Word: guns
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Just spotted a suspicious looking person wearing shades and a trench coat hiding out behind Sever with what looked like a gun? Or someone crouching in the bushes of Quincy courtyard clasping a giant foam noodle? No need to get weirded out and call HUPD—FlyBy assures you (with reasonable certainty) that these people aren’t hitmen or lunatics, but are simply engaged in the game of Assassins...
...final kill was “epic,” recounts winner Saul U. Gorman '09. After waiting over an hour outside his target’s locked door, Gorman finally managed to shoot a bullet from his dart gun through the narrow gap between the door and the carpet, hitting his unsuspecting victim's foot and earning eternal glory. Now that’s a true assassin...
...caliber gun and improved scope could employ "fire and forget" technologies including "fin-stabilized projectiles, spin-stabilized projectiles, internal and/or external aero-actuation control methods, projectile guidance technologies, tamper proofing, small stable power supplies, and advanced sighting, optical resolution and clarity technologies." In other words, bullets that, once fired at a specific target, fly themselves into it by changing shape. The new gun should be no heavier than the combined 46-lb. weight of the current $11,500 M107 sniper rifle and all its associated gear (including ammo, tripod, scope and slide rules for target calculations). (See pictures...
DARPA says the Pentagon needs the vastly improved rifle because the use of snipers has ballooned from 250 to 800 annually. The sharpshooters require extensive and expensive training - all of which could be reduced with a better gun. Snipers "are unable to take a shot the vast majority of the time" because of wind or other weather factors, and a lack of confidence in their ability to hit the target or flee if detected. Those shortcomings could be greatly reduced by the new longer-range rifle. How much longer range? "Specific system performance objectives (e.g., range, accuracy and target speed...
...contract for the container ship is still up for bids. The commercial shipping line that wins the Marine Corps' prepo contract must be prepared to outfit its ship with heavy gun mounts, decontamination facilities for nuclear radiation and chemical spills and a repaint or name change...