this is what's
done today: a red bullet tip indicates tracer, a black one is for armor-
piercing, and so on. All it'd need is a scanner in the gun that checks the
color(s) of the bullet.
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