Laser sighting systems

Mark F. Cook writes:

>Personally, my feeling is that by the time laser weapons come
>into wide use as individual defense weapons, they will include
>advanced aiming devices (i.e. gyro-stablized scopes with
>electronically enhanced imaging capablities). Once this happens, then
>there WILL be no different between aiming a pistol vs. a rifle.
>IMPORTANT NOTE: if you assume that this IS, in fact, the way lasers
>are rigged, then Brent is right and Adrian is wrong.

>Anyway, given the current technology available in the way of IR
>and Starlight scopes, plus the advent of the steady-cam harness so
>widely used in the movie industry, I have to believe that in one more
>Tech. Level, these advancements will be small enough to completely
>incorporate into a standard, sidearm-sized weapon.

>        Mark F. Cook (Ye Old Weapon-smith)

     I couldn't agree more! As I work as a educational video producer,
I can give you a couple of ideas on how this might work(?).
     One of the problems facing users of the new light weight
camcorders is that they are SO light that they are hard to hold
steady. So the industry is (and in some cases, has) developed a
simplified steadying system. The basic concept is that instead of
steadying the entire camera, you steady the beam of light going into
the camera by means of a very small, lightweight, gyroscopicly
stabilized mirror. Now, swap the light going Into the camcorder for
the light Leaving a laser, and you have a VERY stable weapon. Couple
it to either a visible or IR laser pointer (similar to those in use
today on SWAT and sniper rifles) and you have a weapon with virtual
pointblank accuracy EVERY TIME!
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        Bruce T. Ritchie ([email removed]) AKA: Zben Blaine
        Plymouth State College
        Plymouth, N.H. USA
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