I think the distance from the origin is really the biggest problem here. The sound from the firing of a weapon comes from the weapon, regardless of it's trajectory. The problem I guess is that the origin may not be located in an area controlled by friendlies.
-Cameron On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Greg Morphis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah I've seen something on Future Weapons where they can pinpoint a > shot fired from a gun.. it only takes 1 shot and they know.. > However there are some differences here.. Gun's shoot lateral (minus > the subtle drop due to gravity). The technology used to locate this > uses highly sensitive speakers in different directions and heights to > calculate where the shot came from and approximate distance. > But mortars are lobbed.. they have a high arc trajectory.. I think > predicting these would be very difficult.. especially fired at a good > distance... > > > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Cameron Childress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Yeah, it looks like that's the case to me as well. The explosion seems > to > > come from the base of the mortar launcher. I do find it very > interesting > > that certain weapons fire sources can be triangulated, but the comment > that > > it requires three rounds fired is puzzling in this day of high > technology. > > Seems with enough electronics you should be able to triangulate in just > one > > shot. > > > > -Cameron > > > > > > On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Bruce Sorge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Although I found great joy in seeing this POS blown up, I tend to > agree > > > with the author that it was more likely bad ammo or an improperly > fused > > > round. But still it was enjoyable to watch. Guess Allah was not > feeling > > > very gracious that day. > > > > > > Bruce > > > > > > Cameron Childress wrote: > > > > A little interesting ad-hoc analysis of anti-mortar and other > weapons in > > > > Iraq and some video to go with it. Figured some of the military > and > > > former > > > > military folks on the list might enjoy it. > > > > > > > > http://hillbillyrave.blogspot.com/2008/05/shot-out.html > > > > > > > > -Cameron > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:259792 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
